Direct Aid, a charity organization that works in Africa, founded by Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait, believes in improving the world by working diligently to serve the neediest African communities. Direct Aid has been recognized for its social services in Mauritania and Burkina Faso by both countries' Heads of State. The [...]
Direct Aid, represented by the State of Kuwait, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in Cairo, participated in a "conference on drought, food security and the ability to adapt to climate change in the State of Somalia" with the participation of representatives of [...]
Direct Aid works to improve education in Africa by establishing and running schools and providing students with books and curriculum materials. Currently, they have 318 schools serving kindergarten to secondary school students. In the first semester of 2022 alone, they distributed 344,060 textbooks to students. In addition, they provide school [...]
Within the programs of the strategic pillar for the development of the Direct Aid team, the Association held several training courses for field workers during the past four months (August - September - October - November) to enable the workers to perform their work efficiently and effectively on an ongoing [...]
The country of Senegal has recently witnessed torrential floods in many provinces, resulting in thousands of affected people and dozens of demolished homes, and many roads have stopped, in addition to the destruction of large areas of agricultural land that constitute the primary source of income for tens of thousands [...]
Chad in Africa is witnessing massive floods, including 18 out of 23 regions. The capital, N'Djamena, was the most affected, and more than 100,000 families were displaced throughout the country, including more than 16,500 families in the capital, N'Djamena, only. The government declared a state of emergency because of this [...]
In Direct Aid, we care about women's economic empowerment in African society, believing that women are half of the community, especially those who support low-income families, poor girls, mothers of orphans, widows, and divorced women. Sewing, embroidery, and other handicrafts that suit them to help them find a suitable income [...]
Globally, about 2.2 billion people have a visual impairment, of whom about 1 billion have not yet received treatment. The global need for eye treatment is expected to escalate dramatically in the coming decades (WHO, 2020). Africa has the world's most significant proportion of untreated near vision impairment at 80%, [...]
The Direct Aid Office in the State of Sierra Leone has graduated 200 preachers through the program of preparing village imams, providing them with Islamic sciences and developing their skills in dealing with social platforms and platforms in various villages. The Awareness Department aims to expand the experiences of preachers [...]
With the beginning of the new academic year 2022/2023, the number of students registered in Direct-Aid universities in Africa has reached more than 15,200 students, in the four universities owned and operated by Direct-Aid in East Africa in different 4 arias (Somalia - Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania). The total [...]
