Direct Aid started in 1981 by Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Sumait "from Kuwait" as a voluntarily non-governmental institution interesting in the development in Africa & after world wide.
Direct Aid Internationally:
- Recognized for excellence 3 Star – 2021 from European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM).
- Sponsorship of more than 16,640 students with scholarships.
- Sponsorship of more than 83,245 orphans.
- Enrolled students in universities and colleges are more than 47,984 students.
- Establishing, running and managing 6 hospitals.
- Building and running 326 clinics.
- Building and running 314 regular schools from kindergarten to high schools.
- Building more than 5,992 mosques in various African countries.
- Drilling more than 24,945 surface and artesian wells to provide fresh water to people in poor and remote areas in Africa and Yemen.
- Establishing 4 radio stations in Africa and operating 2496 radio programs in 19 countries.
- Establishing and running 79 women vocational training and rehabilitation centers.
- Establishing and running 4 universities with comprehensive academic disciplines.
- Building and running 25 Islamic institutes.
- Executing more than 7,768 health programs (surgical camp, eyes camp, vaccination campaign, circumcision, medical convoy).
- Conducting more than 16,495 development projects for the benefit of poor families.
- Forming several air bridges for relief to transport urgent aids to drought and famine areas in various African countries, and sending 700,000 tons of aids, medicine, food and clothing.
- DAO consists of 7,745 employees, including 170 employees in Kuwait and the rest are based in African countries and Yemen.
Where we work:
Tunisia/South Africa/Mozambique/Ghana/Ethiopia/Kenya/Tanzania & Zanzibar/Madagascar/Zimbabwe/Zambia/Sudan
/Somalia/Chad/Niger/Mauritania/Burkina Faso/Comoros/Mali/Malawi/Uganda/Benin/Central African Republic/Gambia/Togo/Guinea Bissau/Rwanda/Guinea/Sierra Leone/Senegal/Yemen.