Al-Hakim Foundation Non Profitable

1. Al-Hakim FoundationNon Profitable

2. Who are we ? Al-Hakim Foundation is the greatest of the NGO in Iraq. Founded in 2003, a member of UN ECOSOC with Consultative Status being a cultural, scientific, humanitarian.

3. Working fields An independent organization specialized inthe fields of direction, upbringing, education, culture, humanitarian services, social and health rehabilitation and women rights.

4. Where are We? Head-office of the Organization is Najaf – Iraq. It has more than 160 offices and branches inland in addition to international offices in several countries such as Geneva, New York and Beirut. The Secretary General of the Organization supervises a set of schools, institutes and colleges.

5. Objectives 1- Calling for moderation, religious forgiveness and peaceful coexistence between the divine religions and the religious, intellectual and national creeds. 2- Working on cultural and intellectual integration with the national, regional and international organizations.

6. Objectives 3- Defending the Islamic moderation, refuting strange suspicions and thoughts, protecting the Islamic ideology from the deforming factors and saving the distinguishable features and characteristics of the Islamic civilization. 4- Calling for respecting the concepts of democracy and circulating the cultural cognition to secure implementing them.

7. Objectives 5- Calling for the social justice and defending the human rights, woman rights in particular, protecting her and her dignity and improving her cultural and educational capabilities. 6-Working towards improving the capabilities of youth and juveniles as concerned with the cultural, intellectual, sport, art, literature and entertainment aspects.

8. Objectives 7- Fighting the ignorance and illiteracy. 8- Adopting the humanitarian relief projects connected with the family protection and orphans care and socially and culturally re-qualifying them.

9. Major Departments Public Relations Department Arts and Literature Department Woman Affaires Department Charity Department Media Department

10. Woman Affaires Department • Woman Affaire Dept. is a prime and basic department of the Al Hakim Foundation, • which is founded as a result of the comprehensive, scrutinizing view and the extreme adherence to diagnose the rights of Iraqi woman, • after multiple years of disregard with absolute isolation during the dictatorship time in Iraq which extended for around four decades.

11. Woman Affaires Department • Woman in Iraq had no real, noticeable existence with the policies of illiteracy and unidirectional ideology that controlled the true state of woman. • Therefore, this Department has appeared to put the final touches for new phase woman where woman can live in humanitarian, intellectual and cultural environment.

12. Woman Affaires Department • It derived its principles from the general principles of the Al Hakim Foundation which enabled her to affect the woman state in Iraq and expand and diffuse, believing in the woman's ability to undertake the leading roles in the family and society hand in hand with her man partner, and to play her role in industrializing culture and knowledge.

13. Woman Affaires Department The Woman Affaires Dept. of the Organization started in a single room, wherein three female volunteers. • it showed quick expansion with openness on all woman environments with their varying Iraqi ideologies in the civil and the rural surroundings, in the schools and the Universities all over Iraq. • The woman offices and branches increased little by little and they are more than 56 offices and branches. • As well as such overwhelming quantitative expansion, there also was a great qualitative one represented by the multiplication of the department's activities within all the cultural, intellectual, artistic, literary and poetry fields. The Department as well worked on establishing a number of woman workshops to teach the Iraqi woman several arts and handicrafts that assist woman to practice her hobbies and consolidate her innovations in addition to improve her economical and living situation.

14. Important activities statistics of the Woman Affaires Dept. between 2003 & 2008 • No. of the public cultural and intellectual courses: 90606. • No. of the cultural symposiums supporting the application of democracy: 400. • No. of IT courses: 87. • No. of dressmaking courses: 241 • No. of artistic courses (painting and sculpture): 56. • No. of handicrafts courses: 121. • No. of fitness courses: 75. • Overall No. of art and literature exhibitions and festivals: 700

15. Important activities statistics of the Woman Affaires Dept. between 2003 & 2008 • The overall No. of beneficiaries from such courses was 403742. • Many specialized teachers, whether or not affiliated in the Dept., delivered lecture in the said courses. • The Permanent Cadre of teachers was 11246 for 2008, whilst the Temporal Contracts Cadre of was 4130 for the same year.

16. In addition to the above, the Woman Affaires Dept. of the Al-Hakim Foundation works through committees specialized in developing its activities to realize the greatest benefit for the Iraqi woman in the promising future.