Somaliland is the northern region of Somalia, bordered by Ethiopia in the south and west. Just outside the Somaliland capital of Hargeysa, GHNI is helping a group of extremely poor villages with sustainable methods of transformation.

In one village, 75% of the people are blind. We’re trying to figure out what happened. There is no doctor, nurse or healthcare system to help — just our local GHNI partner, doing all he can to assist.

In another Somaliland village, we’ve created a sewing school to help women with HIV/AIDS learn an income-producing trade. After they’re trained, we set them up together, three at a time, in their own shop. They pay back the start-up capital in the first two years, which enables another three-woman shop to get on its feet.

For all the Hargeysa-area villages, we have started programs to train orphans in computer-trade skills, to work toward the reclamation of water dams with the Ministry of Agriculture, and to distribute wheelchairs to children who’ve lost their legs from improvised bombs.

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