Barzani Charity Foundation
The Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) is a nonprofit providing humanitarian assistance to internally-displaced communities and refugees. It was founded in 2005 by Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdistan region. With an HQ in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, it has chapters in Europe and United States, and is also officially registered in Kuwait. Activities range from providing food, shelter, and health services to building schools, offering job training and skill development, enhancing sewage and sanitation systems and facilitating cash assistance and donations.
- Organisation type Nonprofit
- Year founded 2005
- Headquartered Erbil
- Registration Iraqi Kurdistan
- Website https://bcf.krd/
Related sustainable development goals
Focus areas
Focus sectors
Agriculture
- Irrigation and water management
Education
- Education services
- Vocational education
Health
- Out-patient care
- Health care clinics
- Medical support services
- Healthcare access
- Mental health care
Humanitarian
- Food aid
Legal and courts
- Disasters and emergency management
- Disaster relief
- Disaster preparedness
- Internal resettlement
- Abuse prevention
Focus populations
- Victims of conflict and war
- Victims of disaster
Focus geographies
Africa
- South Sudan
Europe
- Serbia
Middle East
- Syria
- Yemen
- Saudi Arabia
- Lebanon
South Asia
- Bangladesh
Grantees
- Educational Centre Edwina
- HumanBridge
- Iraqi Red Crescent Society
- Islamic Relief
- Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation
- Khalsa Aid
- MedGlobal
- Rwanga
- Samaritan's Purse
- Secours Islamique France
- UNHCR
- UNICEF
Programmes
Camp co-ordination and camp management
This programme focuses on management and co-ordination of the camps in the Kurdistan region of Iraq in collaboration with the UNHCR and the Joint Crisis Coordination.Cash assistance
Providing cash assistance for widowed mothers and orphans to cover basic necessities.Education and training
Strengthening the educational environment and educational services offered by providing training courses, building and renovating schools and training centres, covering school and education costs, and raising awareness on the importance of education.Food
This programme focuses on providing dry food and ready meals to people in vulnerable communities and works to promote food production through organising training courses and providing greenhouses for growing vegetables and fruit.Health
Offering medical assistance to vulnerable communities by building and renovating health centres, providing medical supplies, building mobile clinics, and providing wheelchairs to individuals with special needs.Livelihoods
This programme supports activities promoting human development and economic empowerment including job training, technology training and food production.Non-food items
This programme works to provide daily basic necessities, such as kitchen supplies, blankets, winter supplies, and mattress to those in need.Protection
This programme focuses on enhancing the psychological safety and support services for victims of abuse and violence, particularly women and children, through training and awareness raising sessions.Shelter
Building and providing safe spaces and shelters for internally displaced people and refugees in war-affected areas.WASH (Water and Sanitation)
Focusing on enhancing access to clean water and sanitation, improving sewage infrastructure, distributing hygiene supplies, raising sanitation awareness, and organising hygiene campaigns.
Financials
Funding model
- Foundation-administered programme awards
- Grants to organisations
- In-kind gifts
- Pro bono services
- Programme related investment
- Volunteering
Primary funders
- Act Now Children's Fund
- Burpee
- Catholic Parish
- Emirates Red Crescent
- GIZ
- International Islamic Charity Organization
- Microsoft
- One World Medical Mission
- Operation Blessing
- Stiftung Entwicklung Zusammenarbeit
- Texas Sweetwater
- Trinity Baptist Church
Operations
Key staff
- Ibrahim Samin, Vice president
- Musa Ahmed, President
Board members
- Abdulwahid Amin, Member
- Awat Ahmed, Member
- Ismail Abdulaziz, Member
- Karzan Nuri, Member
- Masrour Barzani, Head of Board
- Rawaj Haji, Member
- Ways Jalil, Member
Contact details
- + 964 751 501 9400
- info@bcf.krd
- https://bcf.krd/
- Kurdistan Region-Iraq, Erbil, Hawleri nwe Qtr, 120M Road