Ali Mohamed Ali (Kalaay)

#CleanUrCity Who doesn’t like to spend time at a clean beach view over the weekends while enjoying the sea breeze with a cup of your favorite Somalia tea? Of course, yes! A group of Somali volunteers had stepped up voluntary to clean up the most popular Liido Beach in #Mogadishu and conduct a weekly clean up campaign on every Friday for the 6th consecutive week at the time of this writing and probably continue. Environmental matters are taking more interest in global stage and clean environment is a priority worldwide and gaining popularity in attaining sustainable solution for a clean world.   How effective a small group can impact. If a small group organized themselves on weekends can clean and collect significant bags of garbage and plastic remaining materials thus we quickly learnt that there is no small impact when it comes to helping in the clean up of our environment. As the volunteers pick up items one by one like a cigarette butt, plastic bottles and handful trash will mak

  The Brain drain affecting National NGOs. Let’s jiggle our minds and look into the endless circle of brain drain affecting the local institutions and National NGOs in particular. First lest break it down the word brain-drain “Its literally the migration of the smart minds from any institution to another or cross country. Looking into the vast unemployment rate in our country Somalia considered to be around 75 % with yearly new graduates from local universities adding weight to the already stretched in country employment capacity. Local institutions and organization especially the National NGO often is the primary bridging gap of employment accessibility to INGO/UN bodies. Any job opportunity in any INGO/UN calls for a lengthy requirement of previous experience with the most between 3 – 5 years. Let’s ask ourselves where do these experience pre-requisite years pop up since new graduate got mostly zero experience in their resumes. Talking from NNGO stand, NNGO is quite open minded