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          Non-Formal Education: 

The Swiss non-formal education organization has focused its recent interventions among others on the empowerment of women and girls, with the ultimate objective to equally distribute resources, rights and representation among women and men. In 2006, two projects, namely “Skills and Knowledge Training” and “Literacy and Numeracy” contributed towards this objective.

Hinda’s life stands for the life of many young women in Somaliland: Born in a rural village in 1978, she had to take refuge in Ethiopia in the late eighties, when the war between South Somalia and Somaliland ravaged the country for several years. Too young to benefit from education before the flight, life in the refugee camp didn’t offer much space for learning, neither. With no way to go, Hinda and her family stayed in the camp until 2000, when they eventually decided to join other persons who were returning to Hargeisa. In Hargeisa, she, her mother and her five siblings were given a small plot where they could build a shelter. It was in 2002 when Hinda decided to join one of the local NGOs for a literacy and numeracy course supported by Caritas.

Last year she took advantage of a skills training project implemented by Caritas. From the various skills offered to her, Hinda chose to become a tailor. Achieving this goal took her six months of institute based learning and two months of attachment to one of the open market tailors. Instead of remaining an employee, Hinda opted for self employment.

Again with the support from Caritas, she got herself a tailoring machine, which is now inside her hut. Her main customers are the neighbours, whom she had told about this new machine. Her income is still meagre in relative terms; yet, for her family, having twenty extra dollars each week makes a huge difference.

And Hinda has even bigger plans: She is currently taking an English course in the same NGO, so that she can communicate with people from outside Somaliland in the future. Work wise she is considering relocating her business to the open market area: “In the open market area I can reach more customers. At the same time I will keep my neighbours in that they can deliver their cloths for repair in the morning, and I will return them in the evening.”

Even though Hindas early life stands for the life of many young women in Somaliland, she has succeeded with her own will power and the support from a local and an international NGO to break the vicious circle of poverty. As she mentioned on our way out, “knowledge opens many doors, after having accessed basic education, one can go everywhere”.

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