job creation in Somalia

[mudugawi]

As someone who loves his country, I have been thinking about how to improve living conditions of Somali citizens. I know, peace and stabilty are needed first. But my idea is that as long as people are uneducated and have lack of skills, ignorance and poverty will prevail. Consequently, people, mostly men will be preoccupied in politics, fadhikudirir and other useless acts. Thus, theyre unable to provide for themselves and families.
My question is how can we develop skill building of the people. Different parts of the country are known for various industries. For example, Ceelbuur in galgaduud has a large mines producing dabqaads and burjikos for generations. We need to enlarge this production to create jobs for local youth. In Baraawe there are many handcrafts people who create anything from carpets, alindi cloth, coffeepots, silverware and gold. These skills should not be lost as they are our nations heritage. The importance is to focus on education, importance of selfsufficiency and smallscale businesses. It seems that over the course of the dagaalka people have forgoten the importance of these traditional skills. Allah hakuu naxariisto Aabe Siyaad, as he was the one who initiated Iska wax u qabso and Bar ama Baro campaigns that resulted in minimising illiteracy levels and increased self sufficiency. On the other hand it is important to know that there is lack of market due to the instability. What is your intake on this. Do you guys know any other local industries in the land.

[Coeus]

I wholehartedly agree with you Im going to north Somalia for the summer so i will further investigate and gather information about the regions and what the local activites are regarding manufacturing or trading.

[mudugawi]

Mashala. I would love to go back. There are just so many plans that I have, soo many ideas on how to promote, preserve and develop Somalia rich heritage, history economy. But then I lose hope when i see the ignorance in our people sometimes. Then again, i keep a vision of a better times ahead in the land. So, will you be going to Ceerigaabo. Lately I have been researching this place and would love to go. I heard from my father that the weather is very mild due to its location in the Golis mountain range.

[James Dahl]

I've long maintained that what Somalia needs is a stable currency, a good rail network, and an honest government.

The entrepreneurial spirit of Somalis will take care of the rest.

[Voltage]

I've long maintained that what Somalia needs is a stable currency, a good rail network, and an honest government.

The entrepreneurial spirit of Somalis will take care of the rest.

And good regulation due to the inherent corruption.

[mudugawi]

To James Dahl

I want to see Neurologists and water engineers as well. Not just a nation full of entrepeneurs. One can only imagine the fierce competition that may lead to round 2 of the CW, Lol jst jkn.

[ibrahimcw]

As someone who loves his country, I have been thinking about how to improve living conditions of Somali citizens. I know, peace and stabilty are needed first. But my idea is that as long as people are uneducated and have lack of skills, ignorance and poverty will prevail. Consequently, people, mostly men will be preoccupied in politics, fadhikudirir and other useless acts. Thus, theyre unable to provide for themselves and families.
My question is how can we develop skill building of the people. Different parts of the country are known for various industries. For example, Ceelbuur in galgaduud has a large mines producing dabqaads and burjikos for generations. We need to enlarge this production to create jobs for local youth. In Baraawe there are many handcrafts people who create anything from carpets, alindi cloth, coffeepots, silverware and gold. These skills should not be lost as they are our nations heritage. The importance is to focus on education, importance of selfsufficiency and smallscale businesses. It seems that over the course of the dagaalka people have forgoten the importance of these traditional skills. Allah hakuu naxariisto Aabe Siyaad, as he was the one who initiated Iska wax u qabso and Bar ama Baro campaigns that resulted in minimising illiteracy levels and increased self sufficiency. On the other hand it is important to know that there is lack of market due to the instability. What is your intake on this. Do you guys know any other local industries in the land.

i agree with you 100%.

before Somalia collapsed it was undergoing industriliasation, we had over 100 large industrical plants producing anything from refined oil and gas, cement, salt, glass, meat, fish etc. there was a huge incentive to develop in a smart and efficient way, for example there was oil exploration in in many parts of central and northern parts of Somalia and oil was found, but Siad Barre refused extraction and instead invested in refinary giving more jobs to Somalis and safeguarding our resources for future more educated Somalis

[2ndtoNone]

