Every figure in our statistics stands for a real person. Here are some of those stories — beneficiaries and volunteers who made a difference in their community.
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Share your story with the association's programs — it may be what inspires someone else.
Share your storyWe publish a story only after recording it with the person it belongs to, and with their written consent to publish their name and photograph.
That is why there may be stretches with no new stories. We would rather publish nothing than publish what we have not verified, or attach a photograph that is not of the beneficiary the story is about. And a beneficiary has every right to say no, without it affecting their place in any programme.
Some of what we do does not bear publishing at all: help for those about to marry, air-conditioning repairs for families in hardship, and the Giving Kitchen. These touch a family's privacy, and we protect the beneficiary before we ask them for a story. The absence of stories here is a deliberate choice, not a gap in our records.
That it contains a change you can verify: a job seeker who started work after a training course, a woman whose craft became a business that employs others, a volunteer who arrived as a participant and now leads a team. We are not looking for a moving story — we are looking for an effect that actually happened, and then we tell how it happened.
If you have benefited from one of our programs, or volunteered with us, and would like to tell your story, Contact Us — we will record it with you, and publish it on your permission alone.
Every story here belongs to a real beneficiary or volunteer from Mahd Governorate, published in their name and with their permission. We try to tell the whole story: where they started, what the association provided, and where they arrived — not a fragment taken out of context.
The stories come out of our licensed programs: training and qualification, support for productive families, home renovation, and care for the elderly. If you have been served by one of them and would like to share your story, get in touch.
Families whose situation changed after their home was renovated or their home enterprise supported.
Volunteers who began with a few hours and went on to lead teams in the association's programs.
Graduates of the training courses who found work after qualifying.
Behind every story above is a whole programme serving dozens more. This is what each of our tracks means, and for whom — and the figures are calculated live from the association's records, not estimated.
The training track lasts longest, because it does not end when the support does. A job seeker who completes a course carries the skill with them, and a woman who masters a trade that earns an income does not return to where she started. That is why we judge this track by what happens after the course, not by how many attended it.
In the home renovation programme the effect is tangible — it can be seen and photographed: a roof repaired, a bathroom built, wiring replaced. The beneficiaries are defined groups: those on low incomes, social security beneficiaries, widows and divorced women, and no one else.
The water supply project targets a thousand people in the governorate's villages and remote areas. Its effect shows immediately and the need for it never stops — water is not seasonal aid.
Some of our programs are not ones whose stories can be told publicly: support for couples about to marry, air-conditioning repair for families in need, and the Giving Kitchen. We protect a beneficiary's privacy before we ask them for a story — a deliberate choice, not a gap in our record-keeping.