CHILD RIGHTS PROTECTION PROGRAM
Objectives:
- To protect the rights of children by providing capacity
building workshops to local authority, minority and IDP community committees.
- To establish non-formal schools for child education in
minority IDP camps.
- To protect children against trafficking at national level.
- Strengthened capacity of child
protection systems and structures to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect,
exploitation and violence against internally displace children and children
living and working on the streets by December 2013;
- 1,000 IDP and other vulnerable children who have
fled their families and live in IDP camps and the streets of Hargeisa have
access to community based care and protection services in a supportive and
child empowering environment by December 2013;
LIFE SKILLS TRAINING AND ALTERNATIVE BASIC EDUCATION
In 2013, 62 youth i.e. minority and other
vulnerable youth 35 girls and 17 boys have been provided life skills and
vocational training programs under the support project on strengthening capacity of civil
society organizations to provide life skills and vocational training for the
youth funded by Oxfam Novib through Havoyocco in partnership with USWO.
Objectives:
- The aim of this program is
to assist minority youth returnees from refugee camps and enourage them in
contributing to reconsturcion of their homeland with their skills both
educational; as well as, professional.
- To empower young minority
men and women through vocational skills that are in need in the real market.
WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE PROGRAM
Objectives and results:
Access to clean, safe drinking water is increased in Laasciidle MCH,
school and community, in addition to Household water treatment and safe storage
(HWTS) to benefit 2400 people by the end of 4 months.
Result 2: The MCH and
primary school have adequate and properly functioning sanitation facilities
Result3: Five (05) rural villages with 2,400
people have improved their sanitation through achieving open defecation (ODF)
status, use of clean toilets, hand washing with soap, and proper disposal of
garbage by end of 4 months of piloting CLTS.
Result 4: Improved Hygiene knowledge, attitude and practices of 2400 people in
MCH, School and the surrounding community by the end of 4 months.
MIXED MIGRATION PROGRAM
- Awareness
of community and local authorities understanding of the risks/hardships
consequences of irregular migration.
- Exposure
of real risks involved during and after the migrants’ journey.
- 30
minute documentary film developed as a mechanism to the reduction of migration aspirations and disseminating it through national level TV stations and mass
media.
The road to
irregular migration will be a long and devastating one if the level of
awareness and changing peoples’ attitudes towards migration is not expanded
extensively.
The pull and
bush factors that mostly inspire youth to emigrate from home into other
destinations are caused by the followings;
- Lack of regular awareness rising on the risks of
irregular migration.
- Poverty and lack of livelihood skills,
- Lack of high quality education.
- Long remaining unemployed and unchanging
livelihood conditions.
Main Areas of
Intervention:
- Minority rights advocacy program
- IDPs WASH (Water and Sanitation) improvement
- Mixed migration awareness activities
- Child Rights Protection
- Counter trafficking psycho-social counselling
- Minority youth empowerment (free scholarship and employment program)
Gender (gender justice at domestic level).
Compiled by:
Mr. Abshir I.Hassan
Executive Director
Executive Director
USWO Organization
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Mob:+252-2-4402499/4404312 Email: uswo.ed@gmail.com/ uswo
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Hargeisa, Somaliland
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