Tarahum

Founded in 2012, the Tarahum Charity Foundation is dedicated to supporting vulnerable communities in the UAE, including low-income families, orphans, widows, and people with disabilities. It provides financial aid, food and medical support, housing assistance. It also runs the “Preservation of Grace” initiative to redistribute surplus food, as well as an orphan sponsorship project.

  • Organisation type NGO
  • Year founded 2012
  • Headquartered Dubai
  • Registration United Arab Emirates
  • Website https://tarahum.ae/

Related sustainable development goals

  • No Poverty
  • Zero Hunger
  • Good Health and Well-Being
  • Reduced Inequalities

Impact

16,483 beneficiaries

19,130 assistances

9,155 in-kind donations

140 beneficiary families 

Focus areas

Focus sectors

  • Development
    • Economic development
      • Financial services
        • Home financing
  • Health
    • Healthcare access
  • Humanitarian
    • Free goods distribution
    • Food aid
    • Food banks
  • Legal and courts
    • Corrections and penology
      • Services for offenders

Focus populations

  • Low-income people
  • Offenders
  • Orphans
  • Single parents
  • Widows and widowers

Focus geographies

  • Middle East
    • United Arab Emirates

Partners

  • Al Jalila Foundation
  • Dubai Health Authority
  • Dubai Land Department
  • Dubai Police
  • Dubai Private Care Center
  • Emirates Association for Congenital Heart Diseases
  • Emirates Islamic
  • Foundation for Endowments and Minors Affairs
  • Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Printing the Holy Quran
  • Mohammed bin Rashid Housing Establishment
  • Tadawi Healthcare Group

Financials

Funding model

  • In-kind gifts
  • Volunteering

Primary funders

  • Dubai Islamic Bank
  • Dubai Islamic Humanitarian Foundation

Funding source

  • Corporate
  • Fundraising

Operations

Key staff

  • Dr. Ahmed Thlak, General director

Board members

  • Abdul Rahman Nasser Anwahi
  • Abdullah Adel Falaknaz
  • Abdullah Habib Al-Mulla
  • Abdullah Ishaq Abdullah
  • Adnan Muhammad Khoury
  • Khalid Abdullah Al-Qassim, Chair
  • Osama Ibrahim Seddiqi