The General Union of Charitable Societies focuses its work on supporting humanitarian cases and the charitable sector
The General Union of Charitable Societies has achieved a qualitative leap in advancing the reality of charitable and humanitarian work until it has become a role model as a national institution that works and achieves to serve the public interest.
The year 2023 was full of distinction, giving and achievement in the Union’s journey through the implementation of projects, initiatives and purposeful activities that contribute to serving the community and strengthening its relief efforts to provide support and assistance to those in need locally and abroad.
The President of the General Union of Charitable Societies, Dr. Atef Adibat, said that the General Union is working in harmony with the royal directives to consolidate the participatory approach with various institutions, organizations and entities to enhance development by employing its capabilities and continuing its efforts to improve the services it provides to the target groups and segments, indicating that the General Union has provided great and pioneering humanitarian services, where His development projects contributed to providing job opportunities to alleviate poverty and unemployment. These humanitarian works also had a positive impact on the importance of respecting the citizen and preserving his dignity.
Al-Odaibat pointed out that the General Union is keen to strengthen the role of associations to bring about development, involve them in the activities and events organized by the unions, and direct them to present studies and projects to enhance their work mechanisms in a way that reflects positively on the local community, noting that the Al-Amal Centers for Special Education have been handed over to be managed by charitable associations, and many projects have also been implemented. In various development sectors, such as credit funds, productive projects, women’s and youth empowerment, social protection, charitable sharks, wheelchairs, Ramadan campaigns, supportive medical tools, providing aid to refugees, reproductive health, and parental care.
He stated that during the past year, the Union provided support to five associations after they submitted project proposals whose goals were based on empowering women and enhancing their capabilities in a way that would benefit them and their families. Also, an economic empowerment project for vulnerable groups was implemented at the Al Amal Center for Special Education in Mafraq, with the aim of economic empowerment for women. Young people of both sexes and people with disabilities.
He added that the charitable lottery witnessed a development represented by the issuance of a new system that enables the General Union to issue other types of lotteries, especially electronic scratch-offs, with the aim of increasing and improving the revenues of the Union in light of the increases in the number of registered charitable societies, reducing poverty and unemployment, and improving the quality of life for individuals and communities.
He pointed out that the Union, believing in the importance of the role of the media, launched its official website to highlight the message and objectives of the Union and the unions in the governorates and the projects that it has implemented and is implementing, and to facilitate communication mechanisms and keep the community and associations informed of announcements and news up to date.
He stated that the Union, in line with the royal directives, provided an amount of 20,000 dinars to support family and siblings in the Gaza Strip, indicating that the Union, with the efforts of its administrative body, will continue its path to achieve excellence and achievement, provide great and pioneering services, and continue its mission aimed at providing aid and assistance to the poor and needy segments and groups throughout the country’s expanses. .
Social responsibility programs:
Social responsibility programs have placed the General Union on the map of social work in the Kingdom and created a position for it as a result of the quality of aid, programs and productive projects that are no less important than providing aid to the needy and the poor, in addition to the Union’s participation in national plans for the various sectors and supporting initiatives that have contributed to achieving development.
The Union also joined to provide support and assistance to the campaign implemented by the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization in many crises, which had a great impact in supporting and assisting families and brothers in the Gaza Strip and Palestine and alleviating their suffering and their need for basic, food and medical supplies.
The field of volunteer work and support of unions, associations and projects:
The Union was able to make its mark through its keenness to support federations of associations in the governorates and association projects in order to carry out their mission and contribute to rehabilitation, training and employment, and achieve sustainable development, which reflects positively on the local community, as support was distributed to the federations on a fair basis and for specific projects that have direct contact. For the needs of the local community and the daily lives of citizens.
The Union also provided support to five charitable organizations at a rate of five thousand for each organization, which is the Nashmiyat Jordan Charitable Association, which was headed by former MP Dr. Rudeina Al-Ati to implement the economic empowerment project for women “For you, we work in Zarqa Governorate,” and the Basmat Al-Khair Women’s Charitable Association, which was headed by Buthaina Al-Zoubi to implement The “Together We Can” project for self-employment of women in the city of Salt, the Developmental Families Association, headed by Maysar Al-Saadi, to implement the project for training and qualifying women in hotel professions, the “Izdihar Project,” the Jordanian Women’s Charitable Training and Qualification Association, headed by Munifa Al-Jazi, to implement the economic empowerment project for women in the southern desert, and the Nashmiya Association for Women’s Development. and Children’s Charity to implement the economic empowerment project for women in Jerash Governorate.
The General Union also implemented the economic empowerment project for vulnerable groups in Mafraq in cooperation with the French Expertise Organization and with the support of the European Union and managed by the Jordanian Society for Trauma Care, which contributed to benefiting a number of young individuals, girls and less fortunate families by qualifying them with a number of comprehensive experiences and skills for some professions to enable them to establish their projects. Small projects that empower them economically and supply the labor market with these competencies. In addition, the project contributed to comprehensive maintenance of the Al Amal Center for Special Education in Mafraq Governorate.
A new national project has also been launched that will have tangible effects on alleviating poverty in our Jordanian society, which is the National Fund for Charitable Work, so that it contributes