EDUCATION PROGRAM.

After the loss of the national education system and all other state run social services providing institutions during Somali civil strife which broke out in the early 1990s a whole generation faced black future because of lack of formal education. A handful of privately owned schools tried to fill the gap but to no avail as a very few number of students afford to attend these schools due to the school fees that most of the Somali families cannot pay. This has led too many children at schooling age to take recourse to streets as street children taking to bad habits such as Qat chewing and later on hooliganism. In an effort to do something about this problem OSPAD felt that it was prudent to establish education centers to accommodate orphans and other children from low income families in education. OSPAD has opened 5 formal schools for primary and intermediate education in Banadir and lower Shabelle regions. The result was encouraging; the five schools have so far seen the graduation of more 2500 students into the secondary education level who are now pursuing their studies at different secondary schools in the two said regions. 

 On the other hand, OSPAD established 4 non formal education centers on literacy development purposes which were targeting vulnerable parts of the community like street children from IDPS, and children from destitute families who missed the primary or basic studies. This gave non formal education apportunities to hundreds of students belonging to above mentioned groups of the communities and resulted in positive impact in supporting the vulnerable groups in the geographical areas of OSPAD especially BANADIR and lower SHABELE regions, more than 1500 students have learnt primary alternative education equivalent to standard eight of the basic education.

While More than 1500 children from those specific communities have been enabled to write and read efficiently equipping them with basic civic ideas relevant to their level and age.