HARO TEAM

Board of Director

Ali Abdinur

President/CEO

Ali Abdinur has more than twenty years of nonprofit organization management experience. Read More...

Ali Abdinur has more than twenty years of nonprofit organization management experience. He first started working with Somali Community of San Diego in 1992 as one of the Board of the Directors. He started new campaigns for the organization to further the purpose of serving the community. He later became part of Amana Foundation and held the position of Executive Director. He worked rigorously to accomplish the mission and vision of Amana Foundation until 2004 when he started his own business in the import/export industry. Because he was disturbed by the condition of his fellow countrymen in particular the children and women of Somalia that he then decided to start HARO (Humanitarian African Relief Organization) in 2007. HARO is US based non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing humanitarian relief and development throughout horn of Africa. Since the inception of HARO, Ali Abdinur has helped raise thousands of dollars in order to accomplish the mission of HARO which is to empower the needy and the indigent to make informed and healthy choices to counter the social and economic problems endemic in parts of Somalia and East Africa, by presenting helpful awareness, effective education, and assistance in the form of food, shelter, and medicine.

Bashir M. Hassan

Board Chairman

Bashir Hassan has worked in the medical field for the last fifteen years in different capacity. Read More...

Bashir Hassan has worked in the medical field for the last fifteen years in different capacity. Bashir earned undergraduate degree in Public Health at San Diego State University, California, and Masters degree in Healthcare Administration from Capella University at Minnesota and has completed AS degree in Cardiovascular Technology at Grossmont College, Elcajon City, California. Bashir currently is an administrator of small, privately owned Home Healthcare Company in Saint Paul Minnesota. Besides his professional job, he works tirelessly in the field of community services and helped many non- profit, community-based organizations, including Humanitarian, educational and health care services. Such as Humanitarian African Relief Organization (HARO). Bashir is co-founder of HARO, and since its inception in 2007, He works with this grassroots organization that supporter vulnerable populations in east Africa communities. Bashir is passionate person, who likes to support others in any capacity. He wishes and strives to see people and organizations grow and make positive impacts on people’s lives.

Ahmed Jama

Board Secretary

HARO Staff

Mohamud Awil Mohamed

Director of Development and Operations

Mohamud joined the HARO in October of 2021, he previously worked in strategic and educational consulting as well as a researcher and archivist with various institutions in the United States and abroad. Read More...

Mohamud joined the HARO in October of 2021, he previously worked in strategic and educational consulting as well as a researcher and archivist with various institutions in the United States and abroad. He is currently a Fontaine Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing a Ph.D. in History and Islamic Law with a focus on Islamic thought and history in the horn of Africa, Hijaz and wider Indian ocean world. He holds a diploma in Islamic Studies from Abubakar As-Siddique's Institute for Islamic Studies, a BA in History from Augsburg university and an MA in Heritage Studies and Public History from the University of Minnesota.

Daud Abdi

Program Manager and Head of Community Relations

Duraan Ali

Chief Technology Officer