Education interventions in this sector include construction and rehabilitation of schools, training of teaches, vocational skills training, literacy numeracy formal education and pastoral education. Candlelight has vocational training centers in Hargeisa, Burao and Erigavo, over the past 19 years thousands of youth have graduated from these centers run by the organization with well-equipped.
Major areas of focus include:
– Running and supporting youth vocational training centres in Burao, Erivago and Hargeisa
– Running and supporting formal education
– Promotion of girl-child education through provision of scholarships for displaced, poor and orphaned girls;
– Conducting motivational speeches in the schools
– Advocacy on gender awareness and education;
– Provision of primary education for pastoralist children through mobile schools, camel library and audio radio teaching program.
– Increasing employment opportunity through creation of small business for students
The following projects are on-going and completed education field projects
Currently Somali people are realizing the importance of educating and investing in their girls. This can be attributed to a number of factors, including the prominence of women’s role in the economic circles as breadwinners and their crucial and untiring struggle to keep the families together and make ends meet […]
Youth and unemployment is one of the challenges facing Somaliland, in the recently developed National Youth Policy of Somaliland, the Ministry of Planning stated that the youth in Somaliland constitute around 70% of the population and although there are many problems faced by youth, unemployment is among the top challenges. If this issue is not tackled, […]
Currently Somali people are realizing the importance of educating and investing in their girls. This can be attributed to a number of factors, including the prominence of women’s role in the economic circles as breadwinners and their crucial and untiring struggle to keep the families together and make ends meet with meagre resources. […]
Candlelight secondary school which has been in operation since 1995 is one of the most popular schools in Togdheer region which provides secondary education. Due to the quality of education and teachers’ teaching experience and qualifications, the school used to attract the attention of the public as well as the […]
Pastoralist communities make up a large portion of the Somali population. Most pastoral children in Somaliland do not have access to any form of education. Basic Education for Pastoralist Children Project in Sanaag region was a program that ran during 2013. The aim of the program was to provide quality, […]
