Where we work / Somaliland

Somaliland

Our deepest footprint: three schools and a fourth under construction, a vocational training centre, the ECE and Government Primary Schools programmes, Pharo Dams, the NCD programme, and our concrete and machine-rental ventures.

2012
Operating since
279
Staff across the country
1,098
Pharo Schools students
8
Hafir dams

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.
Country Director
Name to confirm
Leads all Pharo operations in Somaliland.
Head of Education
Name to confirm
Pharo Schools and the public-school programmes.
Head of Water Development
Name to confirm
Dams, rural supply and monitoring.
Pharo Ventures CEO
Name to confirm
The commercial portfolio in country.
Education Schools, early years and skills
Water Reliability today, resilience over time
Productivity Health, jobs and commercial ventures
A story from here

Specific people. Specific places.

ECE / Hargeisa, Somaliland
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 →
Our impact in Somaliland

What the work adds up to.

1,098
School students
8
Hafir dams
1,200
ECE students
9,643
NCD patients registered
Engage

Partner with us in Somaliland.

Co-funding, operator roles and partnership enquiries.

Elsewhere in the Pharo Verse Ethiopia → Kenya → Rwanda →