As someone who loves his country, I have been thinking about how to improve living conditions of Somali citizens. I know, peace and stabilty are needed first. But my idea is that as long as people are uneducated and have lack of skills, ignorance and poverty will prevail. Consequently, people, mostly men will be preoccupied in politics, fadhikudirir and other useless acts. Thus, theyre unable to provide for themselves and families.
My question is how can we develop skill building of the people. Different parts of the country are known for various industries. For example, Ceelbuur in galgaduud has a large mines producing dabqaads and burjikos for generations. We need to enlarge this production to create jobs for local youth. In Baraawe there are many handcrafts people who create anything from carpets, alindi cloth, coffeepots, silverware and gold. These skills should not be lost as they are our nations heritage. The importance is to focus on education, importance of selfsufficiency and smallscale businesses. It seems that over the course of the dagaalka people have forgoten the importance of these traditional skills. Allah hakuu naxariisto Aabe Siyaad, as he was the one who initiated Iska wax u qabso and Bar ama Baro campaigns that resulted in minimising illiteracy levels and increased self sufficiency. On the other hand it is important to know that there is lack of market due to the instability. What is your intake on this. Do you guys know any other local industries in the land.

I commend you for patriotism, but my dear brother we must get our priorities right.

Many of our people in Somalia are struggling to find food, clean water and medicines for the sick and it is not that these things are unobtainable in Somalia but rather that Many can not simply afford them. It is very unfair of us to think about the reputation of our country and preserving our heritage when vast number of our people are fighting for the bare necessities of life( food, clean water, shelter, medicine) daily, and when many of them go to sleep at night with empty stomachs and not knowing whether they will get something to eat for breakfast or for the rest of the day for that matter.

I think our immediate concerns must be how to help them overcome this problem by offering and sending what we are able to NOW. I'm sure anybody who cares about the situation of our people and is willing, will find a way to help those people who are in real need of help. Walaahi 20-30 dollers for many will feed and provide clean water and you know that this amount is peanuts for us in the west.
So think about if a group of friends in the diaspora, say for example a group of 4 or five people each contributes 5-10 dollars and how much that will help a poor family in our country, then think about if many people did this tens of thousands of poor somalis would have the burden of hunger and the sights of a mothers/fathers seeing young sons and daughters crying out of hunger or not able to play as kids do because they are hungry will decrease drastically.

We dont need to set up any kind of organisations to do this nor do we really need to do it through charity/ngo organisation, Simply, if you know anyone in Somalia, or someone you know knows somebody there send your help to that person and if that person is not someone who struggle for food, then ask and get that person to forward your help to the needy and more vulnerable one.

Evryone in the diaspora MUST think about and support a family or even one person in Somalia who is not their relative as well as helping those who are related to them, regularly for as long as it takes to tranform the situation.

For evrything else they will come up with their own solutions, whether it be entrepreneurial, production/ manufacture of goods or whther it be education.
''The entrepreneurial spirit of Somalis will take care of the rest.''

The struggle for the basic needs for life are their only barrier/obstacle to achieving the above.

Lets remove this barrier for them FIRST before all else.

I think this is something that everyone of us has the capacity to do immediately. Only then will we be able to do something for the many handcrafts people who create anything from carpets, alindi cloth, coffeepots, silverware and gold and preserve the nations heritage.
How can the nations heritage in producing and manufacturing goods be utilised when most of the nations children are going to bed on empty stomach and most are without the basic needs for life???
What good is creating jobs when the very people whome the jobs were created for an not work because they're hungary because they've been going to bed hungry/empty stomachs ?? How can they concentrate on doing the job when their children are suffering through illness and desease and hunger??

Any job creation that may be thought of MUST be preceded and/or accompannied with a real immediate solution to the problems I've described above.

Brother lets prioritise.

[rosyspecs]

As someone who loves his country, I have been thinking about how to improve living conditions of Somali citizens. I know, peace and stabilty are needed first. But my idea is that as long as people are uneducated and have lack of skills, ignorance and poverty will prevail. Consequently, people, mostly men will be preoccupied in politics, fadhikudirir and other useless acts. Thus, theyre unable to provide for themselves and families.
My question is how can we develop skill building of the people. Different parts of the country are known for various industries. For example, Ceelbuur in galgaduud has a large mines producing dabqaads and burjikos for generations. We need to enlarge this production to create jobs for local youth. In Baraawe there are many handcrafts people who create anything from carpets, alindi cloth, coffeepots, silverware and gold. These skills should not be lost as they are our nations heritage. The importance is to focus on education, importance of selfsufficiency and smallscale businesses. It seems that over the course of the dagaalka people have forgoten the importance of these traditional skills. Allah hakuu naxariisto Aabe Siyaad, as he was the one who initiated Iska wax u qabso and Bar ama Baro campaigns that resulted in minimising illiteracy levels and increased self sufficiency. On the other hand it is important to know that there is lack of market due to the instability. What is your intake on this. Do you guys know any other local industries in the land.