Barwaaqo Voluntary Organization (BVO) is a non-political, non-governmental and non-profit making development action-oriented and advocacy organization that was founded in 1996 by a committed gender balanced group in Somaliland. The organization understood that its domain needs to be as wide as the issues faced by the millions of underprivileged throughout the country. Barwaaqo Voluntary organization strives to perform social development work in Somaliland. BVO nurtures the status of being a formal NGO.