FGM/C and Food Security Project in Sheikh District

The Candlelight-KNH Abandoning FGM/C through Community Empowerment and Food Security Improvement project aims at accelerating total abandonment of FGM/C in Sheikh District, Sahil Region Somaliland over the period 2017 – 2021. The project will be implemented in five villages within the jurisdiction of Sheikh District namely Cagaaray, Himan, Dawdama, Hudiso […]


Milk Preservation and Hygiene Practices Training

Reducing vulnerability and building community resilience to climate change effects in Togdheer and Sahil regions, Somaliland  Project  which has been implemented by Candlelight with support from its partner organization Kindermothilfe (KNH), The three year project aims at increasing the resilience of 18,000 resources – poor aggro pastoralists and pastoralists in the […]


Community Animal Health Workers Training

The keeping of livestock forms is the main livelihood for pastoral communities in Somaliland. However, conflicts, insecurity and recurrent cycles of droughts have continued to disrupt availability of animal health services to these communities. These expose the pastoral communities to great vulnerabilities of livestock diseases. During the past few years, […]


Climate Adaption Training

Candlelight is one  of NGOs who is involved  food security  project  in Magallo cad and Magalo Qaloc villages, Borama District Awdal  region,  The  local communities  in these village  are  pure  farmers  who produce   variety  of crops  for  their  family dietary  as well as  selling  extra crops. The  major  crops  normally  […]


Small Business Management Training

Development Fund  with partnership with Candlelight supported Strengthening Agro pastoral and Pastoral  economic project  in Magalo Cad  village  through providing revolving loan fund and business management skills training to the project beneficiaries of fifteen  women by this year. Most of the women’s in Somaliland are heads house-hold or bread winners […]


Youth Vocational Training Project

Youth vocational project seeks to transform employment prospects of the beneficiaries through skills training specifically tailored to their needs. It is also intends to enhance their chances of employability and income generation by empowering them with skills of high market demand. The training have been conducted at Candlelight Youth Development […]


AWD WASH RESPONSE PROJECT

To make sure community receives sustainable clean water with clean sources, Candlelight and OXFAM field team earlier thought to establish water kiosks at mostly populated project target areas where there were no sources of clean water. From that idea, assessment was made whether there are available water pipelines with enough […]


Sustainable Agronomic Practices Training

  CANDLE LIGHT has organized workshop on agronomic practices It has been conducted and facilitated by agronomist. The training workshop was started and continued from   9-12, June 2017, the training participants were 40 members   twenty of them were women,   all trainees  were  come from  two villages  Magaalo-Cad and Magaalo –qaloc […]


Capacity Building Training Program

Candlelight-KNH partnership project aims in abandoning FGM/C through Community Empowerment and Food Security Improvement in Saaxil Region. The project complements the government efforts, NAFIS NETWORK, KNH and International/Regional Institutions working to eradicate FGM/. Thus the project staff needed capacity building training to run the project smoothly. Therefore Candlelight organized four […]


Anniversary Independence Day

His Excellence the president, Mr. Siilaanyo has declared that the theme for the 26th anniversary of Somaliland independence  day, on 18th May 2017 is to “stand together with drought affected families” through fundraising to revive the lost livelihood of the pastoral communities and tree planting events. Firstly, the fundraising activities […]