Northern Frontier Youth League (NoFYL)

NoFYL was founded in 2005 as a welfare society by local Somali pastoral youth and women who were committed to improving the living standards and the level of decision-making of their fellow pastoral Youth and women. We particularly target youth, women and children, the most vulnerable members of society; we address issues of Education, water and sanitation, campaigns and advocacy, and women empowerment through civic education, emergency interventions and protection programmes. We also work with communities at large to identify core problems. We form the basis for youth networking with other civil society organizations both at the Local and international levels to create a resource centre and a forum for discussion; exchange of ideas on problems affecting the youth community. While also Integrating the existing projects for the improvement of proper healthcare and living standards towards self-employment opportunities and initiating food self-sufficiency strategies and funding.