Lighting the way for communitybased drought resilience in Somaliland Candlelight supports innovative community-based livelihood schemes to improve drought resilience. Its intervention in Suuqsade shows the potential of harnessing local skills, knowledge and energy.
Candlelight staff carried out distribution of non-food items (NFI) stocks, cash transfer and hygiene training in five project target villages under Sanaag, Togdheer and Sool regions. The selected project beneficiaries were drought effect communities who mostly lost their livestock assets during this severely drought hit in these eastern regions particularly […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Self Help Group Approach (SHG) is a successful instrument for combating poverty in a sustainable way. It empowers the very poor people of the communities socially and economically to live a life of dignity with their families and community. The Self Help Group (SHG) is breakthrough of changing dependency on […]
Last year, 2016, was another big year for Candlelight. The organization has been expanding its grant-making to better address communities’ needs. This has been happening, at a time funds have been shrinking; at a time the non-profit sector in Somaliland has been experiencing hard times and major declining of humanitarian […]
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 […]
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. […]
