Category: Humanitarian and Relief Projects

Establishment of the Bahrain National Committee for Supporting the Palestinian People in Gaza

His Majesty the King ordered the formation of a National Committee for Supporting the Palestinian People in Gaza to operate under RHF’s supervision. In order to unify efforts and provide the necessary support for the Palestinian people in Gaza, and achieve this noble goal, the membership to join this Committee has been made open to all NGOs and institutions.

Opening the door of donation for the Bahraini people through Bahrain TV

Under the direction of HRH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, RHF’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of Bahrain National Committee for Supporting the Palestinian People in Gaza, the first campaign to collect donations for the benefit of our brothers in the occupied Gaza Strip was organized on January 9, 2009. Another campaign was also organized on January 16, 2009, in cooperation with Bahrain TV, which dedicated TV series and live broadcast to support that humanitarian campaign.

Sending relief shipments

Four urgent relief shipments of about 180 tons were sent to our Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip, including many medical and relief materials. Coordination was made between the Bahrain National Committee for Supporting the Palestinian People in Gaza, Bahrain Red Crescent and Palestinian Red Crescent to ensure that those shipments would directly reach the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Medical missions and aid to treat the wounded

Through Bahrain Medical Society and based on the human dimension of medical work, the Bahrain National Committee for Supporting the Palestinian People in Gaza sent medical and therapeutic missions to work side by side with their Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip to treat the wounded and injured through coordination with the competent authorities and Palestinian Red Crescent.

The Kingdom of Bahrain School in the Gaza Strip

On November 2, 2011, the Kingdom of Bahrain School was opened in Tal al-Hawa. Consisting of 4 floors and 52 classrooms, and serving more than 4,000 students, it is the largest school in the Gaza Strip. It is equipped with all educational and teaching facilities, including a library, sports fields, garden, and science and computer laboratories. It also includes a classroom for students with learning difficulties as well as learning aids for students with special needs.

Bahrain Specialist Hospital in Somalia:

Due to the dire need for a health facility to serve the people of Somalia, Bahrain Specialist Hospital was built on an area of 17,500 square meters to serve about 3 million people and no less than 22,000 cases per year. The hospital offers various treatment services to the brotherly people of Somalia.
It includes many medical specialties, such as a specialized ophthalmology and ENT centre. Being an integrated hospital, the hospital contains many facilities such as reception, waiting lounge, operation rooms, examination rooms, delivery rooms, emergency department, returning patient rooms, in addition to nurse rooms, lunch hall, pharmacy, 10 wards for women, 10 wards for men, doctor rooms, and management department.

Bahrain Scientific Complex

The Bahrain Scientific Complex, which includes Mogadishu National University, comprises the College of Human Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Sharia, Faculty of Political Sciences, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Agriculture, and Finance and Administrative Sciences Institute that delivers specialized training courses. The Complex also includes reception lounge, 8 education and training halls, lunch and kitchen lounge, a manager’s room, and trainers’ room. Moreover, the Complex contains a Financial Sciences Institute to train government employees, which is reflected on the development of the educational process and creation of a well-educated and enlightened generation of students.

Water Wells Project for Food Security

RHF dug 10 artesian wells, 300-metre deep each, across Somalia to serve more than 102,000 people. These wells will pump water to about 250 villages through a network of pipes. Many families have moved to settle down around those well sites. This is because Somali citizens use the water in their daily lives, water their livestock and irrigate their land.

Sight Restoration and Correction Surgeries

In cooperation with Islamic Relief Worldwide, RHF conducted sight restoration and correction operations for around 4,000 Somali citizens as part of the charitable contributions of the Kingdom of Bahrain for the relief of the people of Somalia.

Relief Shipments

Four shipments of more than 200 tons of relief, medicine and food supplies were sent to our brothers in Somalia during the wave of drought that hit the country. Moreover, a delegation comprising representatives of local charities and the Bahrain Red Crescent Society was sent.

Bahrain National Ophthalmology Centre

In recognition of the Kingdom’s leading role in supporting the Somali people, the Somali authorities announced that the National Ophthalmology Centre will be re-named “Bahrain National Ophthalmology Centre”.

In 2012, a devastating earthquake hit the Republic of Turkey and destroyed large parts of its land. As its habit in swiftly reacting to every disaster afflicting the Arab and Muslim countries, the Kingdom of Bahrain was one of the first countries that came to the aid of Turkey with:

Relief Shipments

In cooperation with the Bahrain Red Crescent Society, RCO sent to Turkey two relief shipments of 100 tons, containing many relief materials and quantities of tents and blankets that suit the cold weather of winter.

