Projects

HIRDA projects target four thematic areas that give direct benefits to those in desperate need. These include Education, Food and agricultures, Awareness & Capacity building and Youths & Sports.

Education:
Aiming at giving learning chance to children of school age and adults, HIRDA built the Bardera primary school with seven classrooms for 680 pupils. The school runs two shifts; and afternoon for pupils of grade one to grade eight.

In 2000 HIRDA built the Dr Qasim primary school named after a peace-loving Somali medical doctor murdered by bandits. The school has a capacity for 390 pupils who attend classes in two shifts-morning and afternoon.

With concern on youths between the ages of 18 and 25 whose aspirations are obstructed by wars, HIRDA is in the advance stage of its pilot vocational training centre in Bardera. In its third year, the trade centre has given skills to youths in woodwork, technical fitting and repair. HIRDA plans to develop the school further till it stands by itself.

Parallel with formal basic education, HIRDA runs adult education centres to support the educational need of adult people. The curriculum of HIRDA Adult education include basic counting, reading and writing as well as awareness courses that relate with the social life of the community; targeting hygiene, leadership skill, civil participation, peace and environment. Most of the adult graduate of the centre are now useful both to their society and in HIRDA works.

Food & Agriculture:
Since 2003, HIRDA acquired an existing community farmland in Hilfato. HIRDA has transformed the farm from growing tropical wild fruits to production of more needed stable food crops for surrounding communities. The more that 50-hectare farm plot has provided 60 community residents’ with farm jobs of planting, weeding, harvesting and distribution. While seasonal flooding continues to obstruct HIRDA plans, the benefits of the farm remain to be fully tapped. At its pilot stage, HIRDA has learnt how to reduce the effects of severe flooding with trenches technique. This technique will live to benefit other farmers in flooding regions of Somalia.
The goal of HIRDA farm and Agriculture project is to train villagers, especially younger people in profitable agriculture occupation. Modern farming methods, use of fertilizers, poultry breeding and building cooperative network are among core areas where HIRDA is focusing to improve Somalia internal food production and distribution. In the coming years, HIRDA will intensify works at the farm with more activities on recruiting young school leavers for trainings that will enable them at graduation to own their own crop or poultry farm business. HIRDA will support them with Agro micro finance assistance to enable make a start.

Awareness & Capacity building:
HIRDA awareness and capacity building projects aim at enabling community’s collaboration to become partners in peace building, leverage their efficiency, reduce socio-cultural impediments, spread education on health and environmental matters, boost exchange of information and integrate the capacity of participating stakeholders.HIRDA has implemented numerous projects on these subjects on target community groups with the cooperation of international organisations and donors. So far, Female Genital Mutilation, domestic violence, girls’ education, youth’s cooperation, women right, domestic hygiene and other forms of social ills are highlighted in various communities where HIRDA has its presence.
Project Hirda(Overview)3 years programme

Relief Projects
HIRDA aims to provide relief services to minimize the impact of years of wars and natural calamities in Somalia. Implemented projects have focused on:
§ Providing food to safe lives, shelters for the displaced, water and sanitation to refugees and people in disaster areas;
§ Providing educational facilities for children of refugees and poor families to attend school;
§ Facilitating resettlement process for internally displaced people with shelter and engaging them with means of income;
§ Reaching out to emerging Somali ethnic communities in east African counties to ensure their assess to basic need;
§ Reducing severity of conflicts between refugees and natives by offering mediation services to ensure understanding.

HIRDA is faced with the challenges of providing all able hands and communities with the tools that will enable to achieve economic self-reliance. We are doing our best to respond to changing situation in regions where we work.

Women empowerment
HIRDA presents practical supports to Somali women faced with relentless emotional and financial denial and are subjected to anti-social authorities as they struggle to remain engaged and productive within their society. Our struggle is to create a better future for women through building their capacities to enable them achieve self-determination and self-reliance with greater contribution to Sustainable development. On this facet, HIRDA starting point is making girls’ school enrolment a special priority that is pursued with awareness creation for mothers and families. Women at different age groups are encouraged to follow HIRDA training programmes that aim to empower women, economically and socially. HIRDA is guided by the pronouncement and chosen approaches as conveyed in Millennium Development Goals.

Social remittance:
HIRDA believes that displaced Somalis can make useful contributions in restoring development tracks in their country of origin. In the current situation, Contributions of Somali diasporas are not only meaningful in terms of their monetary remittances but the ideas, practices and skills they remit are impacting lives from the grassroots’. HIRDA promotes their bond by reaching out to their communities to expand their involvements, share their aspirations and seek means of achieving greater recognitions within the institutions of migration and development; both at receiving and sending countries.

Orphan sponsorship:
Decades of wars in Somali have created a large population of orphans no adult family member to guide them into adulthood. These children need love, food, education, shelter, cloths and healthcare. They look up to us for help and if we ignore them in their vulnerable situation, they are likely going to be our future threats.· Your contribution will help in HIRDA orphanage projects. · Through HIRDA orphan sponsorship support you can identify and build a bon with an orphan in Somalia.

Health project
Child social and financial education
Mentor & mobilizers programme

Sports programme:
HIRDA promotes sporting and recreational activities among Somalia youths. HIRDA has provided community youths with sporting facilities guiding them into forming teams for local and cross boarder competitions. This has helped to reduce youths engagement with anti-social activities and make them think of becoming a tool for peace. Several annual competitions are organised to bring Somalia youths together. By helping the young lives, they are guided to building a better social live, saved from falling into the hands of warlords, mentally strengthened to accept responsibilities
Awareness programme