MA’AKUM Developmental Foundation is a local non-profit organization working to empower conflict-affected communities and enhance their resilience through sustainable humanitarian and development interventions. The Foundation is committed to the core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.
The Foundation operates across six key sectors:
Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL): Distribution of food assistance; implementation of cash-for-food and cash-for-work activities; seasonal interventions; and support to smallholder farmers, micro and small enterprises, vocational training, and economic empowerment initiatives.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): Implementation of water projects, well drilling, provision of safe drinking water, and emergency WASH responses related to cholera outbreaks, floods, and flash floods.
Education: Provision of incentives for teachers, construction and rehabilitation of educational facilities, back-to-school campaigns, and scholarship programs.
Protection: Cash assistance, psychosocial support, capacity-building activities, and referral services.
Health and Nutrition: Medical outreach campaigns, support and operation of health facilities, rehabilitation of hospitals, and provision of medical supplies and equipment.
Shelter: Cash assistance for internally displaced persons (IDPs), winterization support, and improvement of camp services, including lighting projects.
MA’AKUM Developmental Foundation is supported by a qualified and well-trained workforce with strong field and administrative experience. Owing to these capacities, the Foundation has obtained several accreditations at both national and hub levels, in addition to donor accreditations, in recognition of its operational efficiency and the quality of its interventions.
Basic Information
City
Taiz
Type of organization
Developmental
Year Established
2017
Areas of Work
Developmental Humanitarian
Work Sector
Developmental
- Education and Vocational Training
- Sustainable Agriculture and Long-Term Food Security
- Natural Resources and Water Management
Humanitarian
- WASH
- IDPs Response including Shelter & NFIs
- Protection