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, humanitarian, health care, and wash, respect the ideals of human rights, and eventually improved sustainable community development.

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

The vulnerable communities in ABF targeted areas and Somalis in general live in extremely poor and under-developed conditions. Their livelihoods are broadly based on subsistence farming and pastoralism with limited opportunity to earn wages.

The predominant livelihood systems are;
1) Pastoralism
a) Agro-pastoralist
b) Agriculturalist: agriculture-based livelihood.

2) Urban Residents and IDPs:
Successive conflicts, droughts and famine had eroded the livelihoods coping mechanisms of these communities. The negative occurrences instigated a huge number of civilian population displaced internally and refugees’ camps in neighboring countries.
ABF humanitarian and development intervention programs are holistic, people-centered, community-based and sustainable. Therefore, sustainable livelihoods approaches are adopted for all ABF strategic and short-term program focus in Somalia.

ABF sustainable livelihoods program interventions only add to the current humanitarian and developmental commitments in Somalia, by utilizing principally home-ground solutions to vulnerable community challenges and needs. ABF corresponds to the existing international and national humanitarian and development strategies.

The organization puts into operation participatory approaches, strategic planning and community mobilization to find solutions to community problems. It offers a range of programming and support in: Akika, Ak’ka Kurban, Food Security and Livelihoods, Health, Formal Education, WASH, Youth Capacity Development Programs,