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Temporary Learning Centre in Dhusamareeb provides a haven for displaced children

Dhusamareeb, 6 May 2024: In Somalia, one of the most common traumatic events for children is displacement. Being torn from their homes, friends, and lives can leave deep emotional scars that are difficult to heal. The traumatic events they have been exposed to leave invisible scars that can prevent children from a...

14 December 2023

A School Submerged in Nature’s Wrath

Baidoa, 14th December 2023: In Bodan camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Baidoa, Somalia, there once stood a temporary learning centre where young minds flourished, dreams were nurtured, and friendships were forged. The school was a symbol of hope and knowledge until one fateful day when disaster struc...

14 December 2023

Building Bridges of Knowledge among children displaced by climate change

In Somalia, where drought and displacement has become a harsh reality for many, there lives a young boy named Abdullahi Mohamed. Abdullahi was just eight years old when his family decided to flee their home on the outskirts of Baidoa due to a prolonged drought that had ravaged their small village and wiped out all...

04 December 2023

Building dreams, one lesson at a time

After a one-hour drive on the rugged terrains of Southern Somalia, we reach an IDP camp on the outskirts of Dollow town. The orange plastic sheets and the sticks that make up the makeshift shelters in the area can be seen from a distance. In between the shelters, there is a temporary learning center that stands ou...

11 October 2023

Meet the young teacher changing lives of displaced children

In the Southern Somalia district of Dollow, near the border with Ethiopia and Kenya, a crowded classroom is alive with laughter, conversations, and chuckles. The teacher, Sureer Farah, is engaging children, of which many are internally displaced people (IDPs) that reside in Kahary IDP Camp. She is teaching them to...

28 February 2023

Temporary Learning Space Provides Hope for Displaced Children in Baidoa

Every morning 11-year-old Adan Maalin leaves the makeshift shelter he stays in with his mother and four siblings in Baidoa, to make his way to Deebwin internally displaced persons (IDP) school, which is a temporary learning space in the camp where he is enrolled. At school is where Adan feels at home, feels safe a...

23 January 2023

Alternative basic education programme rekindles learning opportunities

In the Hiran region of Southern Somalia, conflict makes it difficult for people to access enough food. This, coupled with a severe drought, has made life extremely difficult for many families. Nasro Cali Ibrahim, a 9-year-old girl, is one such individual affected by these harsh conditions in Beletweyne. She and he...

07 December 2022

Education brings on feelings of normalcy and hope

Three years ago, Kowsar Warsame used to live with her father and four siblings in a small village outside of Belethawa town, Somalia, where they had a herd of livestock. However, the prolonged drought in Somalia devastated the family farm, and they had to leave their home to find food and water. Her mother passed ...

30 November 2022

School enrollment increasing in rural Somaliland

Somaliland - Twelve-year-old Rahma Abdirashid is among more than one hundred students enrolled under the Education Cannot Wait programme at the Qoryaley primary school, in rural Togdheer. Like most of the students supported by the programme, she remained at home to support her parents with domestic chores like coo...

02 November 2022

Children access education for the first time in their lives at UNICEF supported schools in Somalia

Baidoa, Somalia: The chorus of young voices rises in cadence, a sweet melody of six dozen children, singing the letters of the Somali alphabet – that they just mastered one week ago. Standing before the blackboard and leading this rustic symphony at the Mustaqbal Integrated Primary School is a shy 10-year-old...

14 October 2022

UNICEF provides package of education services for children displaced by drought

Across the Horn of Africa, the ongoing drought has had devastating consequences for millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. In Central and South-West Somalia, already battered by recurrent droughts and the conflict which has lasted for over three decades, more than a million people have been displaced b...

11 September 2022

USAID Contributes $1.5 Million to UNICEF to Respond to the Impact of the Drought on Somali Children’s Education

11 September 2022, MOGADISHU – USAID/Somalia Mission Director Jeffrey N. Bakken and UNICEF Somalia Country Representative Wafaa Saeed signed an agreement for a USAID contribution of US$1.5 million to UNICEF towards an Emergency Education Drought Response Programme that responds to the impact of the drought on...