June 2025
6 June 2025
As we approach the halfway point of the year, May has been a month of sharpening our focus: strengthening leadership, tightening systems and accelerating delivery on the ground.
In Rwanda we appointed our new Country Director, Jannek Hagen. In Somaliland, two new dams were launched in Higlada and Taala-buur, and the Aroori Livestock Centre continues to take shape. In Ethiopia, the edible oil plant in Kotu reached its final stages with the first EFDA inspection completed, and the Assosa school is nearing completion.
In Kenya, a wonderful cultural celebration at our schools showed how Pharo Schools are both globally competitive and locally grounded, and we advanced early work on the creative arts project. We are also recruiting for several key roles, including a Director of the Pharo Schools Network.
Onwards, Thomas Mason, CEO, Pharo Foundation
The Pearson exam centre at Sheikh
Pharo Secondary Sheikh hosts the only certified international examination centre in Somaliland or Somalia, giving students access to internationally recognised qualifications such as IGCSEs and A-Levels.
A healthier future against NCDs
Shared on World Hypertension Day, a look back at the first year of our Centre for NCDs in Hargeisa, tackling the growing burden of high blood pressure and diabetes in Somaliland and East Africa.
Farmforce training in rural Ethiopia
Our team and extension workers were trained on Farmforce, a platform to track and monitor seed cultivation in real time, enhancing traceability and data-driven decisions for the seed oil factory’s sourcing sites.