Why we started
Young people were risking dangerous journeys to Europe and America — because the opportunity to build a life didn't exist at home.
The people behind Hope & Future are connected to East Africa and kept seeing the same pattern repeat — families losing children to a journey that too often ended badly, taken for want of any alternative. We began working together in 2023 and were formally established as a Norwegian association in 2025.
Mogadishu. Children in the community where Hope & Future works.
What we work on
Improving living conditions in vulnerable areas of Africa, with particular focus on Somalia.
Livelihoods
Small businesses and training so families earn an income of their own.
Education
Support for poor and orphaned children to get into school and stay there.
Health
Access to health services, health knowledge, and mental health support.
Two communities, named
Somalia — Mogadishu, Waberi
Kenya — Nairobi, Kibra
Who runs Hope & Future
Communities ask. We build it with them.
Communities come to us
Projects start with direct requests from the communities themselves, not from an office in Norway.
Local people do the work
Our staff and volunteers on the ground run each project, alongside local partners.
The community contributes
Communities put in their own labour and, where they can, materials. It's a partnership.
We're new, and we're open about it
Hope & Future began working together in 2023 and was formally established in Norway in 2025. Until now we have funded our work independently, without external support — which is part of why we don't yet publish detailed figures for some of our earlier campaigns.
New Beginning is the first project we are documenting publicly from the start: what it costs, what it delivers, and what changes for the families involved. That is the standard we intend to hold ourselves to from here.
The formal bits
| Registered name | HÅP & FREMTID |
| Organisasjonsnummer | 835 783 952 |
| Legal form | Forening / lag / innretning |
| Registered | 1 July 2025 |
| Registered address | Værftsgata 10, 1511 Moss, Norge |
| Contact | info@hopefutureglobal.org |
Vedtekter, årsmelding og årsregnskap are available to funders and partners on request — get in touch.
See what we're building now
New Beginning is helping single mothers in Mogadishu open shops of their own.