Programs | Education & Opportunity

Education opens the door. Opportunity changes what comes next.

HARO helps children and young people access education, build practical skills, and pursue greater opportunities for their future.

One gift can carry a student through a year of school, a month of dugsi, or a full course of training.

Fund a Student

Students at their desks during a HARO visit to Gambool High School, 2023

One path, four gifts

Follow a learner from first lessons to first job. Each step is a gift with a clear price and a clear result.

Early yearsIslamic Education$50 a month keeps a child in a local dugsi, learning the Quran
School yearsGabi School$500 covers one student's year of IT education
Continuing educationScholarship Fund$1,000 funds one student's scholarship for a full year
Into workSkills & Vocational Training$1,500 trains one young person for work and income

Four ways to fund a student's path.

Every tile has one clear gift — a year of school, a month of dugsi, a training place — and other amounts if you'd rather choose your own. Each opens a secure checkout.

A boy speaks into a microphone at a HARO Eid al-Fitr event for orphans

Scholarship Fund

$1,000per student, per year

Help a student keep learning and moving forward.

For a student with the drive to learn, the cost of education should not be what stands in the way. HARO's Scholarship Fund helps students continue their education and pursue greater opportunities for their future.

With $1,000, you can fund one student's scholarship for a full year.

$1,000 — Fund a student for one year

Or choose another amount

$50 $100 $250 $500 Other amount

Your gift helps remove a financial barrier and gives a student the opportunity to keep learning and moving forward.

Dedicated fund

Gabi School Scholarship

$500per student, per year

Sponsor a year of IT education at Gabi School.

Sponsor a full year of scholarship learning for a student at Gabi School, an IT education program supported by HARO.

$500 covers one student for a full year at Gabi School.

$500 — Sponsor a Gabi School student

Or choose another amount

$50 $100 $250 $1,000 $1,500 Other amount

Gifts here go to a dedicated Gabi School fund, tracked separately from other education giving.

Children with HARO staff in a school library in Somalia

Islamic Education

$50per child, per month

Help a child grow in knowledge and faith.

For $50 a month, you can help a child access consistent Quranic and Islamic education through a local dugsi.

Your monthly support helps make Islamic education more accessible and gives a child the opportunity to learn the Quran, strengthen their faith, and build a foundation they can carry with them as they grow.

$50/month — Support a child's Islamic education

Or choose a monthly amount

$100/mo $250/mo $500/mo Other amount

HARO staff and partners seated at a table during a skills and vocational training session

Skills & Vocational Training

$1,500per student

Help turn practical skills into opportunity.

For young people looking to build a future, the right training can open a path toward work, income, and greater independence.

HARO supports practical skills and vocational training designed to help young people build capabilities they can use to pursue employment and economic opportunity.

With $1,500, you can fund vocational and skills training for one student.

$1,500 — Fund one student's training

Or choose another amount

$50 $100 $250 $500 Other amount

Your gift helps give a young person more than training. It gives them practical skills they can carry into what comes next.

Skills & training

Training that opens doors.

From vocational courses for young people to capacity-building workshops for the people and organizations who serve them, HARO's training work is practical, local, and hands-on.

Fund a Student's Training

Trainees write at desks outdoors during a HARO skills training session — A skills training session

Participants beside the HARO banner at the capacity-building training in Jigjiga, Ethiopia — Capacity-building training — Jigjiga, Ethiopia

Participants at the HARO training on organizational leadership and legal frameworks — Organizational leadership and legal framework training

Give directly to a partner.

HARO's education partners have their own designated funds. Every gift below is tracked separately and goes to the named partner.

Designated fund

Autism Somalia Center Fund

From $25

Support children with autism and their families.

HARO partners with Autism Somalia Center to strengthen its work serving children with autism and their families in Somalia.

Through the Autism Somalia Center Fund, you can give directly toward the center's programs, services, and ongoing needs.

Every gift to this fund is designated for Autism Somalia Center, giving the center flexible support to respond to the needs of the children and families it serves.

Support Autism Somalia Center

Choose an amount and help strengthen the center's work

$25 $50 $100 $250 $500 $1,000 Other amount

Designated fund

Sheikh Mohamed Moallim Foundation Fund

From $25

Invest in education, skills, and opportunity in Somalia.

HARO partners with Sheikh Mohamed Moallim Foundation, a Somali organization working to strengthen education, skills, livelihoods, and community development.

Through the Sheikh Mohamed Moallim Foundation Fund, you can give specifically toward this partnership and help support locally led programs serving communities in Somalia.

Your gift helps SMMF expand its work in education, skills development, livelihood support, and other community priorities within the scope of our partnership.

Support SMMF

Choose an amount and help strengthen locally led opportunity

$25 $50 $100 $250 $500 $1,000 Other amount

Featured education partner

Autism Somalia Center, on stage.

Two clips HARO shared from an Autism Somalia Center event: the children and families the center serves, and the people behind it. Every gift to the Autism Somalia Center Fund is designated for the center.

From the archive

Education and livelihoods HARO has already supported

Schools, training and start-up capital from HARO's field record.

2012Two-day First Aid Training for secondary schools at the University of Somalia in Mogadishu — more than 60 Banadir high-school students taught by doctors.
2013Relief for more than 200 blind and vision-impaired families in Wadajir, including students of Al-Nuur, Mogadishu’s school for the blind.
2014A month of running costs for the School of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Puntland, where 170+ students learn with a Braille printing machine.
2018Kismayo microfinance program trained 50 women caring for orphans and funded each with start-up business capital — donated by Somali women in Seattle and matched by HARO.
2020Youth Employment Initiative launched: apprenticeships, traineeships, start-up grants and job placements for a country where over 70% of people are under 30.
2023HARO team visit to Gambool High School — the classrooms behind the Scholarship Fund.
2024Capacity-building training on organizational leadership and legal frameworks held in Jigjiga, Ethiopia.