ABOUT US
Al-Rahma Foundation for Human Development is a non-profit organization founded on December 30, 2003. It was the first initiative in the Republic of Yemen dedicated to the care of orphaned girls, operating under the authorization of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. The foundation was awarded the ISO 9001:2008 certification on May 19, 2010, and later earned another certification, ISO 9001:2025, on March 27, 2020. Furthermore, on March 12, 2025, the foundation obtained the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certification, reaffirming its commitment to excellence. Striving to broaden its reach, the foundation expanded into other governorates, opening a branch in Taiz on March 4, 2008, a second in Ibb (Al-Subul) on August 8, 2011, and a third in Ibb (Al-Suhul) on April 15, 2014.
Our Vision
Leadership in human development and orphan care.
Our Mission
Al-Rahma Foundation for Human Development is committed to advancing human development by delivering outstanding services to vulnerable social groups in Yemen. This includes providing comprehensive care for orphan boys and girls through specialized orphanges. Furthermore, the foundation provides programs in education, healthcare, training, and rehabilitation, along with other essential services. The foundation actively fosters societal awareness, inspiring collective responsibility for orphans. This is accomplished through various direct and indirect programs, seminars and engagements.
Our Values
The foundation upholds essential values, including:
- Compassion and Humanity
- Patience and Tolerance
- Teamwork
- Volunteering and Selflessness
- Honesty and Integrity
- Strong Sense of Responsibility
Before the mother could fully recover, she cast a sorrowful glance at her newborn and bid her a silent farewell. With a heavy heart, she turned away, leaving her baby’s cries to echo through the sterile walls of the hospital.
The child, later named Mariam, cried for days on end, abandoned before she could even understand the world around her. A compassionate nurse, moved by the infant’s plight, could not bear to leave her defenseless. She took Mariam in as her own, raising her with love and care.
For ten years, Mariam believed she belonged—until the nurse, battling cancer, lay on her deathbed and revealed the painful truth: she was not Mariam’s biological mother. In that moment, Mariam’s fragile sense of identity crumbled. She was a child with no roots, no past to call her own.
Out of pity, a neighbor took her into his home, welcoming her among his daughters. But his wife saw Mariam as an unwelcome burden. Resentment festered until, one day, in a fit of rage, she delivered a cruel ultimatum: "It’s either me or that illegitimate child!"
Mariam froze. The words sliced through her like a blade. She had been unwanted before she could even walk, and now, she was unwanted still. That night, she wept until her small body ached, until her sobs gave way to silence.
At dawn, with nowhere left to turn, she wandered the streets. A group of girls traveling to Sana’a in search of work found her and offered to take her along. Hope flickered within her. Maybe, this time, she would belong.
But hope is a fragile thing. When they reached the city, the girls left her behind at the transport station, disappearing into their new lives as if she had never existed.
Alone in a city of strangers, Mariam wandered aimlessly, exhaustion pulling at her small frame. She drifted from alley to alley until sheer weakness overcame her. Collapsing at a doorstep, she slipped into a diabetic coma. The night wind carried dust onto her fragile face as she lay motionless, the world indifferent to her suffering. A child so young, consumed by a diabetic coma, was now at the mercy of the streets.
A good Samaritan found her and took her to a hospital, where she remained for days, lost in the haze of illness and despair. With nowhere to go, her stay was prolonged, and in time, she befriended another patient. For the first time in a long while, warmth touched her life.
"I’ll ask my mother if you can live with us," the girl promised.
Mariam clung to those words. A home. A family. A place where she would finally be wanted But when her friend’s mother learned of Mariam’s past, her reply was cold and final: "I will never allow an illegitimate child into my home."
The words shattered Mariam. A crime she had never committed—one she could never even understand—was stamped upon her like a curse, barring her from love, from belonging, from simply being.
Tears streamed down her face as rage and sorrow consumed her. She ran down the hospital corridors, hurling herself against the walls, as if trying to break free from the pain that imprisoned her. A security officer, moved by pity, took her to a charitable organization, where her tragic story was shared in a magazine. Many offered to take her in, but only the most capable was chosen to be her guardian. She was placed with a foster family, a new chance at life.
