Survey: Unemployment major
concern among Somalilanders
By
Zuhur Yassin Ibrahim--Somaliland
Somaliland
today faces many kinds of problems; poverty, lack of proper health services,
roads, electricity, etc. It is hard to see people taking initiatives to
solve their own problems. It seems people are waiting for others to solve it
for them and in turn those people are waiting for others and the circle goes
round and no change.
I took to
the streets of Hargeisa to find out and collect opinions on what is the role
of the community in making a difference and to get the views of the
citizens. I surveyed a population of 45 people (35 Female, 10 male) and
asked them questions about their involvement in taking action and their
views on the problems facing the country today. Though the size of the
people surveyed was small I found interesting observations.
The results
for the question - what were the major problem/s facing the country were
that 40% of the people think that unemployment is a major problem facing the
country. Illiteracy was the next major problem with 20% while issue like
lack of recognition, Khat, roads and lack of cleanliness were 11.11%,
11.11%, 6.66%, 8.8 % respectively. When asked if as a citizen they can make
a difference the vast majority of 73.3% answered they could make a
difference while the remaining 26.67 answered no. Above half 55.5% are
already involved with some action taking in the community while the other
44.4% are not which shows that there needs to be more community mobilization
and awareness. Almost all 97.7 % are ready to work to make a difference if
they were given the knowledge and information and/or the money to help
people within the community. When I asked about who is responsible for
solving the problems facing Somaliland 84.4% of the surveyed people answer
the government while 15.5 answered the community. Many of the respondents
advised people, organization and government to work hard, with honesty,
justice, to educate the people and most of all to work united.