Jubalandese Charity Center (JCC)Kenya & Somalia

Gallery

From the field.

Moments from our programmes across southern Somalia and northern Kenya — distributions, training and the offices our teams work from every day.

Crowd of residents waiting beside stacked relief sacks at an open-air distribution point — Emergency food distribution in Ras Kambooni following conflict-related displacement.
Ras Kambooni, Lower Juba · 2025
Funded by Adam Smith International, via the Deriswanag Programme

JCC staff handing sacks of grain to families queuing in the sun — Second food distribution in Ras Kambooni.
Ras Kambooni, Lower Juba · 2025
Funded by Adam Smith International, via the Deriswanag Programme

Women seated in a circle with a facilitator recording savings-group contributions — VSLA training for twelve women's solidarity groups across twelve villages in and around Ras Kambooni.
Ras Kambooni, Lower Juba · 2025
Funded by Adam Smith International, via the Deriswanag Programme

Participants writing in exercise books during a classroom session — Literacy and numeracy training for twelve women's solidarity groups in and around Ras Kambooni.
Ras Kambooni, Lower Juba · 2025
Funded by Adam Smith International, via the Deriswanag Programme

Painted single-storey building used as the JCC field office, with staff at the doorway — JCC field office, Ras Kambooni.
Ras Kambooni, Lower Juba · 2025

Painted signboard naming the Jubalandese Charity Center (JCC) at the entrance to its compound — Board in front of the JCC Ras Kambooni compound.
Ras Kambooni, Lower Juba · 2025

Elders and community representatives seated together in an outdoor dialogue session

Community members gathered under shade for an awareness meeting led by field staff

Dry, silted catchment basin with bare cracked soil stretching to a low horizon — Full view of Lawareeg catchment before rehabilitation.

Work crew digging and filling sandbags along the grassy edge of the catchment — Section at edge of the Lawareeg water catchment during rehabilitation.

Reshaped embankment and cleared spillway channel after excavation work — Section of the Lawareeg water catchment after rehabilitation.

Shallow eroded pan of dry red earth with a vehicle parked at the far rim — Full view of Luuqo catchment before rehabilitation.

Villagers with hand tools spreading sheeting and moving soil at the catchment edge — Section at edge of the Luuqo water catchment during rehabilitation.

Smoothly graded catchment floor enclosed by a newly raised earth bund — Section of the Luuqo water catchment after rehabilitation.

Freshly excavated red-earth catchment slope under bare thorn trees

Group carrying jerrycans and tools across an open earthworks site

Completed earth bund curving around a levelled catchment floor, a jerrycan left at its base

Stony, sun-baked ground under heavy grey cloud before excavation begins — Full view of Oondheere catchment before rehabilitation.

Men and women swinging picks and hoes in a cloud of dust along the trench line — Section at edge of the Oondheere water catchment during rehabilitation.

Deep cut channel with clean vertical walls leading into the finished catchment — Section of the Oondheere water catchment after rehabilitation.

Scrubby degraded ground with dead brushwood and a lone figure on the ridge — Full view of Subaney catchment before rehabilitation.

Villagers working shoulder to shoulder on a bank of loose red soil — Section at edge of the Subaney water catchment during rehabilitation.

Widened catchment basin ringed by a fresh spoil bank under a bright sky — Section of the Subaney water catchment after rehabilitation.

Cracked clay pan fringed by leafless trees at the end of a dry season — Full view of War Labi catchment before rehabilitation.

Line of workers bent over hoes breaking hardpan along the catchment edge — Section at edge of the War Labi water catchment during rehabilitation.

Newly heaped earth bund holding back the deepened basin, trees behind — Section of the War Labi water catchment after rehabilitation.

Flat expanse of bare reddish soil with sparse dry tussocks of grass — Full view of War Guduudo catchment before rehabilitation.

Women in patterned dress lifting soil with hand tools along the excavation line — Section at edge of the War Guduudo water catchment during rehabilitation.

Finished catchment with a dark compacted rim enclosing the cracked basin floor — Section of the War Guduudo water catchment after rehabilitation.

