12. Holiday help in Somalia
12. Socoto ajnebita ee Soomaaliya.
Foreign visitors in Somalia.
AMATEUR RADIYOO WAXAA LAGA FURIKARAA XAAFAD SI ADUUNKA LOOGULA XIRIIRO.
Amateur radio can open the villages of Somalia to the world.
Ham Radio in Somalia is a key to international friendship, knowledge, employment and develpment.
Somalia sunset.
On the road between Galkayo and the Puntland State Capital of Garowe, Somalia.
September 2007.
Semi arid zone low height spaced Somalia trees.
On the road between Galkayo and the Puntland State Capital of Garowe, Somalia.
September 2007.
Red eye Somalia bird.
At Radio Galkayo.
October 2007.
Soo dhawaynaya saaxiibada raadiyaha ee ajnabiga ah iyo caawiyayaasha aadanaha ee dhamaan gobolada si ay u booqdaan tuuladooda.
Welcome foreign radio friends and hams from all provinces to visit your village.
CAAWIYAYAASHA BANII’AADAMKA WAXAY KA SAMAYNKARAAN SOOMAALIYA SAAXIIBO IYO NABAD IYAGOO:
Hams can make friends and peace for Somalia by:
1. Kula kulan booqdayaasha garoonka.haddii xaafadaadu ama tuuladaadun fogtahay waxaad ruuxa booqdaha ah usamayn kartaa inuu la kulmo ruux kamid ah jamciyadda raadyaha ammeter.
Meeting visitors at the airport. If your village is far away you can have the visitor met by someone from the Somalia Amateur Radio Friendship and Emergency Network (SARFEN).
2. Caawi booqdayaasha qaad qalabka uu wato hiwaayadlaha amitar raadiyoo oo uu doonayo inuu isticmaalo uuna ulalaabto dibadda, booqdayaashu ma baxshaan wax canshuur ah oo laga qaado qalabkooda ay ugu tala galeen inay la noqdaan ama ay baxshaan.
Help the visitors carry any amateur radio equipment they have which they may want to use and later take back overseas or donate. Visitors pay no Somalia tax on personal equipment that they intend to take back overseas or donate.
3. Ugee booqdayaasha jamciyadda hiwaayad layda raadiyaha ee Soomaaliya (SARFEN) sidaa awgeedna waa ay ka codsankaraan oo si dhakhso ah uga heli karaan shatiga ameterka raadyaha. Caawiyayaasha aadiyahar ee ajnabiga ah waa in la xasuusiyaa inay keenaan koobiga shatiga amitarka ee wadankooda iyo sawirka baasaboorka. Shatiga caawiyaha aadanaha waxaa lagu bixinayaa magaca waaxda isgaarsiinta ee Soomaaliya.
Take visitors to the Somali Amateur Radio Friendship and Emergency Network (SARFEN) so they can apply and receive a Somalia amateur radio license immediately. Foreign radio hams should be reminded to bring a copy of their home amateur radio license and a passport size photo. A Ham license is then issued on behalf of the Department of Telecommunications, Somalia.
VISITING A VILLAGE THAT HAS NO AIRPORT.
4. Haddii aadan awoodin in aad tagto garoonka samee koox kamid ah jamciyadda oo booqdaha la kulanta una soo gudbisa magaaladaada.
If you are not able to be at the airport have SARFEN see that the visitor is met, receives their Somalia visitor amateur radio license and is transported to your town.
5. Qaabil booqdaha imaanaya qalabkiisa /qalabkeeda inta uu joogo tuuladaada.
Meet the arriving visitor and his/her equipment in your village.
6. Iminka booqduhu wuxuu joogaa xaafadaada in badan ayaad is baran kartaan iyo xiriirada iyadoo lagu cawimayo hagaajinta xarumaha uu booqanaayo aadna tusto booqdaha xaruntaada, saaxiibadaa iyo magaalada.
The visitor is now in your village. You can learn more about each other and communications by helping set up the visitor’s ham station and showing the visitor your station, friends and town.
7. Dadka xaafadda waxaa ay la kulmi karaan ruuxa ay codkiisa ka maqli jireen raadiyahaaga. Xaafadu waxay siin kartaa qol iyo cunto booqdayaasha iyo waliba doon iyo gaari waxayna ku wareejin karaan xaafada dhaw. Nolol dheer oo saaxiibtinmo ayaa hadda ubilaabatay faa’iidada xaafadda, booqdaha iyo Soomaaliyaba.
