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SFS Wrapped up Successful Youth Skills Training in July

Last week, 170 young Puntlanders completed a six-month youth skills training course with SFS. To prepare them to enter the workforce, SFS trained these 15- to 24-year-olds in a variety of practical skills, including communication, accounting and technology. SFS has already placed almost a quarter of the participants in paid jobs, another quarter as interns to continue developing their skills, and has commitments from local organizations to place another 30 percent of the young people in paid positions or internships shortly.
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SFS Raises Its Profile in Nairobi

One year after opening its liaison office in Kenya, Somali Family Services brought its partners and friends together for a reception at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi to further raise awareness of its contributions to the political and social development of Puntland, Somalia. At the reception on June 17, 2011, those close to SFS’s work learned more about the variety of its programming, while newer friends who were less familiar with the organization’s work were
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