BadhBaadin( 00 — start here )

Accessibility is the practice of designing products, systems, and social life so that everyone — regardless of geography, income, or infrastructure — can take part in society and in modernity. Across the world, a significant share of people are shut out from the life‑saving tools and technology built to respond to climate change, simply because those tools were never designed to reach them.

BadhBaadin exists to close that gap for the regions of Somalia affected by drought, flooding, lack of food sovereignty, and increasingly severe El Niño weather conditions.

This year matters more than most: 2026 is a super El Niño year, and the region is forecast to see significantly increased rainfall from August through December. Handled well, that rainfall is an opportunity — for rain catchment, for regreening, for replenished water tables. Handled without preparation, it's a threat — flood damage, waterborne disease, and a sharp rise in malaria. Adequate flood defences, water catchment infrastructure, and early‑warning technology are needed now, ahead of the rain, not after it.

BadhBaadin sits at the intersection of AI and hardware technology and the environmental and agricultural challenges facing the region. It was founded out of an unrelenting advocacy for environmental justice for the indigenous communities of the Horn of Africa. Founder Sumaya Hassan is also continuously learning — undertaking courses and research to track the environmental solutions being built elsewhere, so they can be adapted here.

The aim is simple: make the technology already protecting other parts of the world — in hardware and in software — available to the communities most exposed to the climate crisis.