The villagers can meet the person whose voice they have heard from your radio. The village can have a room and food for visitors as well as boat and car trips and walks around the nearby villages. A life long friendship has now started to the benefit of the village, the visitor and Somalia.
8. Booqdayaasha ajnabiga ah ee uyimid inay la kulmaan “saaxiibadooda mawjadaha hawada” waxay ku abuuraysaa xiiso badan barashadooda Soomaaliya. Booqdayaashu waxay kulaaban doonaan wadamadooda waxayna usheegi doonaan qof walbo wakhtigii fiicnaa ee ay soo qaateen.
The foreign visitors who come to meet their Somalia ham radio friends will create more interest in Somalia when they return home and tell everyone about their great holiday in Somalia.
AMATEUR RADIO BENEFITS SOMALIA.
9. Midkamid ah faa’idooyinka tiradabadan ee uu leeyahay raadiyaha hiwaayadda ah ayaa ah xiisaha iyo saaxiibtinimada uu ka dhex abuurayo dadka Soomaaliyeed iyo kuwa dalalka kale ku nool.
One of the benefits of a large number of radio amateurs in Somalia is the interest it will generate and the friendships that will form between Somalia and the peoples in every country of the world.
10. Waxaa hadda laga shaqeynayaa waa awood isgaarsiineed oo aan qiimo saas ah ugu fadhin dawladda halkaasoo dadka xiiseeya hiwaayadaha adeegsiga raadiyaha si ay u dhisaan awood ay kula xiriiraan gabi ahaanba dalalka ku yaala aduun weynaha. Sida badan marka dadka Soomaaliya ku nool badankood aysan haysanin ama aysan iibsankarin qalabka war lalis qabtaha ah.
What is being developed is a communications capability at no cost to the Government where individuals interested in the hobby of radio communications will build up a capability to connect the entire country and the world. All at a time when most people in Somalia don’t have and cannot afford transceivers.
11. Hawl galayaasha raadiyaha waxay caawin karan dadka, ururka Bisha cas ee Soomaalida, ama ururka masiibooyinka ka hortaga ee dalka iyo dhammaan ururada gargaarka bani’aadanimo ku taxaluqa, dawlada iyo hay’adaha aan dawliga ahayn ee qeybta ka ah “enternetka aan qiimaha joogin” oo adeegsanaya adeegyada ayqabtaan hawl galiyayaasha raadiyaha Ham xiliyada lagu jiro masiibooyinka.
Radio operators can help the people, the Somalia Red Crescent, the National Disaster authorities and all humanitarian, Government and non Government agencies as part of a “zero cost Internet” using the service of HAM radio operators during emergency times.
Ham Radio friendship resulted in the donation of an ambulance to Somalia.
In Galkayo, Somalia on the 12 April 2007 a ceremony was held that included thanks to amateur radio (ham radio- Helping All Mankind radio) operators for helping facilitate the donation of an ambulance to the Galkayo Region Hospital, (700km north of Mogadishu), Puntland State, Somalia.
Dr Ahmed Abdikader, who is Regional Hospital Director in the Mudug region of Somalia thanked Dr Mohamed Jama Salad for getting a donated ambulance through the friendship he made with Italian amateur radio operators during their radio holidays in Galkayo, Somalia.
He said this ambulance was an urgent need and he thanked the people of Italy, the radio amateurs and the NGO called Avis (Italian blood donating organisation).
Dr Mohamed Jama Salad, the Neurosurgeon in Galkayo, Somalia thanked the participants at the ceremony who included Sam Voron (VK2BVS, 6O0A), Filip Rogister (ON4TA, 6O0F), Mayor of Galkayo, District Commissioner of the Galkayo Government council, Galkayo Hospital Doctors, Manager of telephone companies and business men.
The aim of the meeting was to present the ambulance and its key to the regional hospital director.
He said this donation was from Avis who run the Italian blood donation bank.
Dr Mohamed Jama Salad thanked the amateur radio operators especially the Italian hams who conducted a DX radio operating holiday expedition in 2005 and 2006 in Galkayo, Somalia.
Silvano Borsa (I2YSB, 6O0CW) lead the group of 5 Italian amateur radio operators and another group of 7 Italian hams in 2006 to Galkayo, Somalia.
