A new three-pronged approach to provide a package of aid to Bahraini families has been launched by one of Bahrain’s oldest charitable societies.
The Human Welfare Committee of the Eslah Charity Society inaugurated its striking branding as ‘Kaaf Humanitarian’ to start 2021 with a new identity and a renewed vision focused on sustainable support.
Kaaf chief executive Mohammed Sayyar explained the inspired process at a Press conference held at its newly-renovated office in Riffa.
Kaaf Humanitarian will be operating on three main pillars
- relief
- stability
- and development.
The overall goal will not be just aiding people but giving them the tools to support themselves in the long run.
“We have established a social research unit. When a family applies for help we will study their situation and help them grow and develop so that they can become productive and self-sufficient,” said Mr Sayyar.
“If they start producing, as we have seen with some of our other success stories, we can help them become entrepreneurs by helping them benefit from Tamkeen services, for example, help them secure loans and provide them with training.
“Once they’ve reached that stage they can go into ‘accelerator’ mode where they can develop relationships with stakeholders and major traders.”
Kaaf Humanitarian charity works executive officer Shaikh Tariq Al Shaikh gave an example of how one talented and determined woman was helped to develop a business and grew it to the point where she has started donating to the charity fund to help others.
At the start she and her family were in a desperate financial situation and the charity provided her with coupons to cover food and school supplies for her children and over time trained her to make perfumes.
Her talent for perfume-making blossomed and Kaaf Humanitarian helped her take part in exhibitions to promote her products, until she was able to generate enough money to support her family and prosper.
She was able to renovate her home, send her children to university, and was able to give back to the community. This is the kind of success story they want to replicate with other Bahraini families through Kaaf Humanitarian.
“These may not be new projects but we aim to deliver a new way of providing a service with a clear strategy.
Mr Sayyar
“The work has become structured with more follow-up opportunities so if we give aid to a family we don’t just stop there. We follow up with them until they become confident and stable,” Shaikh Tariq told the GDN.
“We want to get them to a point where they no longer need our help. If we find a family in debt and they want to send their son to university or they have a sick family member, we want to approach the situation holistically, instead of only solving one part of the problem.”
He also announced that they have launched a campaign to support people who are being detained for debt issues, as well as a Covid-19 initiative.
“We have heard of many cases of citizens with loans and debt who are being detained for their court cases, so we launched our campaign to help return them back to their families,” he added.
“We also launched the ‘We Need Your Help’ campaign to support people who have suffered because of the pandemic. We take their information and look into their cases and we have been able to help hundreds of families and we are still supporting them,” he said.
In addition to their offices in several locations all over Bahrain, Kaaf Humanitarian has also launched a mobile unit to deliver goods and provide support directly to those in most desperate need.
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