Direct Aid Society and the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs of Tunis have signed a cooperation agreement in order to make joint work programs between the Ministry and the Direct Aid Society in the field of economic empowerment for the Tunisian women and helping poor families and women-headed households and taking care of orphans and the development of civil society institutions.
The agreement was signed yesterday at the headquarters of the Direct Aid Society in Kuwait, where Ms. Sihem Badi (Tunisian Minister of Women & Family Affairs) signed on behalf of the Tunisian Party and Dr. Abdul Rahman Saleh Mahalan, the chairman of the Board of Directors signed on behalf of Direct Aid Society.
By virtue of this agreement, Direct Aid Society will fund, implement and supervise fully on programs and joint projects between it and the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs of Tunis in the fields of family, women and care of orphans and other programs being agreed upon later. On the other hand, the ministry will be committed to provide the data and the available studies in those fields and to facilitate all the necessary legal and administrative procedures for implementing of these projects and programs. The ministry also will make a coordination between the Direct Aid Society and the governmental & private Tunisian societies to implement the joint programs in the fields agreed upon.
This agreement is considered as a framework agreement, after which the necessary executive programs will be determined to achieve its agreed upon goals through a joint committee formed to follow up the implementation of the agreement articles.
Last year , Direct Aid Society of Kuwait opened its field office in Tunis, through which it began to carry out its relief & charitable programs which will include the next year 1000 development projects for a thousand of poor families at a total estimated cost of a million and half Euros. The Society previously provided aids to those harmed by snowfall in some villages in the north of Tunis and it implemented a number of seasonal programs such as Iftar Saim (Feeding the fasting people) Meat Distribution on Ad’ha.