Somaliland
Our deepest footprint: three schools, a vocational training centre, the ECE and Government Primary Schools programmes, Pharo Dams, the NCD programme, and our concrete and machine-rental ventures.
Where the model was built.
Somaliland has been Pharo’s proving ground since 2012. It is where all three missions run at once, and where we have learned the most about what direct delivery really demands.
Our schools in Hargeisa and Sheikh sit alongside the Pharo Hargeisa International School, now under construction. Beyond our own classrooms, the ECE and Government Primary Schools programmes strengthen the public system, and our water programme captures and stores water across a drought-exposed landscape.
It is also where we have learned hard commercial lessons about when to persist with a project and when to exit, and the discipline of judging each one honestly.
Meet the team
The country leadership team in Somaliland.
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Country Director
Leads all Pharo operations in Somaliland.
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Head of Education
Pharo Schools and the public-school programmes.
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Head of Water Development
Dams, rural supply and monitoring.
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Pharo Ventures CEO
The commercial portfolio in country.
Vocational Training Centre
Technical and vocational training with construction-sector internships.
NCD programme
Non-communicable disease care, transitioning to Hargeisa General Hospital.
Concrete & machine rentals
Ready-mix concrete and an affordable-housing formwork pilot.
Specific people. Specific places.
ECE / Hargeisa, Somaliland
Half a snack, pocketed.
A boy in our Early Childhood Education programme pockets half of his daily snack each morning. He carries it home for his brother, who did not win a place in the lottery. The lottery is a fact of access. The pocketed snack is a fact of family. We hold them both, and we are widening the programme so the lottery matters less.
Hargeisa / 2024 · ECE programme — Read more →
What the work adds up to.
Partner with us in Somaliland.
Co-funding, operator roles and partnership enquiries.