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Entrepreneurship helps escape the cycle of poverty

The online training at Fida and the Northern European Business Academy prepares Burundians for entrepreneurship. It has already given rise to a wide range of new businesses.
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A new path for a former child soldier

Florence Akidi was abducted as a child. After her release, she joined a program aimed at former child soldiers, which enabled her to deal with her traumas. Eventually, she became the female leader of her village community.
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A woman stands in a purple dress front of Maisha Poa Centre.
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Maisha Poa offers hope to children living in the streets

An estimated 60,000 children live on the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Poverty, violence at home, parental neglect, family breakups and forced evacuations are some of the reasons why they ended up there.
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Jane escaped female genital mutilation and now she helps women to raise their voice

When Jane Naikumi was nine years old, she fled from her remote home village in Kenya. She was to undergo female genital mutilation. The procedure would make her eligible for marriage.
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The people of Tigray are threatened by extreme hunger in Ethiopia – Fida’s help reaches them

In Tigray, food shortages due to armed conflict and the Corona pandemic have deepened. The UN estimates that more people are suffering from hunger in the Tigray area than anywhere else in the world and the situation is expected to worsen in the coming months.
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New Sunday school program translation brings light to Ethiopian children

The global teaching of Raili Väisänen and Mirjami Ylenius-Kuosmanen began many decades ago in Kenya, and after many stages has now proceeded to neighboring Ethiopia. New language versions of the Sunday School textbooks written by child ministry pioneers are now being completed for use by Pentecostal Churches in Ethiopia.
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Exercise has a healing effect on children

It is important that children who have traumatizing experiences get to recover from these. Fida employee Francis Emechu talks about the work being done for children’s rights in Bidibidi.
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The Ministry for Foreign Affairs provided significant support for Fida’s work in Yemen and Congo

The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs granted Finnish NGOs a total of EUR 10.2 million in support for humanitarian aid projects for 2021.
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Families livelihoods and climate resilience are being developed in Kenya’s coastal villages

Fida, with nine other Finnish development cooperation organizations, participated in the Red Nose fundraising campaign 2020 for the children of the world. With this support families in Kenya can reap a harvest despite the distressing drought in the area.