Overgrazed ground scattered with livestock dung and crop stubble — Full view of Wariira catchment before rehabilitation.

Women digging in close formation, throwing up loose earth with mattocks — Section at edge of the Wariira water catchment during rehabilitation.

Broad excavated bowl of red earth with a raised perimeter bank — Section of the Wariira water catchment after rehabilitation.

Deeply cracked and collapsing clay bank at the edge of a dried pan — Full view of War Jiqley catchment before rehabilitation.

Women swinging mattocks in unison while others fill bags behind them — Section at edge of the War Jiqley water catchment during rehabilitation.

Rehabilitated catchment holding open water to the treeline after the rains — Section of the War Jiqley water catchment after rehabilitation.

Wide field of broken, desiccated clay clods under a pale sky — Full view of War Wayn catchment before rehabilitation.

Freshly cut embankment with a worker walking the length of the spoil heap — Section at edge of the War Wayn water catchment during rehabilitation.

Catchment brimming with water, clouds mirrored across its surface — Section of the War Wayn water catchment after rehabilitation.

Bare eroded slope of pale brown earth with thorn scrub along the skyline — Full view of Tiifow catchment before rehabilitation.

Villagers filling bags and shifting soil beside a freshly cut bank under acacia trees — Section at edge of the Tiifow water catchment during rehabilitation.

Deepened basin with a steep excavated rim curving around bare ground — Section of the Tiifow water catchment after rehabilitation.

Flat dry pan of grey cracked soil beneath a heavy overcast sky — Full view of Cadeyley catchment before rehabilitation.

Men and women swinging hoes together, breaking dark earth along the trench — Section of Cadeyley catchment during rehabilitation.

Shallow sheet of water spread across the finished catchment with green shoots emerging — Section of the Cadeyley water catchment after rehabilitation.

Stony open plain fading to low scrub under a cloudy grey sky — Full view of Boholojiid catchment before rehabilitation.

Woman in a dark shawl standing among workers hoeing the catchment floor — Section at edge of the Boholojiid water catchment during rehabilitation.

Cleared and levelled catchment floor edged by shrubs after excavation — Section of the Boholojiid water catchment after rehabilitation.

Bleached, salt-crusted pan of cracked white clay stretching to the horizon — Full view of Burcadey catchment before rehabilitation.

Group of workers bent over hand tools along the pale catchment edge — Section at edge of the Burcadey water catchment during rehabilitation.

Wide pool of standing water reaching a low earth bank with reeds breaking the surface — Section of the Burcadey water catchment after rehabilitation.

Churned dry soil scattered with clods and dead roots below a cloudy sky — Full view of Cayeeyo catchment before rehabilitation.

Women in bright shawls throwing up dust as they dig along the catchment rim — Section at edge of the Cayeeyo water catchment during rehabilitation.

Full pond of brown water ringed by a red earth bank and distant thorn trees — Section of the Cayeeyo water catchment after rehabilitation.

Silted basin overtaken by low green bush growth after seasons without clearing — Full view of Ceel Lehelay catchment before rehabilitation.

Line of villagers digging into the red bank beneath a single spreading tree — Section at edge of the Ceel Lehelay water catchment during rehabilitation.

Still catchment water reflecting white cumulus cloud and the treeline beyond — Section of the Ceel Lehelay water catchment after rehabilitation.

Rubble-strewn red earth basin broken up by loose stones and dry clods — Full view of Cimilo catchment before rehabilitation.

Crowd of villagers carrying sacks of spoil out of the widening excavation — Section at edge of the Cimilo water catchment during rehabilitation.

Squared-off catchment cut into red soil with clean walls and a graded floor — Section of the Cimilo water catchment after rehabilitation.

Rocky degraded ground littered with dead branches and bare thorn stumps — Full view of Doogad catchment before rehabilitation.

Worker raising a pickaxe while others bend to clear soil behind him — Section at edge of the Doogad water catchment during rehabilitation.

Freshly turned red earth basin with a raised rim under a bright blue sky — Section of the Doogad water catchment after rehabilitation.

Protection monitor taking notes with a mother and her two children outside their shelter

Field staff member reviewing a form at a table with a woman and three young children