Fatma al-Zahraa Women's Organization for Sustainable Development

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Everyone
Main field: Social, economic, and political empowerment
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2012
Economic, social, and agricultural local community development through consumer protection and maintaining constitutional and political rights.


Main Activity:

Awareness seminars, workshops, and legal support

Ongoing projects

  • Safe, Non-violent Villages Project 
  • A project that aims to put an end to harmful practices against young girls and women

Past projects

  • Politically empowering women  
  • "Toward a Better Life" Initiative, which dealt with early divorce
  • Workshops and training courses on sewing, mobile phone maintenance, and electrical wiring systems, in collaboration with the Dandara Cultural Center

Future projects

Small businesses for female breadwinners through microcredit programs