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COHF is helping communities in Somaliland to recover from natural disasters and conflict to generate income by rehabilitating their productive assets and enhancing their resilience. Our group-based approach that is gender responsive and conflict sensitive, COHF engages young men and women on cash for works as the preferred alternative livelihood option. The approach helps locals build sustainable livelihoods through a phased process of recovery, rebuilding and long-term growth. Our approach also promotes systemic change where we support improving the existing infrastructures such as water catchments to improve water security and building other extension sustainable setups such as contour bands to mitigate soil erosion.
COHF assists vulnerable agricultural communities in Somaliland to pull through from natural disasters, restore their productive lands and engage with markets on equitable terms. We support the transfer of new and improved agricultural practices by providing access to seeds, tools, trainings and extension services.
Using a group-based approach, COHF encourages subsistence farmers to embrace commercial farming as the ideal livelihood option. This helps direct their focus away from conflicts and towards productive income generating activities.
COHF is facilitating pastoralist communities in Somaliland build their resilience against drought and other natural calamities.
Our line of initiative helps vulnerable pastoralists through the provision of livestock inputs such as Mazzicans and animal feed blocks. Livestock owners also gain access to veterinary services through our well-trained, equipped and supervised Community Animal Health staff.
Through an innovative program, our field officers provide technical and extension services to herders, while also building their technical and management capacity. This helps vulnerable pastoral communities transition from dependence on emergency relief to engaging in a vital role in their recovery and prosperity.
In June 2022, COHF partnered with; Focus Women Foundation (the funding partner) to implement a livelihood support project in Eastleigh, Nairobi. The project objective is to enhance households’ income of marginalized women through Income generating activities (IGAs) and capacity building on access to basic social services rights in Eastleigh, Nairobi Kenya with the primary target groups being vulnerable women living in Eastleigh, widows and women heading households.
During the project, we conducted proper Mobilization, Sensitization. Identification and Selection of beneficiaries was also done after assessing the level of vulnerability of the selected communities. Trainings was conducted on Group Formation, Access to Basic Social Services, Business Training (Start-ups and upscale) for the 100 Selected Beneficiaries. We also distributed Cash Grants in support of the IGA.
Candle of Hope Foundation (CoHF) is a multi-faceted women-led organization that has been operational in Kenya and Somaliland since 2016 implementing humanitarian & development initiatives through community-initiated programs that enhance empowerment, sustainability and resilience.
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