Al Ghina
Al Ghina was established in 2001 in Beirut to provide support to orphans, widows, and other vulnerable communities. Under the broad headline of family sponsorships, they intervene through financial, medical, educational, developmental, social, in-kind aid, and rehabilitation.
- Organisation type NGO
- Year founded 2001
- Headquartered Beirut
- Registration Lebanon
- Website http://www.alghina.org
Related sustainable development goals
Focus areas
Focus sectors
Development
- Business and industry
- Entrepreneurship
- Economic development
- Community improvement
- Housing development
- Housing rehabilitation
- Employment
- Job creation and workforce developement
- Financial services
- Development finance
- Microfinance
Education
- Vocational education
- Adult education
Humanitarian
- Emergency relief
- Free goods distribution
- Special population support
- Food aid
Focus populations
- Low-income people
- Older adults
- Orphans
- Refugees and displaced people
- Self-employed people
- Widows and widowers
- Women and girls
- Working poor
Focus geographies
Middle East
- Lebanon
Programmes
Akkar Relief Fund
A fundraising campaign to support people affected by the fuel tank explosion in the Akkar region of northern Lebanon in August 2021.
Annual winter campaign
The distribution of blankets, quilts, fuel, heating fans, and thermal floor mats to help prepare vulnerable families for winter.
I give...
A crowdfunding initiative encouraging people to make donations in memory of a loved one. Funds collected are used to provide hot meals to orphans, children, widows, elderly people, and other vulnerable groups in impoverished neighbourhoods in Lebanon.
Lebanon relief
Providing hot meals, food parcels, medicines, diapers, milk, clothes, and other necessities to vulnerable groups, such as orphans, widows, and impoverished families.
Renovation
Repairing the homes of vulnerable families to make them more liveable. Al Ghina received funding from Impact Lebanon to restore buildings after the Beirut blast in 2020.
Seniors sponsorship
A monthly payment to vulnerable elderly people to cover basic needs, including food, clothing, medicines, and equipment such as wheelchairs.
SMEs programme
Supporting families with skills assessments and providing them with tools, locations, and inputs to start new businesses.
The orphans and widows housing
A future plan to host women and children in a unique new campus featuring schools, training centres, medical facilities, retail, and small business units.
Women's empowerment
Providing greater opportunities for vulnerable women through providing financial and in-kind assistance and education so they can improve living conditions for themselves and their families.
Financials
Funding model
- Grants to Individuals
- Grants to organisations
- In-kind gifts
Primary funders
- Alnajat Charity
- Impact Lebanon
Funding source
- Fundraising
Operations
Key staff
- Lina Aboul Laban, president
Contact details
- 00 961 7069 7171
- info@alghina.org
- http://www.alghina.org
- Chahla Al Khatib & Sami Abu Al Saad Building, Beirut, Lebanon