garsoor social development org.

Head Office:                  HARGEISA -SOMALILAND

Tel:                                063 4140686

Email:                         Garsoorsdo@hotmail.com

Type:                         Humanitarian, Non-Governmental, Non-Political

 , environmental and social development

Program Focus Area:             1. Child and Women Rights Protection

                                                            2. Water, Health &Sanitation

                                                            3. Non-Formal Education

4. Livestock Improvement

5. Skills development & Empowerment

6. Environment Protection

7. Improvement IDP’S

Geographical focus    Garsoor Social Development Organization is non-profit, non-government organization working in the best interest of the forethought that care and development of the community has to be touched at following points: Education, hygienic (health) and social development. It was founded on 11-November-2009in Hargeisa by a group of self-motivated and dynamic youths dedicated to the idea that as the power of spirit raises within so does the desire to serve the community. 

                                                                                   

We provide qualitative and professionally supported welfare services to most poor communities in Somaliland through community residents’ participation and engagement. By providing basic education, Milk sanitation , and job training skills, sanitation and hygienic programs and equip the poor community with skill trainings to develop new sources of capital and innovative tools for community development, we aim to accurately organize and advocate activities and developmental projects/programs that advance and promote the quality of community life.

Hence through comprehensive management and maximum utilization of available resources, we seek to build and sustain unified, self-reliant, even-handed communities in Somaliland.

Guiding Philosophy

We at GSDO believe that our mission reflects a comprehensive approach towards care and advancement of the poor, helpless and weak and acknowledge that the best apparatus to fulfill our mission is a large heart and a passion- driven character.

Primary Objectives and Issues of Interest

1.                         Community Care and Development

1.          Education

2.          Poverty Alleviation

3.          Working Milk Sanitation and Hygiene

4.          Protection of Environment& Livestock

5.          Women and youth empowerment through education

6.          Fighting against discrimination and exploitation of vulnerable groups like the marginalized people with disability, minority and Internally Displaced population

1.                                                             Community Health Care and Diseases Advocacy

1.          Promotion of community hygienic program to improve basic health;

2.          Prevention, control and advocacy of TB, HIV/AIDS, Malaria.

1.       Youth anti Community Awareness Outreach

1.          Youth Anti Trafficking & illegal Migration Awareness

ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE

Non Formal (Literacy and Numeracy)

Garsoor Social Development Organization believes that education is a tool and instrument through which we can bring effective and successful change in the lives of the people and to achieve this golden dream the GSDO worked very hard during the past year 2010 to 2015 promote, support and encourage people to get education and so far we managed to get success in achieving our objectives. 

Graduation Ceremony

60 women completed GSDO free literacy and numeracy six month courses

During the year 2011 the GSDO non-formal education section provide free literacy and numeracy education to 120 community members in Hargeisa IDPs and  Labi-sagallo IDPs, i.e. adult women and young girls with. 

Garsoor ngois handing the certificate 

Working Milk Sanitation and Hygiene

Garsoor LNGO has founded 2010 four milk centers in Hargeisa , which are Star Milk center, Qudhac-dheer Mil center, Shiraaqle Milk Center and M. Moge milk center   with strong relationship with livestock people and facilitating easy transaction of fresh milk with high quality and quantity . This center is intended to facilitate access for livestock people to market then livestock production in the main market of Hargeisa  The center encourages lives tock people to send clean milk pouring in clean decanters for transporting urban market to attract retailers and consumers of the milk and increase the demand of milk use in the market

Our mission is to improve and help increased income of livestock people through advice, information on typeof milk and enhancing opportunity of fresh milk availability in Hargeisa market.

Garsoor takes assessment for the Hygiene of the milk

GSDO PAST IMPLEMENTED AND CONTINUES PROJECTS

NO	Activity	Funded Agency year	Location
Garsoor SDO	Poverty Garsoor L/NGO reduction	2009-2010	M/JEEX
Garsoor SDO	Income Garsoor L/NGO Generation Skills 90 Girls and Women	2009-2010	M/JEEX
Garsoor SDO	Skill Training 60 Garsoor L/NGO   Girls From IDPs and 30 Students had Enrolled to Formal Schools And livestock health support about 1500 rural families effected by droughts as successful contributed by ministry of livestock and us 120 children learned education writing and reading  and still now going	2011	Lebi-Sagale M.Moge
Garsoor SDO	8 March 2012 Garsoor L/NGO  Ceremony (violence against women)	2012	Labi-Saglo IDPs
Garsoor SDO	FGM Campaign Garsoor L/NGO  Awareness	2012	Lebi-Sagale M.Moge
Garsoor SDO	Food distribution Garsoor L/NGO  with 300  drought effected families	2012	Lebi-Sagale
Garsoor SDO	Educational skills AET creation training with girls and women adults and youth groups graduated 120 persons and also literacy and numeracy for IDPs of M.Mooge and Lebi sagale and Ethiopia zone Five. Oodweyne district  and now 130 childer waiting graduate school	2012	Lebi-Sagale M.Moge, Odweyne
Garsoor SDO	GSDO-NGO  Garsoor L/NGO  Succeed that the graduated number of our trained groups some of them got a job to survive , as they increasing the number of students from the IDPs and we hope to provide them as income generation and business creation programs and we get relationship from humanitarian organization cooperating in Somaliland and Ethiopia Zone five.	2013	Lebi-Sagale M.Moge
Garsoor SDO	Garsoor gives Garsoor L/NGO workshops and Trained  for Milk women to produce of health milk in the community	2013	HARGEISA
Garsoor SDO	Garsoor made Garsoor L/NGO  assessment to livestock people to check the hygiene of milk and health of animal	2013	1. Sabo-wanag 2. Odwaine 3. SALAHLEY
Garsoor SDO	Rehabilitation of Somaliland IDP children  UNOHCHR and UNOHCR andMMR NRC support rebuild of digale HAUT support refuge and poor family two years income	2014-2015	Hargeisa Somaliland
Garsoor SDO	Rehabilitation of Somaliland IDP children 600 children NRC and ministry of education supported and build six class		Hargeisa Somaliland
Garsoor SDO	Child protection Molsa,  sos working group and mothers and how increase their lives and education sos supported and make family works and support 20 students skills	2015-2016	Hargeisa Somaliland
Garsoor SDO	IDP Working Group Ocha, MRR&R,welfation  all IDP and welfation support 762 family give food and cloths =4572	2015-2016	m/jeeh
Garsoor SDO	GSDO and its partner SOS have provided together  income generation to the IDP community lived in Digaale Settlement	SOS children’s village 2016	Hargiesa

                                 

CHALLENGES

1.                   GSDO still needs to get long-term funders to support its strategic plans to fulfill its long-term planned activities and programs. With members small contribution GSDO has tried to reach-out to its target groups, through basic literacy class. Ironically, the GSDO membership contribution is not sufficient to continue the education classes and hygiene campaigning and also GSDO instrument and staff students and sports of children.  There is urgent need to strengthen its fund raising program both locally and internationally to sustainable manage its planned activities/programs.

Inadequate funding has hampered its development plan (having a sustainable). There is need to strengthen and diversify the funding to pay staff to facilitate the planned activities with motivated staff. This in the past has hampered the implementation of planned activities as many look for better opportunities elsewhere in the such as transportation to support  NGO sector.