Shabelle Relief and Development Organization (SHARDO), a local Somali NGO has conducted today a well-organized closure ceremony for session three on 40 youth trainees benefited from SHARDO Livelihoods promotion for vulnerable youth through vocational Skills training project in Mogadishu project that was implemented by SHARDO with the funding of African Development Foundation (USADF).
These youth graduates were trained with more demandable skills in the local markets such Fishery and electricity training skills. As the SHARDO administration mentioned and demonstrated at the ceremony, the main achievements of this project were that 40 youth (all male) have been trained with the above two courses, 20 youths for fishery were distributed fiber glass boat with completed tools per group and the group consist of 4 trainees with the purpose of startup opportunity. While the overall objective of the project was “ Fighting poverty, upgrading life skills and supporting socio-economic development’’.
High guests have participated in the ceremony such doctorate of fishery from the ministry of fishery of federal government of Somalia, a representative of SOCA in south central Somalia, local companies like Growth, Enterprise, Employment and Livelihood (GEEL) and Horn of Africa Fishing Enterprise Company (HAFEC), Abdiasis and Karan district commissioner and those previously provided on job training for 20 youths of the electricity installation training skillsall provided basic electric installation tools. All the guests have much appreciated and thanked to SHARDO with the well transparent implementation of this project, they also sent many thanks to ADF with the funding of this helpful project for Somali youths.
Some of the trainees at the ceremony have expressed their feelings of happiness and self-motivated in terms of the training they had earlier and thanked both agencies SHARDO and ADF.
SHARDO is a local NGO, non-for profit and non-political organization formed in 1995 under suggestion and endorsement of local Somali community groups for the mandate of provision of various humanitarian services for the needy community in Somalia.
