Stories

En décembre 2013, le virus Ebola a fait ses premières victimes dans le sud-est du pays, puis s’est propagé aux pays voisins. Cette épidémie est devenue la plus grave épidémie d’Ebola de l’histoire, infectant plus de 28 000 personnes.

In Uganda, the RISE project supports farmer groups through the Village Saving and Loans Association approach to enable greater resilience and self-reliance among both refugee and host communities.

Sadokat, an entrepreneur in Uzbekistan, is a professional hand-made doll-maker. She participated in a workshop that helped her to acquire necessary skills for selling handmade products as an entrepreneur. The workshop was organised as part of the Silk Road Heritage Corridors programme.

Facilitated by the Enhanced EU-ASEAN Regional Dialogue Instrument (E-READI), the EU and ASEAN held the first EU-ASEAN High-Performace Computing Virtual School in 2021. The virtual school connected top international experts in the field and students.

The countries in the Horn of Africa are places of origin, transit and destination for over 19 million people on the move. Ten organisations that run shelters in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda came together for a shelter study tour in Kampala.

An EU-funded ILO project works closely with partners towards the prevention and reduction of unacceptable forms of work in the Thai fishing and seafood processing sectors. This is the story of one fisher, Prak Song.

GET.invest and the Electrification Financing Initiative (ElectriFI) are supported by the EU External Investment Plan to help entrepreneurs and citizens access electricity.

In Somalia, the European Union aims to improve young people's employability, in particular for women and girls. To achieve this, there needs to be more quality training in promising economic sectors, such as information and communication technology.

Somalia is on a path to recover from decades of civil war. However, climate change poses one of the biggest challenges to the country’s stability. The EU supports the Somali youth through education to develop solutions to these pressing issues.