our partners

The 16 NGOs under the Progressio-Yemen LNGO Programme include:

Yemen Child Rights

Child rights education, mother and child health clinics, health education and services.

Female Future Association

Children education, skills training for women

Women Sustainable Development

Micro credit, skills training for women

General Social Services Association

Health education, social services provision, reproductive health education

Child and Woman Development Association

Working with women on home economics, handicraft training, sewing and marketing literacy

Child Labour Fighting Association

Charitable activities including child labour research and education

Wedian Association for Social Development

Credit provision, skills training for poor families and members of the association, livelihood training of women on sewing and handicrafts, food ration program, community health and sanitation

Women's Association for Hygienic Awareness and Psychological Guidance

Gender awareness, psychological guidance, HIV and AIDS education and campaign

Mabarrat Aden Society

Orphans, environment

Al-Wafa Female Association for Development

Micro credit schemes

Ar-Rahma Association for Children's Mental Care

Handicapped children. Cooperates with Aden University

Association for Poverty Reduction

Community based programs on small infrastructure, rights-based advocacy, orphans and livelihood training for women

Aden Women's Association for Family Promotion

Education, Reproductive health, skills training, micro credit, marketing, food ration program

At-Tadhamon Association

Working with mentally retarded women and children, marketing support for women, micro credit and skills training for women

Association of Yemeni Returnees from Somalia

Works with African-born Yemenis, minorities, micro credit and skills training for members

Al-Aidaross Association

Food ration loan schemes, micro credit, advocacy, youth employment promotion and women's skills training

The partners under the Progressio-Yemen HIV and AIDS Programme include:

Abu Musa Al Ashary Charitable Association

A faith-based organisation established in 1999 with the objective of rendering charitable services including a literacy and education program for the poor and orphans. The organisation works closely with poor communities, mosque leaders, children, fishermen and women and has a good reach in all 22 districts of Hodeidah Governorate. Project activities include providing dormitories for poor students, access to basic health services and education, access to higher education, summer camps for poor students and providing vocational trainings.

Jamiat al Mustaqbil

Health awareness-raising among communities and schools, promoting nutritional gardens, nurseries and reforestation projects through the provision of plants and technical training to farmers; fighting desertification, and promoting local cottage industries.

Women's Forum for Research and Training

A women's led LNGO established in 2000 with the purpose of increasing coordination and action on the cause of women's rights in Yemen. The forum is most active in conducting research into issues affecting women in Yemen, organising conferences, seminars and training workshops, publishing human rights information, providing advocacy and training, and support for media production as well as developing training curricula for other LNGOS or women's community groups.

Yemen AIDS Prevention Association

A LNGO specifically working on HIV and AIDS and STIs and providing trainings on HIV and AIDS. It targets schools, religious leaders, media personnel, policy makers as well as raising general awareness in local communities. Principle issues include: prevention of HIV and AIDS transmission methods, HIV and AIDS and sex, encouraging voluntary testing, awareness-raising on confidentiality, provision of a hot line service, refugees and HIV and AIDS - lobbying against the negative image of refugees, provision of counselling to people who test positive for HIV, developing IEC material for public consumption, working with Yemeni youth.

Women's Psychic Guidance and Hygienic Awareness

Works to provide psychological guidance and counselling on the issue of violence against women. Conducts sessions in schools and colleges to deal with anxiety and psychological crises among students. Manages the Noor Institute for the Blind, a rehabilitation programme for the blind and mentally ill. Addresses women's health issues including female circumcision as well as general psychological guidance to the disabled.

Women's Association for Sustainable Development

Works to improve the economic and social status of women in Yemen. Activities include supporting micro enterprises, forming self help groups of poor women in slum areas, vocational training for income generation programs, employment generating activities for the unemployed and poor, supporting the improvement of family based cottage industries for income generation.

Overall the work of the Yemen-Progressio HIV and AIDS Programme is undertaken in co-ordination with the Yemen National AIDS Program.