Stories of Change

Successful case studies


Zamzam’s Story

Zamzam Yasin Ali, a 30 year old mother of six children, lives in Yooco village in Sool region. Zamzam is a pastoralist woman and her family derives its income from livestock, she had a problem of getting water for her family daily life uses. It was difficult for women to […]


Haweya’s Story

Haweya Ismail Jama, a 60-year-old mother and grandmother of eleven, lives in Gaacid village in Sanaag region. Her family derives its income from a mixture of farming activities and business — planting grains on their hectare of land and keeping livestock with small business.  Business has been part of her […]


Case Story of Ahmed

“Zero Tolerance of FGM” #Ahmed_Mohamoud_Hassan (Āhmēd Ñøūr), is a second year student at New Generation University College in Buroa campus, department of Public Health. He is the secretary of the University’s student union and one of the energetic students among his team. He shared with us a very heartbroken case story, […]


Case Story of Hafsa

“I can do everything” #Hafsa_Farah_Saed, a young social activist, midwifery student from New Generation University in Buroa, started her campaign of anti-early age marriage while she was standard five (5) in her primary school. She came across many different objections and challenges as she encourages young girl-students not to marry […]


Case Study seven

Ubah is a mother of 7 children and running to cover their daily needs. She lives in hargeisa particularly in M.Mooge which is an IDP area. Ubah produce a traditional Somali perfume (Uunsi) in her the house, ubah package the uunsi in small bottles, so she make per month36 bottles.  […]


Case Study six

Bahja is a mother of 6 children who is member of Hoobaan Self Help Group (SHG), before joining this SHG she was very poor and had nothing to cover the daily life of her children; she save within the group and she has taken 200,000 S/L SH from the group […]


Case Study five

Roda is a mother of seven children who is a member of Hoodaale Self Help Group (SHG) in Mohamed Moge Village, she has small grocery in Mohamed Mooge market, she had nothing about Economic resource before joining in the SHG; her husband is mentally ill, the children had lacked food, […]


Case Study four

Saado is a member of Tawfiiq Self Help Group (SHG) who lives in Statehouse IDP, she is a mother of 6 children she has joined in this SHG on November 2015 and received 200,000 SL/Sh from the group then she started business of animal fattening; she has bought 4 sheep […]


Case Study three

Hamda is a young lady who is a member of Rooble Self Help Group (SHG) in Mohamed Mooge village, before joining the SHG she had nothing to do, she is illiterate in reading and writing but has a tailoring skill,  her family was  very poor, she was not able to […]


Case Study two

Hawa is an elderly mother who lives in hargeisa particularly in M.Mooge IDP settlement,  she is a member of Aflax Self Help Group (SHG) that was established on May 2014 which is  one of the strongest SHGs that Mudaraba musharaka system was introduced and also applied;  after joining of the […]