But years of rejection had shaped her. She had never known the structure of a stable home, the rules of respect, the warmth of discipline. She fought against everything—against order, against expectations, against love itself. Even her own survival became a battle of defiance. She ignored her diabetes and indulged in sweets.
She ate one last piece of candy. A deadly surge of sugar coursed through her body, her ears began to bleed, and her eyes widened in a haunting, unblinking stare.
By the time the doctors planned to release her from intensive care, Mariam had already made her choice. She would not delay the inevitable.
Mariam left this world, her departure silent yet profound.
In her final journey, Mariam moved through the crowd as if in a final procession, clutching two invisible certificates. One told the story of an innocence stolen. The other—the cruel legacy of a world that had failed her, a world corrupted by greed, pride, and cruelty
The foundation strives to achieve the following goals:
- Providing comprehensive care for orphan girls and boys.
- Ensuring a safe and secure childhood for all.
- Embracing and nurturing the target groups, preparing them to become engaged and contributing members of society.
- Providing distinguished educational and developmental levels tailored to each target group’s needs.
- Providing the necessary infrastructure to deliver comprehensive care services to the target groups.
- Enhancing the foundation's resources.
- Educating the community about their roles and responsibilities toward the target groups.
- Equipping the target groups with personal, life, and professional skills, while also fostering awareness to prepare them for active roles in society.
- Contributing to reducing social deviance and unemployment rates, along with their negative effects on society.
To achieve these goals, the foundation works toward the following:
- Establishing orphanges and training, rehabilitation, and educational programs for orphan boys and girls, in a manner that aligns with the foundation's conditions and in accordance with applicable laws.
- Establishing educational, technical, and healthcare facilities based on available resources, with coordination and cooperation from relevant entities, while adhering to applicable laws.
- Implementing investment projects that the foundation is developing.
- Enhancing the skills and abilities of the foundation's staff.
- Coordinating with individuals, organizations, and both public and private sectors to contribute to social and humanitarian efforts.
- Establishing collaborative relationships between the foundation and similar local and global bodies and institutions, in accordance with legal regulations.
Implementing awareness programs, conducting seminars and training courses, and showcasing the foundation's initiatives and objectives to motivate individuals, institutions, businesses, and both public and private sectors to play an active role
in humanitarian services and collaborate in achieving the foundation's mission.
• Al-Rahma Foundation for Human Development delivers a comprehensive range of humanitarian and child welfare services, including:
- Al-Rahma (Mercy) Orphanage for the Care of Orphan Girls
- Hind Orphanage for the Care of Orphan Girls
- Al-Fursan (Knights) Orphanage for the Care of Orphan Boys
- Sinan Abu Luhum Orphanage for the Care of Orphan Girls
- Al-Wafa Orphanage for the Care of Orphan Girls – Taiz Branch
- Al-Wafa Orphanage for the Care of Orphan Girls – Ibb Branch
- Al-Wafa Orphanage for the Care of Orphan Girls– Al-Suhul Branch
- Al-Riyadah Center for Training and Aptitude Building (Sana'a Branch)
- Al-Riyadah Center for Training and Aptitude Building (Haifan Branch)
• The foundation aspires to provide comprehensive services in the field of safe childhood care.
• Receiving and caring for urgent humanitarian cases.
• The foundation emphasizes the importance of mobilizing community roles, including cooperation with official and private entities, organizations, and researchers in humanitarian and social fields to contribute to appropriate awareness efforts and activate different roles, each within its scope, to advance humanitarian work in general and safe childhood care in particular.
• The foundation seeks to contribute meaningfully to scientific research on social issues affecting children, with a particular focus on orphans.
The foundation is committed to human development and its issues in general, with special attention given to orphaned children from various Yemeni governorates who have lost the security of a home and the warmth of a family. It provides them with safe shelter, fulfilling their primary needs, including food, clothing, educational and health care, and enrolling them in model schools while also offering training programs to help them become self-reliant and reintegrate into society. In pursuit of this goal, the foundation's orphanges and branches offer the following services:
- Intake and assessment of cases
- Comprehensive accommodation and shelter
- Foster care and educational care
- Training and rehabilitation care
- Health and psychological care
- Disbursement of monthly financial allowances
