Education Cluster - Somali Observatory for Humanitarian Affairs

Japan provides US$3million to keep Somalia’s drought affected children healthy, in school and protected

Network Editor April 17, 2018 Education Cluster, Health Cluster, NEWS, Protection Cluster 0 746

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Government of Japan is providing generous funding to UNICEF to support children with proper sanitation facilities in schools, keep them in education and provide abused women and children with support services, UNICEF said today. The US$3million grant will, over the course of the next year, help some …

Somali school to teach Turkish as part of curriculum

Network Editor April 10, 2018 Education Cluster, NEWS 0 875

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Turkish language has been added to the curriculum of a school for orphans in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to the Yunus Emre Institute. The idea to introduce Turkish language courses at the school came when Huseyin Caner Akkurt, the institute’s head of the department of …