Shabelle Education Umbrella was founded in 2003 by a group of Somali intellectuals with diverse professional backgrounds as a non-governmental (NGO), not for profit, non-religious and non-political community based organization, after when they knew that the children of Middle Shabelle Region do not have basic quality education and after when the education institutions collapsed, Hence, the organization went on to develop its structure and currently is one of the organizations which are actively operational in Middle Shabelle Region with a clear mandate, organizational structure and guided by a constitution. Under the umbrella, all the schools follow the same school term and duration of the academic year and the timely examinations have been harmonized in the region, this has further strengthened the coordination mechanisms of all the schools that come under Shabelle Education Umbrella.

Significant achievements have been reached during SHEDU activities in Middle Shabelle region, the number of schools have increased, enrolment rate increased.

Shabelle Education Umbrella has engaged all these measurable achievements with the help of the community and with the existence of different local authorities since we host volatile situation, so that this shows you that Shabelle Umbrella is competent and tactful in the implementation of projects with no challenge, because it has good relationship with the community and its leadership and has experience in dealing with the community of Middle Shabelle Region.

SHEDU has a clear financial management system, because it pays its staff with the receipt of payment voucher, records the accounts to file for future references, the accountant administers the overall management of the cash while the chairman approves it, SHEDU has local account with the cash transferred to it, the check is managed by the admin/finance, chairman, and the accountant to avoids money laundering and using organizational cash for personal purposes, the executive committee reviews the financial statements quarterly and there are two audits, internal auditing and external auditing.

The education committee of shabeele educational umbrella took the lead of education activities in the area of middle shabeele region. During that period significant achievements were observed.

Our achievement includes improving and increasing of the enrolment, teachers, and remuneration through mobilization and introducing regular school fee and monitoring system.
The group has establishment standardized academic school year and exams and strengthening as well as school parent/community education committees’ involvement. The experience and qualifications of middle shabeele region committee in the field of education permits them to effectively implement the education activities.

As indigenous people, they felt that they had the ability to access the Education and act as a bridge between the suffering of lack of education and desperate local communities and the International organizations which came the country to help the Somali people. This was the philosophy behind the establishment of SHEDU. The newly established Umbrella -SHEDU actively participated in the alleviation of the educational opportunities during 2003 – 2021 with the help of UNICEF, education section as well as Local Communities in terms of Mobilization CECs, Mentoring primary and inexperienced teachers, provision of teachers’ incentives for emergency education in some of the villages of Mahaday, Jowhar and Balad Districts of Middle Shabelle Region and still committed to fight for that.

Since then, Shabelle Education Umbrella has been able to implement many Successful projects in a concerted effort with the local communities at one part and the international organization/donors on the other part. Implemented Projects will be indicated as annex to the profile of SHEDU.