The health care challenges in the region: Availability, Accessibility, Efficiency and Quality. Even a minuscule amount of medicine aids could have eased the human sufferings in the region and could have a profound impact, no matter how small it may seem to us people in the western world.

Ogaden Youth Network intends to prioritize areas of importance and then draw an outline to carry out health care aids throughout the region starting with the most stricken areas. First of all, we will analyze and set out a facts finding mission of the health care conditions of the nine regions that Ogaden consists of and come up with a start point where our first health care activities should be carried out. This will be followed by a mission to fit the needs on the grounds to our available resources to capitalize on our meager resources. It's our plan to create task a team that will review whether the current healthcare goals and objectives for the designated priority areas are attainable or not and make any deemed adjustments in order to serve the purpose. After the review, we will make adjustments where needed. After this accomplished, meet with traditional leaders, faith-based organizations, existing medical communities, NGOs and business to obtain their views and to discuss ways to facilitate their active participation. Last but no least, will be to carry out actual activities on the grounds.

Areas of Health Care Focus

1. Treatment
2. Prevention
3. Awareness and Health Care Education
4. Counseling and Emotional Support

There are challenges and obstacles and we should find ways to overcome them.

1. Human Resources
2. Medical Facilities
3. Medical Resources, Supplies and Equipments
4. Monetary Funds

These goals and objectives are as follows:

• Initiate campaign for health awareness: aids, TB, Malaria, Malnutrition, infectious diseases- preventions, treatments, care and support
• Distribute medicines, supplies and equipment to Hospitals
• Assist the existing medical communities as well as facilities
• Provide medical training for Shamans and midwives
• Provide medicine and medical Equipments for the hospitals
• Hire professionally trained doctors- Monitoring, research, and evaluation
• Establish effective healthcare system
• Build hospitals and medical facilities

3. Reliable Public Infrastructure 

• Improve and build public transportation systems
• Develop communication network such as telecommunication, post office and public facilities
• Build wells and irrigation systems
• Establish a sustainable energy resources
• Encourage land cultivation
• Introduce pest control programs

4. Sustainable Environment: 

• Establish environmental policies that preserve the natural resources in the region
• Preserve the integrity of the land, water, air etc
• Prevent the soil erosion and deforestation
• Establish a sustainable economic market-Agriculture and animals
• Promote CO2 sequestrating 
• Promote reforestation
• Promote agro forest
• Promote environmental awareness
• Create and encourage the use of alternative and renewable energy sources instead of charcoal for domestic use

There are four areas selected for Sustainable Development activities are: 

• Energy
• Waste
• Transport
• Bio diversity
• Water

• The goal is to promote the creation of an enabling environment for sustainable agricultural development, which will ensure a rapid transition from poor to high productivity agriculture.
• Advocacy Strategy
• Assisting in building at national, sub-regional and regional levels through the organization of seminars, workshops, training and advisory-services;
• Advocacy, awareness raising and policy advice through the organization of meetings, field visits and preparation of parliamentary documents, policy briefs and other papers; implementing and formulating policy and program, monitoring and evaluation;
• Networking and exchange of experiences with partners with other NGO that advocate sustainable development.
• Building Mechanical or electrified water pumping relieves women’s burdens and makes basic household sanitation and subsistence activities much healthier and less time-consuming.
• In remote areas, solar, micro-hydro, and wind-powered equipment can be used to pump water and also provide electricity. These technologies can be combined with diesel generators to form hybrid systems.

Effective water governance

• To supports the sustainable use of marine, coastal and freshwater resources and improved access to water supply and sanitation services. This requires establishing local, national and regional water control, Access to sustainable energy services
• Establishing a system that supports energy activities to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development objectives at the local, national and global levels. Our work will be focusing on strengthening national policy frameworks to support energy for poverty reduction;
• Promoting energy services to support growth and equity with specific focus on the situation of women; promoting clean energy technologies to tone down climate change.
• Increasing access to generate income/create Market for Ogaden people such as creating market for CO2 sequestering.
• Sustainable land management to combat desertification and land degradation
• To Promote reforestation(4,000 acres a year)
• Establishing nurseries
• Agro-forestry infrastructure
• Community level
• Strengthening the capacity of local communities and institutions to
• Manage their resources in a sustainable and equitable way.
• Promoting national and regional policy and empowering local level
• Participation that enable equitable local-level decision-making,
• Influencing global policies and institutions better to support the
• Development needs and priorities of dry land peoples.

Source of Funds

Donor Contributions:

• Members' monthly contributions
• Admission fees
• Ogaden community small businesses membership fees

Events and Activities:

• Fundraising
• Making and selling some symbolic artifacts
• Volunteer service and time in exchange for resources and membership
• Selling our talents

Donations:

• Hospitals
• Schools and school libraries
• Public libraries
• Other educational institutions
• Non-Profit Organizations
• Medical schools
• Medical Communities
• Community members
• Relief Agencies
• Humanitarian Agencies
• Corporations
• Small businesses
• Health Agencies
• Faith-based community
• Private donors

State Grants-We submitted our application to the appropriate government Agency that handles Non-Profit Organizations and will ensure to follow the procedures to fulfill all the requirements to receive as much a we deserve as an Organization.

Foundations-We intend to campaign and target all the foundations that are in our reach, work with them and ask for resources that they can offer.