1. EMPOWERING POTENTIAL IN YOUNG PEOPLE
ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE
The Somali Youth Rescue Council (SYRC) is a youth run and led organization that supports and enables
young people to create programs and influence policies in the areas of gender, health, education, livelihoods,
the arts & governance. The organization promotes, protects and advances young people’s human rights by
building leadership, and strengthening youth led initiatives and movements. Founded in 2014, SYRC has
worked directly with young people to set up projects in Somalia over the last 2 years, reaching out to
300,000 adolescents and young people between 3-28 years of age in Mogadishu.
STRATEGIC FOCUS
We believe in empowering young people’s access to information, services and rights such that they can build
collective platforms to challenge and develop their leadership potential, politics and identity. We empower
young people by supporting their work through three key focus areas, namely:
Awareness and Advocacy: Young people’s work with Gender, Health & Rights, Peer Pressure and
Mental Health, Life Skills and Education, Healthcare and Governance and Accountability (focusing on the
implementation of The Right to Information Act in Somalia).
Community Based Partnerships: SYRC works primarily in National Youth Organization of Somalia and
works with youth led groups with partnerships at national, regional and international levels. We have
collaborated with youth groups and young activists from 17 districts of Banadir region, and we hope to
have other members from other regions.
Communication & Skills Development: SYRC trains young people to develop their communication
and technical skills, and skill to work with what they are interesting to be their skills in order to make self-
confidence.
Through our 3 focus areas, SYRC engages young people to develop projects through 6
programmatic divisions that work with:
1. Empowering Street Children (With Health & Hygiene Awareness, Life Skills & Education)
2. Addressing Psychosocial Issues & Developing Life Skills with Adolescents
3. Awareness & Advocacy
4. The Right to Information Act, Governance & Citizenship
5. Promoting, Protecting Youth
SYRC MISSION
SYRC's mission: Literacy and social awareness, self-reliance and self supported Community, community
health and wealth liberation, Leadership development, Relief and Rehabilitation, Empowering youth and
encouraging people.
SYRC VISION
To create a new people in a developed nation where there is no caste, creed, race, discrimination but only
humanitarian ship.
ORGANIZATION CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Youth civic engagement activities
The organization operates a Youth based community resource centre with library facility, On-
going Academic tuition and Basic computer training for the youths.
We aim at capacity building in various areas among the youths and community, we have 3
workshops in a month to involve the youths in development at different levels, the topic of the
workshop are all geared towards encouraging active participation of youth in the development
process.
The organization has a monthly forum for youth discussions on Responsible Citizenship,
addressing topical issues in the country.
2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
PrPROGRAMS FOCUSED BY SYRC
Education Programs
To reduce ignorance among the new generation of Somali, SYRC runs both formal and informal education
projects to build and enhance the knowledge and skills of Somali young generation in order to build their
capacity to participate the development of the country.
Livelihoods Support
Provision of sustainable and profitable means of livelihoods, training of Income Generating Activities and
financial management, in order to utilize the source of the country.
Peace Building and Reconciliation.
Training of Parents and Youth Support Groups on peace building and conflict resolution, ongoing tracing and
re-union, facilitation of community reconciliation and peace meetings. To sustain the peace of Somalia
through the young generation.
Gender and human right programs
In order to protect children and women from violence, SYRC runs child protection, gender and human right
programs to support the children and women at risk of violence and response those experienced violence.
Agriculture
Agriculture in Somalia is a major employment activity and is the largest economic sector in the country. It
contributes more than 65% to the national GDP from domestic distribution and exports to other parts of the
continent. But during the civil war, the production of Somali agriculture reduced due to little support and
encouragement gets by Somali farmers. So SYRC runs activities to support the Somali young farmers in
orders to increase the products of the Somali agriculture.
To raise awareness, understanding and knowledge on Nationalism, raising awareness on risks of Migration
that endangered many lives of Somali youth.
- Empowering youth through vocational training skills and platforms that they can change their ideas to build
their future.
- To provide a basic education, vocational education and trainings for the disadvantage
adolescents (orphanages) and youth in order to make them literate and empowered.
- To eliminate gender inequalities in primary and secondary education by achieving
equality in education, with ensuring girl’s full and equal access to basic education of
good quality.
- To improve the environmental condition for nomads and rural people, to create
To make a campaigns of tree plantation and collection of plastic
3. Fundamental principles
humanity,
impartiality,
neutrality,
independence,
voluntary service,
unity and universality
Our beliefs and values
We believe in;
Championing young people
Hearing young people’s voice
Having a youth focused view
Excitement about Youth Leadership
Individual young people
Importance of families
We Value;
commitment to team work
Having integrity in our work
Being neighborhood and brotherhood based
Investors in the community
readiness to change and improvement
Promoting supported risk and challenge
Youth voices from SYRC
for stronger society
We, SYRC, commit to selves to:
1. Do our part in building stronger societies by using the
invaluable knowledge, re-sources, energy, capabilities and
networks of young people to carry the efforts and build their country.
- 2. Embrace equal leadership opportunities for young women and
- young men, and share success stories
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