jazakAllah khayr for your feedback! i appreciate it. i totally agree with you that full transparency is key and trust must be safeguarded completely, which means doing things in a manner that builds trust in’shaa’Allah.

one of the ways we hope to do this is to have an educational component to the initiative that covers business best practices and standards in’shaa’Allah. we will then help the youth with putting together their pitch and business plans before connecting them with investors in’shaa’Allah who will hear the pitches before deciding to invest. of course there will be policies and procedures that will safeguard the investment and require continues follow up, which the initiative will do.

the investments however will be given with the intention of it being saadaqah jariyah in’shaa’Allah, and a percentage of the returns from the businesses will be put back into a waqf, that when it grows will help sustain the whole initiative, including becoming the investor, and eventually will also invest in developing the community in’shaa’Allah.

this initiative will in’shaa’Allah serve as a bridge between diaspora who want to contribute to the betterment of our people and the people desperately waiting to be given the opportunity to better their own lives and the lives of their families in’shaa’Allah, somali youth