Started by young people who refused to look away

Great Noble Organization began in 2022 when a group of young people in Garissa watched a family eat from a rubbish bin outside a mosque after Friday prayers. They pooled their own money that same evening and bought groceries.

That small act became a habit. The habit became an organisation. Within a year, GNO had registered as a Community Based Organisation in Kenya, expanded to Garissa, and had completed over 80 food distributions.

We are not funded by foreign governments or large institutional donors. We are funded by people in the diaspora, local businesses, and Somalis who care. Our board is made up of people under 35. Our field workers live in the same neighbourhoods they serve.

Our long-term goal is to build a full orphanage in Garissa with classrooms, a medical bay, and safe housing — a permanent home for children who have none.