AL-MASDAR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION is a national NGO, was founded in Feb 2020 in Baidoo, Bay region, Somalia as a humanitarian and development organization by local Somali intellectuals and Diaspora Somali community members. The purpose is to provide sustainable livelihoods intervention opportunities to support the most vulnerable communities both in the urban and rural areas of South-Central Somalia consequently will have access to better education, adequate primary health care, and employment opportunities, respect the ideals of humanitarian aids, education, job creation and eventually improved sustainable community development.

The organization is registered under the Somali Interior Ministry in the Department of Humanitarian Affairs both FGS & FMS. Subsequent to series of consultative meetings in Somalia and outside of Somalia, the founders responded to the urgent need of Somali people and contributed into the emergency humanitarian crisis and development of the country rehabilitation and reconstruction after years of destructive conflicts and successive droughts and famines which led to the total collapse of socio-economic, stability, education and political institutions.