ABOUT US

Skills Developments organization helps communities from the East and Horn of Africa develop skills to integrate into their new society. Skills development encourages community self-reliance, participation in development and various productive activities that the community is engaged in. SDO creates an enabling environment in which the community can benefit. SDO staff are committed to reaching out to the community openly and impartially and to serving to foster understanding and develop new skills for the future that benefit them and their families.

Skills Developments Organization is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that aims to address the lack of skills and challenges of employment among refugees and first-generation immigrants in Washington. 

SDO staff, board members, and volunteers bring a deep understanding of the diverse needs of King County’s new communities. Thanks to the hard work of our diverse faculty, and philanthropic efforts of our donors, we are able to create new skills that can achieve a livable wage employment opportunity for immigrants and refugees in Washington State. 

By providing skills in-language, culturally competent program designs that responsively support the goals of each client, we focus to build sustainable self-reliance for the first-generation immigrant and recently refugees in Washington State.