KAALO Aid and Development is a non-profit, humanitarian, and development organization with its headquarters located in Garowe, Puntland Somalia. The organization was established on Oct 28th, 1991 just after the collapse of the Somali central government. The organization was established by a volunteer group of intellectuals who intended to help vulnerable groups who were displaced from their homes due to the civil war that erupted with the fall of the Formal Government in 1990. The aim was to provide lifesaving and recovery interventions to vulnerable and destitute households and communities in the country With time, KAALO has diversified its programming portfolio to encompass emergency humanitarian relief, resilience and sustainable development, and human rights and governance programming