Kalimat Foundation

Programmes

• Ara Initiative

  Through this programme, the foundation identifies communities of blind and visually impaired children, and supports the delivery and availability of books in accessible formats. Ara has supported the production of 30,000 accessible books to be distributed, locally, regionally and internationally. The initiative also works to raise public awareness on visually disabled children in communities across the Middle East, North and East Africa, to support integration. Kalimat Foundation dedicates considerable resources for the development of baselines, benchmarks and case studies to aid policymaking, in the local, regional and international context.
• Pledge a Library

  This initiative delivers book collections, in the format of compact libraries each containing 100 Arabic language books, to young children and youth separated from their homelands. The idea is to sustain connection and cultural roots, support literacy, and ease young people's integration into new settings and societies. Pledge a Library has donated to refugee camps, community centres, schools and universities, institutes, public libraries, hospitals and NGOs across various countries including Jordan, Lebanon, France, Tunisia, Kenya Greece, Hong Kong, and more.