THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE: BOSASO CASE

[waryaa]

Phrases like "if there's a will there's a way", "necessity is the mother of invention" and "no pain no gain" come to your mind when you see the hard work of these people.

These guys turned this:


into this:


using this:


Now this and similar farms provide tomato, lime, carrots, corn, etc, to the whole region.

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[Shirib]

Masha'Allah. Great job by those people, imagine what they could do with better technology and equipment

[Shift]

Waxaan maqli jiray "nimaan shaqesan shaah ma cabo",the gagaab have worked hard and are now enjoying the fruits of their labor

[tightrope]

ARE YOU SERIOUS? GREAT JOB BOSASIANS!!!

[VybzKartel]

How does one determine where to dig a water well? As dry as it is Somalia probably has tons of underground rivers.

[waryaa]

The UN and western aid agencies spend 100s of millions on what they call humanitarian assistance for Somalia, farming equipment not included! I am sure if these guys go to the UNDP office in Bosaso they will be told you are entitled for free grain and you don't need to do all this hard work.

Somalis, wake up! We have been strangled by food dumping western agencies.

Zyb, the good news is that the water is not far, some times like 8 - 10 meters.

[Shift]

For you to get a better understanding of how third world countries are dealt with read..

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by john perkins.

[waryaa]

thnx shift, actually the paperback edition is (was a few years ago) in my home. I will definitely read it.

For you to get a better understanding of how third world countries are dealt with read..

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by john perkins.

[AbdiWahab252]

Warya,

We need to break the dependency culture. We have become a nation of beggars Its become easier to beg than to be self sufficient.

[waryaa]

awahab, the one million question is how?

What I noticed is that people who make money from NGOs live lavishly while others who mame similar or more from business, etc live in modest life. Also, in a hot August day, I witnessed a chartered UN plane carrying ONE MAN while about 100 of us were cramped into 60 yr old Russian plane. It is possible that one individual was here to sign a few documents or oversee some skills training program in somebody's basement. UN money well spent!

We need to break the dependency culture. We have become a nation of beggars Its become easier to beg than to be self sufficient.

[udun]

How does one determine where to dig a water well? As dry as it is Somalia probably has tons of underground rivers.

Geothermal energy is another thing that is very abandunt in all Somali regions around the red sea. In Nugaal valleey, if you dig few meters, you will reach water right away.

[samadoon-waaxid]

The UN and western aid agencies spend 100s of millions on what they call humanitarian assistance for Somalia, farming equipment not included! I am sure if these guys go to the UNDP office in Bosaso they will be told you are entitled for free grain and you don't need to do all this hard work.

Somalis, wake up! We have been strangled by food dumping western agencies.

Zyb, the good news is that the water is not far, some times like 8 - 10 meters.

bro,r u saying most of the wells are shallow wells in that region? my understanding is they were deep wells something in the neighborhood of 300m
and is there any agricultural organizations that help them with training,equpipment ,seeds?

[samadoon-waaxid]

How does one determine where to dig a water well? As dry as it is Somalia probably has tons of underground rivers.

Geothermal energy is another thing that is very abandunt in all Somali regions around the red sea. In Nugaal valleey, if you dig few meters, you will reach water right away.

udun, what kind of technology is used for well determination in nugaal godan horto? do they use the GPS well locating technology or they just dig it in a random place.

[samadoon-waaxid]

D/P

[udun]

How does one determine where to dig a water well? As dry as it is Somalia probably has tons of underground rivers.

Geothermal energy is another thing that is very abandunt in all Somali regions around the red sea. In Nugaal valleey, if you dig few meters, you will reach water right away.

udun, what kind of technology is used for well determination in nugaal godan horto? do they use the GPS well locating technology or they just dig it in a random place.

Samadoon, they use it different techniques. Some of it has to do how low the ground is, soft, and any nearby springs. That is if they want to dig the well from brand new. They avoid f the surrounding rocks are mostly what they call "mamac". Those rocks are very hard and take considerable amount of time to remove. The ground should be mostly dedib (gypsum) and the soil must be mostly caco3. The way you identify the dedib soil is it is very white unlike the normal sand that is reddish.

Sometimes crow or baboons (monkeys) would find the well and that is how existing wells are disvovered.

But in N ugaal Godan, if you dig 3 meter, you would reach water. Somehow, people use to believe that it could not be used for farming in the past but now that fiction was easily busted. I have seen people using it for farming and trees regeneration.