Our Work
Five areas. One interconnected system.
The regenerative economy of peace.
Drop the Gun, Pick Up the Pen.
Drop the Gun, Pick Up the Pen.
It started as a slogan. It became a national mantra. For over three decades, the three-tiered model — disengage, rehabilitate, reintegrate — has been the operating principle of everything we do.
“You can't just take the gun. You have to replace it with something — a book, a skill, a reason to believe tomorrow is worth showing up for.”
Ilwad Elman
of unbroken commitment
The Leaders Are Already Here.
The Leaders Are Already Here.
Mogadishu has 74 universities. The gap isn't ambition. It isn't education. It's the systems that fail to connect potential to opportunity. She Will. Girls Leadership Academy. Peer-led programmes built in honour of Almas Elman.
across Somalia
You Cannot Build Peace in a Body Still Carrying War.
You Cannot Build Peace in a Body Still Carrying War.
Sister Somalia — the first rape crisis centre in the country. Sports as medicine — a girls' basketball team crowned Mogadishu Women's Champions. The ocean as a healing space. MHPSS woven through every programme, not bolted on.
permanent team
Peace by Africa.
Peace by Africa.
With UNDP, we convened the first regional symposium by and for civil society organisations working on inclusive reintegration. That became Peace by Africa — a continental network connecting practitioners from Mogadishu to Juba to Nairobi.
one interconnected system
Building Somalia's Workforce. Shaping Its Markets.
Building Somalia's Workforce. Shaping Its Markets.
Twenty years of vocational training, updated annually. Training and Placing — TAP. Apprenticeships, work placements, enterprise start-up grants. A placement rate that's unmatched. Employers trust what comes out of our centres.