Tkiyet Um Ali ( ar, تكية أم علي), is a

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

ian non-governmental organisation founded by Princess Haya in honour of her late mother

Queen Alia Alia Al-Hussein ( ar, علياء الحسين, born Alia Bahauddin Toukan (); 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977) was the Queen of Jordan and the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage in 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in so ...

. The first initiative of its kind in Jordan and in the Arab World, Tkiyet Um Ali provides food and services to the less privileged sectors of Jordanian society, the needy and the hungry.

History

Tkiyet Um Ali (TUA) was founded in 2003 by Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein to represent the first initiative of its kind in the Arab World that seeks to eradicate hunger. TUA is also considered the first non-governmental organisation to provide

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support through distributing food parcels and serving hot meals in addition to providing humanitarian food aid to Jordan's underprivileged. Originally conceptualised by Her Late Majesty Queen Alia more than 40 years ago.

Programmes

Tkiyet Um Ali seeks to serve as a model for hunger and relief initiatives across the rest of the Arab world. It is considered to be the first NGO in Jordan to serve hot meals and provide humanitarian aid on daily basis to the poor and needy from the Jordanian society in all locations. Currently Tkiyet Um Ali is reaching out to 30,000 households living in extreme poverty throughout the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The households receive food parcel on monthly basis and throughout the year, the parcel includes 24 commodities enough to prepare three meals on daily basis throughout the month.

References

External links

Official website of the Tkiyet Um Ali (Arabic/English)

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