In their own words
Stories from the people we work with
A handful of stories from across our projects, told by the people who lived them and published with their consent.
Cross-Border Community Resilience Activity
“To empower women is to empower our nation”
Sangabo Ibrahim Hasan was one of 30 women trained at the Bokolow displacement site in financial literacy, group dynamics and leadership. She runs a traditional tailoring business and a small shop selling clothes and drinks, and that income pays for her household and her children’s schooling. She wants to expand it and to train other women and young people — there is no vocational skills centre at the site.
Her recommendations to us were practical: start-up kits so a larger training centre could open, loans so young men and women can learn a marketable skill, and support that lasts long enough to build a household that can survive the next shock.
Cross-Border Community Resilience Activity
“This is a half capturing of support”
Madam Nuria, a teacher in Dollo Ado, spoke for the girls at her school because they were too shy to talk about menstruation in public. She confirmed the dignity kits reached the girls who needed them and kept them in class through days they would previously have missed — but she was direct about the limit of what one round of kits could do:
“This is a half capturing of support, but it could have been good to reach all adolescent student girls.”
The Garre and Dogodia are brothers, the same descendants on one clan tree, and they always fight and kill each other for no reason… Let us implement the decision from this venue.
Mohumed Abdalle, Dogodia clan elder — at the Moyale cross-border dialogue, Cross-Border Community Resilience Activity
This program has opened my eyes and transformed my thinking. I have gained not just knowledge, but the confidence to lead and inspire. I now carry the responsibility to share what I’ve learned and contribute to building a brighter future for the next generation.
Bishara Abdikani — incentive teacher, Bokolmayo camp, Brighter Outcomes Ethiopia
These changes happen because people keep showing up
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