Films From the Field

See the Work, Not Just the Numbers

Short films recorded in the villages and settlements where Lifeline Gedo works — water points, clinics, cooperatives, fodder distributions and hydroponic systems, filmed on site with the communities who use them.

01

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Improving Access to Safe Water and Sanitation in Somalia

Somalia Humanitarian Fund · Daynille IDP settlements, Banadir

Water and sanitation for displaced households in the dense settlements around Daynille, where safe water is the difference between a settlement and an outbreak.

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Bringing Safe Water to the Baygal Community

BRCiS · Gedo region

What a restored water point changes for a community that had been walking for it.

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Safe Water Transforms Lives in Shimbirole

BRCiS · Shimbirole, Bardhere district

Shimbirole is one of the programme's anchor communities — and the village behind several of the stories on our Impact page.

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02

Health & Nutrition

Delivering Lifesaving Community Healthcare in Shimbirole

Caafimaad Plus · in partnership with Concern Worldwide

Community health delivery under the ECHO-funded Caafimaad Plus consortium, reaching households that have no clinic of their own.

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03

Livelihoods & Resilience

Empowering Cooperative Farmers in Somalia

BRCiS · Bardhere district

Farmer cooperatives organising, training and taking produce to market together.

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Building Resilient Farming Communities in Somalia

BRCiS · Gedo region

Climate-smart practice on smallholder land — the work that decides whether the next shock becomes an emergency.

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Protecting Livestock During Drought

BRCiS · fodder support, Bardhere district

Fodder produced by local contracted farmers and distributed to pastoralist households — the intervention behind Tamima's story.

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04

Climate-Smart Agriculture

Growing Food Without Soil

GIZ · hydroponics, Gedo region

Soil-free, water-efficient growing in a region where drought has made conventional farming unreliable.

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Every film above is a project delivered by Somali teams in Gedo.

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