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OUR PROGRAMS
By 2026, AHDI’s innovative programs have directly supported hundreds of primary school students, nearly 100 vocational trainees, and many more in the wider Hargeisa area of Somaliland. Our vocational program has graduated trainees from rigorous technical, nursing, and midwifery schools, enhancing their prospects as future leaders and entrepreneurs. Graduates are further supported by long-term cash transfers, ensuring job security. Additionally, AHDI has mobilized and distributed thousands of books, school supplies, laptops, and iPads to our partner schools, supporting quality educational outcomes and the sustainability and growth of these initiatives.
HANDS-ON TRAINING
Scholarships that provide youth with vocational skills and training to help them secure employment and become leading members of their community.
In 2019, AHDI established its flagship program sponsoring scholarships to young men to attend a year-long program to learn carpentry, aluminum fabrication, welding, and electrical skills. Upon graduating, AHDI Promise's local partners help them secure jobs bringing their new skills to their local communities See them in action - Vocational Student Photos.
CHANGING
THE
ODDS
Empowering young women to become skillful midwives – changing the odds for themselves and their patients.
Recent prospective research shows that roughly 1 in 18 women in Somaliland admitted for delivery experienced a near-miss event. AHDI's midwifery program addresses this gap by training young women from rural communities as skilled birth attendants; placing competent care precisely where the health system currently fails to reach.
Sponsored graduates return to their home communities for a one-year volunteer placement, establishing a sustained local capacity for obstetric intervention that did not previously exist. Beyond that year, they continue practicing as income-earning midwives, meaning each placement permanently raises the baseline of maternal care available in that area.
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
In Somaliland, fewer than 1 in 3 primary-age children are enrolled in school. AHDI wants to change that.
With a median age of 16, Somaliland's population is overwhelmingly young. Without accessible pathways into productive skills, poverty threatens to foreclose the prospects and capacity of the vital demographic core of the country.
AHDI-Promise targets this bottleneck through vocational sponsorship. In collaboration with local organizations, we have funded tuition for over 60 trainees aged 15–21 in Hargeisa-based vocational programs. Graduates leave with trade skills that translate directly into income. Many have gone on to establish private businesses, creating employment opportunities that extend the program's impact beyond the individual trainee.
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