Humanitarian assistance
Practical help for individuals and families facing hardship.
Humanitarian Care & Support
Standing with people when circumstances turn against them.
Practical support, relief, care and essential assistance for vulnerable individuals and families.
Introduction
Help that arrives without conditions
The Foundation is committed to providing care, support, relief and assistance to vulnerable individuals and families — practical help at the point where it is genuinely needed.
Hardship is rarely a single event. It arrives as a sequence: an illness, then lost income, then a child out of school. Intervening early keeps a difficult period from becoming a permanent decline.
The Need
Why humanitarian care matters
Families under severe strain are often forced into decisions that cost them far more in the long term than the immediate crisis did. Essential support at the right moment prevents those decisions from having to be made at all.
How that support is given matters as much as whether it is given. Assistance that leaves a person feeling diminished has solved one problem and created another. The Foundation treats the dignity of the people it serves as a condition of the work, not a courtesy attached to it.
Assistance that leaves a person feeling diminished has solved one problem and created another.
Al Sa’eed Humanitarian FoundationOur Contribution
What the Foundation seeks to contribute
These are the outcomes this area of work is designed to move towards.
Care
Attention to the person, not only to the problem in front of them.
Essential support
The basic provisions that hold a household together through a difficult period.
Dignity
Support given in a way that leaves a person’s self-respect intact.
Inclusion
Assistance directed by need, regardless of background or circumstances.
Restored hope
Enough stability for a family to plan again, rather than only cope.
Our Approach
How we approach this work
Four commitments that shape how this work is carried out.
Values guiding this work
- Compassion
- Respect and Dignity
- Equality and Inclusion
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Need decides
Support is directed by circumstance, not by connection, background or recommendation.
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Respect is not optional
The manner in which help is offered is treated as part of the help itself.
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Look past the immediate
Wherever possible, essential assistance is paired with something that reduces the chance of the same crisis recurring.
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Strengthen the community around the household
Families recover more reliably where the community around them is also supported.
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Our other focus areas
Education & Learning
Free qualitative education and access to learning opportunities for disadvantaged and underserved people.
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Healthcare support, health awareness and the encouragement of positive lifestyles, particularly among youths and vulnerable members of society.
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Skills development, knowledge and capacity-building initiatives designed to improve productivity and promote self-reliance.
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If this is the work you would like to strengthen, we would welcome a conversation about how you can take part.