In August 2012, and in implementation of royal directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain, RHF was commissioned to provide humanitarian and relief assistance. RHF took a number of measures and exerted efforts to implement these royal directives. The following are some of the most important of these actions and projects:

Bahrain Scientific Complex at Zaatari Refugee Camp in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

The Bahrain Scientific Complex is the first educational project and one of the most important projects carried out for the Syrian brothers in Jordan, as it serves about 5,000 students. According to statistics in February 2015, the number of students enrolled in the Complex reached about 10,000 students. The Complex is characterized by the following:

It consists of 4 schools for the elementary and Intermediate stages in addition to a kindergarten fully equipped with educational and learning facilities. Each school accommodates more than 1,000 students, with a total of 5,000 students in all the Complex’s schools. With an initial area of 8,000 square meters, the Complex includes classrooms, science laboratories, sports courts, offices of the administrative and educational staff, and other important scientific facilities.

The Complex was established in cooperation with the Hashemite Charity Commission, Jordanian Ministry of Education, and the UNICEF Office in Jordan. The UNICEF Office in Jordan manages and runs the Complex under the supervision of the Jordanian Ministry of Education.

The Complex was a haven for the Syrian refugees at the Zaatari Refugee Camp during the snowstorm and rains that hit Jordan. It was used to accommodate a number of Syrian families whose tents were damaged during the rains. Those families were temporarily sheltered in the Complex’s schools before being transferred to other places after the storm, and studies were officially resumed at the Complex.

Bahrain Housing Complex at Zaatari Refugee Camp in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

The Complex consists of 500 housing cabins, each of which can accommodate a family of six members. With a ground area of 5,000 square meters, the Complex serves 3,000 people.

Bahrain Creativity Centre at Zaatari Refugee Camp in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Bahrain Creativity Centre was established to help students express their feelings, vent their emotions and alleviate pressures resulting from the difficult psychological conditions in which they live because of migration and instability. The Centre also aims to provide psychotherapy services to Bahrain Scientific Complex’s students affected by such hard situation. It seeks to help them overcome the psychological trauma caused by war, get rid of the horrifying images and ideas imprinted in the minds of children and adolescents, and guide their families on how to help them overcome such trauma under the extreme conditions in which they live, and avoid future psychological problems.

The Centre consists of 5 cabins: 3 cabins for individual psychological counselling, 1 for play-based counselling, and 1 for adolescent collective counselling. Moreover, it includes a playground for children. The Centre targets children from the age of 7 to 15 years. It works as per a student’s counselling program to detect the nature and type of problems from which students suffer. It has been noted that the majority of students suffer from trauma symptoms represented in painful memories, intrusive mental images, nightmares, grief over the loss of their relatives and friends, feelings of fear from going through the same traumatic situation again, night panic and anxiety. Therefore, Bahrain Creativity Centre applies the modern psychological counselling theories and trauma-handling strategies through the application of appropriate psychological tests to diagnose cases and appropriate treatment plans. This is done in cooperation with a number of psychologists at the Jordanian Ministry of Education.

Bahrain Housing Complex at Al-Azraq camp

The project aims to build shelters, improve infrastructure and services, and build medical clinics at Al-Azraq camp in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Complex consists of more than 1,000 residential cabins, accounting for 10% of the number of residential cabins at the camp. Each cabin can accommodate a family of six members. The Complex serves about 5,000 people.

The Kingdom of Bahrain School in Irbid

The project aims to support the efforts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and provide education opportunities for Syrian refugees outside camps in Jordan. The school is located in Shaikh Khalil district, in Irbid on a piece of land with a total area of 11,729 square meters. It accommodates about 1,600 students in each school shift (morning / evening), covering all primary, intermediate and secondary stages.

The school consists of two floors. The ground floor comprises the management department and associated rooms, nine classrooms, general science lab, preparation room, health units for students and administrative staff.

The first floor consists of nine classrooms, two science laboratories, a computer lab, and health units for students. The project is supervised by the Hashemite Charity Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Jordan.

Kingdom of Bahrain School in the Jordanian Capital (Abu Nasair district)

In implementation of royal directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain, to support syrian refugees and under the patronage of HRH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Chairman of the RHF’s Board of Trustees, a cooperation agreement was signed by RHF and Hashemite Charity Commission to construct and build the Kingdom of Bahrain school in the Jordanian capital. The agreement was signed by Dr. Mustafa AlSayed (RHF’s General Secretary) and by Mr. Ayman Reyadh AlMufleh (Hashemite Charity Commission’s General Secretary) in partnership with the Ministry of Education in Jordan which provided a piece of land for this project.

