Somali-Canadian Education and Rural Development Organization (SCERDO) is a non-profit and registered charity organization under paragraph 149(1)(f) of the Income Tax Act (The Act), which started its formal operations on November 1999 in Canada. SCERDO is a community-based organization with a strong core group of professionals and volunteers who are social activists, computer programmers, engineers, economists, administrators,educators, house wives, students and elders, who all share one common bond a sincere desire to make a difference for those who need the light of knowledge and motivation in order to improve their lives.