YOUTH RE-CREATIONAL AND RE-INTEGRATION PROGRAM 

After almost a decade of lack of  central government in Somalia, Somali youths were among the hardest hit groups in terms of lack of education, job opportunities and other services necessary for the masses as a whole and the young people in particular. This exposed too many young people to countess bad habits. First and foremost, they were used largely as child soldiers fighting for unscrupulous war lords in many parts of Somalia. Most of them developed the habit of using the gun as a means of living robbing civilians of their possessions and raping women. They were also up to some other grisly acts including killing innocent people and roaming main streets holding up public traffic and taking away passenger’s property at gun point.  In this way a whole generation of youths was doomed to an absolute failure and posed an obstacle to peace and tranquility in Somalia for this period of statelessness. 

Furthermore, almost unpredictable number of youths lost their life and limbs during that distasteful transitional period.  Whilst more than a double of that number of other community parts have been violated in rape, harassment, robbery, assassination, illegal killing, kidnapping, and broad day light looting etc by the youth groups in action of militias created and used by statues qua minor/major groups in Somalia.

OSPAD closely assessed contributing factors to this tragedy and found out that there was no awareness and education of youth groups in order for them to play their role and take their responsibility in general as other world wide youth groups do. 

Therefore, OSPAD organization decided to respond to this tragedy by establishing re-creational and re-integration

activities for the reachable youth groups through

 Awareness building, trainings, and workshop sports championships

,debating freely and vocational and literacy education teaching in order to influence or direct them on the way of living and developmental initiatives independently and to that trail OSPAD achieved to gain and integrate to the program more then three thousand youth groups in the area of OSPAD operation.