A New Start Through Business
We met Ayaan, hawking her tie-dyed clothes to fellow IDPs at her displacement camp in Belet-Xaawo. Each day, Ayaan weaves her way through the camp, her colorful fabrics catching the eye of fellow women IDPs. She walks with a sense of purpose, her arms and shoulders full of colorful tie-dyed fabrics. Ayaan braves the scorching […]
Tie and Dye for Self-reliance
From a very young age, Hamdi’s passion for learning new crafts and exploring innovative ideas set her apart from her peers. When she joined NoFYL’s tie and dye skills training at the women and girls’ safe space in Belet-Xaawo, Hamdi exhibited an insatiable thirst for knowledge. When we met her, she was focused intently as […]
Leave No One Behind: How NoFYL is Empowering Disabled Women through Tie & Dye Skills Training
Deeqa, Fardowsa, and Leyla share a few things in common: they are disabled and are survivors of gender-based violence. Their experience of living with disability meant they were no strangers to adversity. Displaced women with disabilities often face stigma and discrimination in their communities. Due to their specific needs, they may also face social exclusion […]
CASH FOR WORK: Building Resilience & Strengthening Sustenance.
Murjaan Aweys sits uncomfortably across from us in a small shop, reclining on a chair and sipping carefully spiced ginger tea, one swig after another. The ray from the sunlight was flickering through the holes from his metal-wrought shop. His calm mien was occasionally disrupted by the loud sounds of his hammering of tin cans, straightening them to be deftly used with wire mesh to make mouse/rat traps. Murjaan, an internally displaced person from Rabi Suge site in Kaxda district, is earning a living selling mouse/rat traps made from the tin cans and wire mesh.
Livelihood Support – Cash for Work
For Abdi Daud, 39, father of five, August is the best month in 2019. This is the month he joined other men and women from his community to work in their camp for a cash for work program, and so, according to him, “this is the month where I did not worry about food for my family”. “Before I was a laborer and would wake up every morning with my tools and look for any work in the market. I would get back home at night and just wait to do the same thing the following day”.
