Arab Women Alliance Association

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: women and youth
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: rural
Year founded: 2000
Brief Description: The Arab Women Alliance Association empowers and raises awareness of women's issues and supports women culturally, economically, and in terms of health care. Through supporting women's economic and political role and changing societal attitudes, the alliance aims to ensure equality between men and women in order to foster social development.

Main Activity:

Micro-credit programs for small and medium-sized projects

Ongoing projects

  • Micro-credit programs
  • Supporting female leadership
  • Technical support units

Past projects

  • Monitoring female representation in magazines, radio, and newspapers 
  • Preparing girls for the workforce
  • Women's Health Matters Project
  • Socially integrating blind individuals 
  • Toward Proactive Local Administrative Councils Project
  • Anti-Violence against Women Project 
  • Social Participation of Youth Project
  • Technical Support Unit for Women 
  • Knowledge is Power Initiative 
  • Securing a Dignified Life for the Poor Project
  • Mobile craft center 
  • Mainstreaming Gender Project
  • The Right to See Project
  • Supporting Community Education Project 
  • Employing women in mother healthcare initiatives 
  • Micro-credit programs

Future projects

Providing clean water and sanitation access and raising living standards as well as easing the process of buying durable goods through simple loans given to targeted sectors especially female breadwinners