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Somali Self-Help Group is a non-profit organization established in 1998 by Somali individuals both in Somalia and in the Diaspora. SSHG is registered at the secretariat of Somalia Aid Coordination Body, Nairobi, Kenya as well as at the Hiiraan Regional Authority, Somalia. Somali Self-Help Group is also a fully registered UK charity.
SSHG believes that rehabilitation and development projects initiated locally should be encouraged. It strongly supports the views that people on the ground know more than anybody else about their needs and solution of their problems.
SSHG aims to create socioeconomic and community development opportunity for sections of Somali people greatly affected by the prolonged civil war, to enable them to participate in rehabilitation and development programs and to relieve them from warfare and the dependence on foreign assistance.
The SSHG will also work with local communities in the UK, especially in those designed to develop appropriate health and education provisions.
SSHG is intensively searching second hand but functioning medical equipments for the rehabilitation of outpatient clinics and regional hospitals in the Southern Somalia and in particular in the Hiiraan region.
SSHG is thanking the following institutions:
The Royal Free Hospital in Camden- UK has donated12 defibrillators which have been given to several hospitals in Somalia. A donation of dialysis units (3) was turned down as it would require specialist nurse and fluids that would not be available in Somalia.
The Universal Healthcare Trusts of Toronto (Canada) has donated a vital shipment of medicine to the people affected by the flooding that took place in Hiiraan region in November – December 2006.
All costs of shipment and related expenses come from the contribution of Somalis in the Diaspora. Support from other institutions are always welcomed