1. Bardhera Primary School  

2. Dr Qaasim Primary School

3. Bardere Farm Project

4. Bardera vocational training pilot project

5. Bardera Primary Health Care school

6. Bardera Adult education School

7. Bardera Women Empowerment program

Bardera Primary School (BPS)

Bardera primary school consists seven classrooms with two shifts- morning and afternoon shifts. A total of 680 students from grade one to grade eight attends the school. Links below  you will see the list of the orphans that needs sponsoring for school fee and learning material. Any one who volunteers to sponsor one child is very welcome and is kindly asked to contact us for further info.

Dr Qasim primary school

Dr Qasim primary school was built by HIRDA in 2000 and attributed to DR Qassim who was Bardera medical dr. murdered by  bandits.The school consists four classrooms  of two shifts-morning and afternoon. A total of 390 students from grade one to grade four attends the school. Links below  you will see the list of the orphans that needs sponsoring for school fee and learning material. Any one who volunteers to sponsor one child is very welcome and is kindly asked to contact us for further info.

Bardere Farm Project

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Bardhere farm project was established in 15/11/2003 at Hilfato area30 km away from the town on the left bank of the south down Stream of Juba River. The farm size is 40 ha of irrigable land. When the farm was transferred to be HIRDA’s had 4 maturely grown mango trees and almost 15 ha being grown with maize. It has also two small water pumps of one Rocket Anil and 1 Yanmar respectively having a 100mm 80 mm water pipe size and various hand tools.

According to the project plan the area that to be grown was 20 hectares with four main crops respectively five hectares, ( 5ha of maize, 5 ha of sesame, 5ha of onions and 5 ha of tobacco).
When the farm was established, there were already about 15 ha cultivated with maize at early stage of development and before the beginning of the rains it was possible to conduct land preparation and planting of only 5 hectares of sesame.

The rainfall has started intensively on 25/11/2003 and continued until 10/12/2003 causing serious flood damages to many farms in Bardheere district including HIRDA’s farm where the rains have destroyed the entire sesame crop and two hectares of the maize crop. The flood water remained stand still for quite some time (more than three weeks) in the field and the roads access was fully hampered. So the previously given plans of farm activities schedule for Der season from October 2003 to March 2004 was subject to some inevitable delays and modifications to go with the local circumstances as shown in the following annex table 1:

As the flood continued to recede, it was started repeating to undertake the field preparation and growing again the cleared areas with sesame crop in order to replace to the destroyed ones, while planting tobacco, in the period between 22-28/2003, and then onions in the remnant uncultivated areas. Each one of these crops was used to cover for a plot size of about 5 hectares. Now these crops are still remaining under development condition and are receiving the common farm management operations such as weeding, irrigation and control of pests until reaching full maturity and crop harvesting is expected in the next April 2004.

It is worth mentioning that planting of 150 banana suckers (banana plants) was introduced in January by the farm managers in the field. This was intended to be utilized for possible future expansion of the crop in the farm as it is an economically important cash crop. Also a small plot was grown with watermelon in order to diversify the crops and to ensure to gain benefits.

By the end of second week of January 2004 it was conducted harvesting and post-harvesting works such as threshing and packaging of the maize crop which are under way and close to completion.

Vocational training center

HIRDA was very concerned about the young people whose age lies between 18 and 25. These were the young generation who grew in the civil war period. Theybecome prey to the ruthless warlords.HIRDA planned to rehabilitate them through informal education and vocational taraning. Therefore, we established a vocational pilot project in Bardera. The school is in his third year and started now to produce results in terms of products such as furnicture and technicians who can earn their living in decent way. Hirda plans to develop the school further till it stand by itself.

Bardera health awareness program

Since the social services ceased to exist because of the civil war, HIRDA began to began to raise theawareness of health problems. We recruited a group 36 people most of them women to take basic health disease preventive course. The project had positive impact to Bardera community of income and health benefits  because most of the first group who finished the course successfully got jobs from UNECEF

Informal education or Adult Education

Parallel with formal basic education, there is an adult education where adult people learn how to write and read. Beside that they take awareness courses related with the social life of the community such as health awareness, peace and inviroment. It is in his third year and a total of 490 attendees follow regularly.

Bardera women promotion program

This program was intended to support Bardera women’s organisation to support and strengthen

• Already existing local women’s organisation in bardera so as they can effectively take part community building

• Be part of a wide Somali women’s umbrella organisation that can play a role in peace and reconcliation among somali society in regional level as well as nationwide. Besides that it will also help the female society in Bardera community to promote their rights within the community.

They organise monthly two meetings to evaluate what they have so far achieved. Hirda helps them to facilitate these activities and give them capacity building training to improve their organisational knowledge.