FINNSOM society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan cooperation and service organization. The purpose of the society is to be an international friendship society whose objective is to foster friendship and understanding between Somalis and the Finnish-speaking world, and to develop cultural and social ties between them dating back 1973 when the two countries first established formal diplomatic relations. Likewise, the society aims to take a leading role in the implementation of development cooperation, humanitarian interventions, knowledge transfer and experience sharing between the people of the two countries and within Finnish-Somalis in Finland and Somalia.