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Arab Relief Institutions Operating in Africa, their Poverty -Resistant Developmental Role:Kuwaiti Social Reform Association, and their Efforts in Djibouti as a Model

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The African continent has suffered and still sufferingof poverty, ignorance and disease from long decades and centuries, and that relief institutions in general, and Arab ones in particular are considered one of the most important matters and reasons that reduce this suffering and deprivation, and from theseinstitutions and large associations is the Social Reform Association in Kuwait, and it is a followedmodelin the field of development efforts to serve African societies and others, and the research problem lies in exploring the role that Arab relief institutions played in resisting poverty, and contributing to the development of poor African societies, as we apply this to a specific experience which is the experience of the Social Reform Association in the Djibouti country in eastern Africa, specifically in The Horn of Africa. The research aims to introduce Arab relief institutions, especially those workers in Africa, and to identify one of the distinguished development experiences and present them as a role model for integrated development projects. The research pursued an analytical and descriptive approach, as it depends on collecting data from its prohibitions in the form of initial reports issued by those institutions and the regulatory authorities, then we analyze all of this to put an integrated image on the issue the subject of the study. The research concluded that the Arab relief institutions, even if they are relatively newly established, are playing very important roles in terms of supporting development efforts in Africa, and they have helped a lot tofacing these problems and overcoming them, including the Kuwaiti Social Reform Association, which took over the undertaking of relief and development work on The international level in the various countries of the Islamic world, and we have found that it has already been able to provide a leading, integrated development work in its social, educational and health dimensions.

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Vol. 31 No. 1

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Africa, Poverty, Social, Reform, Djibouti

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Abdelfattah Tantawy, M. A. T., & Al-Tahitah, A. N. (2023). Arab Relief Institutions Operating In Africa, Their Poverty -Resistant Developmental Role : Kuwaiti Social Reform Association, And Their Efforts In Djibouti As A Model: المؤسسات الاغاثية العربية العاملة بأفريقيا، ودورها التنموي المقاوم للفقر: جمعية الإصلاح الاجتماعي الكويتية، وجهودها بجيبوتي نموذجا. Al-Qanatir: International Journal of Islamic Studies, 31(1), 39–57. Retrieved from https://al-qanatir.com/aq/article/view/458