In February 2014, following the Typhoon Haiyan that hit the people of the Philippines, devastating several areas of the Philippines, the Kingdom of Bahrain took the initiative to provide humanitarian support and development assistance to contribute to the re-development of the country. Not only that, but the Kingdom of Bahrain provided urgent relief aid for the victims of the hurricane which consisted of the following:

RHF Opens Two Training Centers in Philippines

The Royal Humanitarian Foundation opened two vocational training centers in Tacloban and Subic in the Philippines. The centers serve more than 348,000 people. Each center has administrative offices, 4 classrooms and 4 training workshops for electricity, plumbing, construction and carpentry, and each center accommodates about 250 students. Training is provided at a high level of proficiency and professionalism at the centers that aim at graduating expert labors to meet the needs and requirements of the labor market in the Philippines, and that is based on the studies and recommendations of the TESDA Office of the President of the Philippines, which is concerned with the study and development of plans for the needs of the labor market in the country of professional specialties in all regions of the Philippines and other countries.

In 2015, the friendly Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal was hit by the worst earthquake in 80 years, causing the destruction of thousands of houses. RHF was among the first to provide humanitarian and relief materials to the people of Nepal. This was as follows:

Relief Shipments

Sending 2 Shipments that contain 100 Tons of relief materials, food, medicines, tents, blankets, and water purifiers, in addition to food supplies donated by the Bahraini people.

Bahraini youth Delegation

Under the leadership of Dr. Mustafa Al-Sayed, RHF’s Secretary-General, a delegation of Bahraini youth was dispatched to Nepal to contribute to the relief of the Nepalese people, along with 25-strong medical team including doctors and nurses specialised in humanitarian relief to assist the search and rescue teams in Nepal.

In 2014, and under the directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain, to support the Arab Republic of Egypt, Royal Humanitarian Foundation worked on the following Projects:

Building the Kingdom of Bahrain School

RHF built the Kingdom of Bahrain School in Al-Sharqiya Governorate, in Abu Kabir Centre, in Abu Qoura village. The school accommodates 600 students, with a two-shift system; the morning shift for the primary and intermediate stages and the evening shift for the literacy programs.
With the possibility of future expansions, the school consists of 15 classrooms, a library, a computer lab, a science lab, rooms for the administrative and educational staff, a sports for volleyball, football, handball and basketball, and a meeting hall. It features around the clock security.

Projects with the Egyptian House of Zakat and Charity

In November 2015 and under the directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, and under the auspices of the Personal Representative of His Majesty the King for Charity Work and Youth Affairs, Chairman of RHF’s Board of Trustees, HRH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, RHF’s Secretary-General Dr. Mustafa Al-Sayed launched the Kingdom’s projects in Egypt to be carried out by RCO in cooperation with the Egyptian House of Zakat and Charity. These projects include the building of two complexes and two health centres for Al Azhar Al Sharif.

Under the directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain, proceeding from the humanitarian ties between the different peoples of the world, and out of the keenness of His Majesty the King to ease the suffering of the Yemeni people under the difficult circumstances they are going through, RCO formed the National Committee for Relief of Brethren in Yemen in 2015 to help those affected by the war going on in several provinces. The Bahraini aid was as follows:

First Batch of Aid

Under the program aiming to restore hope to the Yemeni people, RCO dispatched the first shipment of humanitarian relief to Yemen. Containing 910 tons of medical supplies, food, water and tents, it is considered the largest relief shipment sent to the Yemeni people who are in dire need of it. The shipment’s timing and size reflect the keenness of His Majesty the King to alleviate the suffering of the people of Yemen during the holy month of Ramadan. The shipment was delivered to the UN Relief Agency and King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre at Djibouti seaport under the Hope Campaign for Yemeni brothers (Humanity without Borders) to be distributed as soon as possible to the largest number of people across Yemen.

Second Batch of Aid

To continue to support our brothers in Yemen and alleviate their suffering, a delegation from RCO delivered the second shipment of relief assistance to the Yemeni people on August 14, 2015. The shipment was delivered by Aden International Airport to contribute to the provision of basic needs of medical and relief materials in that important phase after the liberation of Aden and several provinces in Yemen. That shipment was one of the first shipments to arrive in Aden after its liberation, and it included medical materials commensurate with the humanitarian situation in Yemen.
Moreover, the delegation made a field visit to Aden to get a picture of the nature of damage to buildings, vital facilities and houses caused by the war.

Third Batch of Aid

To continue implementing the directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa to support our brothers in Yemen and to within the Kingdom of Bahrain participation in the ‘Return of Hope’ program to the Yemeni people, the Personal Representative of His Majesty the King for Charity Work and Youth Affairs, Chairman of RCO’s Board of Trustees, HRH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, delivered the third aid shipment to the Yemeni people on October 2015. It was delivered to the Arab Coalition leadership and it comprised of essential food and materials to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.