He said that "the Italian amateur radio team opened the relations between Somalia and Avis" (the Italian donors) and he said "I am giving a special thanks to Sam Voron (VK2BVS, 6O0A) who made it easy for ham radio operators to visit Galkayo, Somalia". He said "I want to welcome Filip (ON4TA, 6O0F) who is currently on a 2 week amateur radio holiday in Galkayo, Somalia".
He said "The well equipped ambulance that cost Euro 75,000 ($US120,000) will be used to transport people with spinal cord injuries. All we received was made easy by the efforts of the Amateur Radio operators. The Ham radio operators are represented at the ceremony by Sam Voron (VK2BVS, 6O0A) from Australia and Filip Rogister (ON4TA, 6O0F) from Belgium". "We also welcome the SARFEN (Somalia Amateur Radio Friendship and Emergency Network) President Mr. Mohamed Yasin Isak 6o0my".
"I am saying to the Ham Radio people to please keep doing what you are doing to help Somalia especially Galkayo".
Mr. Mohyadin Abdi Bihi, the Galkayo Mayor said "he is happy to see the hospital receive a well equipped ambulance because the 2 previous ambulances were just small buses. I can say this is a victory (advance) for the people of Somalia. I am thanking the overseas people who made easy our path to receive such a gift. The ambulance will be useful to help road accident victims. I am saying please continue these efforts to bring help from overseas countries to Somalia".
"Our situation in Somalia is very poor. We don’t see many improvements like we see today that helps the life of the Somali people".
Mr. Abdirushid Ali Hashi, Govenor of Mudug region in Somalia said "as he looked at Sam (VK2BVS, 6O0A) and Filip (ON4TA, 6O0F) he noted that Sam had visited Somalia 13 times between 1993 to 2007 and he was now considered to be a member of the Galkayo, Somalia community. He hoped that Filip (ON4TA, 6O0F) who was visiting Africa and Somalia for the first time would continue to come to Galkayo, Somalia like Sam.
I am thanking Avis who donated this ambulance".
"I am saying to the ham radio people please keep helping the Somali people and help us find a blood donation bank.
I am saying especially to the SARFEN (Somalia Amateur Radio Friendship and Emergency Network) President Mr. Mohamed Yasin Isak 6O0MY and his 2 friends Sam (VK2BVS, 6O0A) from Australia and Filip (ON4TA, 6O0F) from Belgium to take our message to the world.
Amateur Radio holidays in Somalia by the 2 Italian teams of amateur radio operators in 2005 and 2006 resulted in a friendship that grew and this donation of an ambulance to Somalia in 2007.
Galkayo hospital and the donated ambulance in 2007.
Dr Mohamed Jama Salad (Neurosurgeon) is in the middle.
In 1997 at Radio Galkayo located in the Galkayo Police station, Galkayo, Somalia.
Yuusuf Cali Xasan "Shareef" (Yusuf Ali Hasan "Sharif"), silent key.
His Amateur Radio call sign was 6O0SC.
Foundation member and radio technician at Radio Free Somalia (free for all to use).
1993 Radio student “Sharif ”, 6O0SC.
1993 Completed the Amateur Radio license course.
1993 Requested and received the ham radio call sign 6O0SC.
1993 Radio technician at Radio Free Somalia (now Radio Galkayo).
2000 Killed (silent key, died) by anti-Ethiopia persons while travelling in Ethiopia.
“Radio Free Somalia” (Later known as Radio Galkayo) was also the Amateur radio club station (call sign 6O0Z) and was located at the Galkayo Police station, Galkacyo, Somalia from 1993.
The short wave broadcast station and the amateur radio club were relocated in 2000 to a new Radio Galkayo compound in Central Galkayo.
On the left is Australian radio ham, Bill Main (Australian call signs VK4ZD, VK6ZX and Somalia call sign 6O0X) who came with his wife (Diane Main, VK4KYL, VK6KYL, 6O0YL) in their first visit to Somalia.
Bill and Diane travelled from Australia to Somalia because they developed a great friendship with Sharif who was always using the amateur two-way radio to make conversations and built friendships around the world.
Somalia Lion cubs.
The owner puts his finger in the mouth of a Somalia Lion.
Galkayo zoo, Somalia.
October 2007.
Contact: Sam Voron VK2BVS, 6O0A.