Salaam Development Center (SDC) is known for its fast and quick humanitarian interventions in saving lives and alleviating suffering during the times of disasters and emergencies. In addition we are engaged in various initiatives that transforms community basic social Services needs by creating opportunities and income generating avenues for the Youth, Women, IDPs and poor rural communities, we also provide services on social research activities and management of development projects as well as humanitarian action in Somalia.
During severe droughts and fighting between clans there is increased the rate of unemployment, poverty and lack of livelihoods copying mechanism skills for youth remains a challenging issue while the little humanitarian support stood support the youth for basic living needs in Mudug region of Somalia thus the need for attitude change for the youth is predictable.
The lack of social economic stability for many parents has resulted the youth to get limited or no access to basic education and higher education because of their experience and vulnerable resulted the recruitment of many youth particularly young boys and men to be recruited into the different alliances in the country.
Hundreds of thousands of young people with encompass male and female have partly or completely missed their formal educational opportunities. Becoming desperate with little or nothing to expect from their future, they have been attracted to the conflict, It is mainly livelihood uncertainty and unemployment that impel numerous youth groups in to pursue destructive deeds without reckoning the consequence where by unemployment reached over highest level that ever never occur in Somalia due to civil wars erupted.
SDC is one of the organizations that stood to develop the entire community in Mudug region a long term impact oriented project of youth empowerment and training through supporting vocational skills i.e. Auxiliary nurse, Electricity installation, Fishery, Auto Mechanical, Computer Software, Mobile repairing, Computer Hardware, Secretarial, Tailoring Business development training skills funded by different partners.
We planned in 2018 implementation of promotion livelihood/live skills through vocational training with selection criteria age (18-35 years) with gender balance consideration therefore, 180 trainees participated and benefited the vocational training skills project with difference skills such as Business Development, Computer and Secretarial and Tailoring skills trainings in Mudug region-Somalia.