SOMALIA: Human trafficking crime rings continue to exploit women & girls

Somali refugee girls

WNN MDG Stories (WNN) SOMALIA: Amina Shakir (not her real name) fled the drought and famine in Somalia for a better life in Kenya. But she did so illegally, placing her faith in the hands of a criminal network headed by Mukhalis, or agents in Swahili. In the end her faith was misplaced as she [...]

Somalia sanitary pad project gives IDP women new livelihoods

Somali woman sews sanitary pads in production room

WNN MDG Stories (WNN) Galkayo, SOMALIA: After dropping out of school in the sixth grade to help her mother, Fartun Abdi Hashi, 22, was given a second chance at earning an income with a sanitary pads project. Hashi’s family arrived at the Doro camp for the internally displaced in Galkayo, central Somalia, when she was [...]

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