About us
What the foundation does
The foundation has set up many humanitarian programmes with a strong impact. They promote education and protect girls from child marriage and domestic violence. We do this through the media, community outreach and awareness programmes.
Since 2017, the foundation has managed to annul hundreds of illegal child marriages and to rescue children from domestic violence. It has also awarded more than 60 scholarships that help girls develop and build a good future through work.
Nada Foundation also runs a shelter for girls who flee marriage or domestic abuse. It hopes to extend its work across borders, so that girls everywhere can have a childhood and thrive.
The foundation runs an awareness programme that challenges the benefits people wrongly see in early marriage. It answers concerns about traditional values and questions about the rights of the child, which Yemen is bound to respect under international law. It also sets out clearly the harm this practice does to society and to each person.
Nada Foundation transformed the way this subject is shared in Yemen. It turned a conversation usually kept among those in power into a public debate, by making videos that are easy to share on social media. As the videos won support and were shown on television, at conferences and at humanitarian events around the world, the secrecy and complacency around child marriage began to fade.
Why was it founded?
Nada carried out many projects on her own initiative to help children in Yemen. She also helped to found several initiatives for children there. Her work achieved great success: helping sick children, saving many girls from early marriage, bringing children back to school, and providing shelter for orphaned and homeless children.
How was it founded?
Help was sought to found Nada Foundation, and approval was ordered because of its record of helping children and the success of its efforts in Yemen. The Minister of Social Affairs and Labour ordered the official papers for the foundation's office in Taiz. All legal procedures were then completed, and a team of experienced people was formed. After the required documents were submitted under Yemen's law on NGOs, the licence for the office in Taiz was finally issued.
Vision and mission
Our vision
A safe childhood, a promising future.
Nada Foundation for Save the Children
A human rights foundation, founded to protect and defend children's rights and to guarantee education and a good, peaceful life for every child.
Our mission
We work to provide shelters, schools and ways to reduce the risks that threaten childhood.
Our website
nadafound.org is the only official website of Nada Foundation. Everything we publish about our work, our programmes and our founder is here.
Our former web address, nadafund.org, is no longer under the foundation's control. Content shown there does not come from us and does not speak for the foundation.