Who we are

Somaliland Community Action Network

The Somaliland Community Action Network (SCAN) is a multi-purpose, non-governmental, non-profitable, established in the year 2005 engaged in promoting the community development with a focus on grass root initiatives to alleviate poverty and human suffering and to assist them in restoring their stability, social change, economic improvement, development and empowering them to control their livelihoods. SCAN is a Somali word that reflects “local”. SCAN main aim reflects to serve the community in terms of social, economic, and environment promotional activities and to build a good socially responsible society. It also bound to look for the development of the rural poo and empower them towards their sustainability.

Since its inception the society carried out many welfare relief’s, development and issues based programs, especially for the empowerment of Somaliland poor communities, Women, Children, Youth, and Otherwise Abled. Displaced, Migrants and unorganized sectors through support and counteraction programs with a vision of programs of translating community empowerment into meaningful expression of Social Action, Development programs, sustainable use of their already meager natural resources.

Purpose of Establishment

SCAN was build a professional core team of committed members who collectively have an extensive experience in development programs requested by the local people and the region’s Diaspora to promote themselves to better livelihood. The members of the society are all experienced in the field of development and have come together only to given their voluntary services without expecting any monitory benefits with the only vision of bringing the society to the hopeless, deprived and weaker sections of the society irrespective of caste, creed, color and religion.

Their commitment was to create a local organization working with local community to explore ways and mechanisms to improve the local community basic needs, mobilizing them through collective action for social and economic improvement, particularly the most backward and vulnerable groups of the country.