Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation is a non-profit charity organization in Saudi Arabia set up and funded by late Crown Prince Sultan in 1995. However, little is known about its activities and priorities as those of other royal charity organizations.[1]

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation
مؤسسة سلطان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود الخيرية
Founded1995 (1995)
FounderSultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Location
Area served
Saudi Arabia
Key people
Khalid bin Sultan
(Chairman)
Fahd bin Sultan
(Deputy Chairman)
Faisal bin Sultan
(Secretary General)

Certain writers such as Simon Henderson claimed that the foundation, together with others, namely International Islamic Relief Organization, Human Appeal International and Qatar Charitable Society, has links with both Islamic charities and terror groups.[2]

Objectives

The foundation has several humanitarian and social objectives:

  • Provision of social and healthcare as well as rehabilitation to the handicapped and elderly persons.
  • Creation of convalescent rehabilitation and nursing centers to provide a specialized advanced medical services.
  • Effective participation in spreading awareness among the handicapped and elderly of the ideal applications of care means in the house and society as well as promoting awareness of the symptoms of early senility and the physical and mental disability to reduce their complications.
  • Providing substitution equipments to those in need and helping them to socialize normally.
  • Conducting research in the fields of medical humanitarian works in cooperation with the international research centers.
  • Following up the scientific and technological advances, with special attention to the fields related to medicine and health.

Projects and activities

The foundation achieves its goals through the following projects and activities:

  • Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City:[3]

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City was opened by then Crown Prince Abdullah in Riyadh on 30 October 2002.[4] It was financed by Prince Sultan’s charitable foundation at a cost of 1.2 billion riyals ($320 million).[5] It is the biggest rehabilitation complex of its kind worldwide. It contains a complete center for medical check-ups, laboratories and radiation therapy sections, in addition to ten major operation rooms, eight minor operation rooms, and a medical rehabilitation center with a capacity of 250 beds. It also has rehabilitation center for the elderly with a capacity of 150 beds. It also contains a center for children development that can accommodate up to 150 children at the same time. This city is designed to receive newborn babies and children up to six years old. Its main goal is to carry out early_ intervention treatment to assist children who have minor disabilities to enable them to join public schools normally and independently. It does so by providing teaching and treatment programs to those who have physical disability, growth abnormalities, and health complexes that require special education.

  • The program offers medical and educational communication: Services via satellite, and fiber' optics networks. In addition, it spreads health education inside and outside the kingdom.
  • Sultan bin Abdulaziz Science and Technology Center: This center aims at spreading knowledge and supporting scientific and technological inventions, especially among children, donated by Prince Sultan to King Fahd University for Petrol & Minerals in Dhahran 2005.
  • Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz AI Saud Foundation's charity housing projects; It enables the families in need to possess houses. Several projects in the Southern Region, Tabuk Region and Hail Region have been developed. Each project consists of 100 fully furnished villas, all provided with the necessary utilities. The projects include mosques, schools, social centers and clinics.
  • Sultan bin Abdulaziz Special Education Program, at the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain: The program's objective is to qualify specialists in the field of special education.
  • Prince Sultan Center for Speech and Hearing in Bahrain: This center is a positive outcome of cooperation between Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation and the Bahraini Society for Child Development. It aims at qualifying the persons with hearing disabilities.
  • King Abdulaziz Center for Islamic Studies at Bologna University in Italy: The center is specialized in Islamic studies, including Islamic Shari'ah (law), history, philosophy, Arabic, and Oriental languages.
  • Sultan bin Abdulaziz Arab and Islamic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley: The program teaches Arabic language and Islamic Shari'ah (law). It provides support to researchers, visitors, graduates and post-graduates students, who have interest in studying subjects related to Arabic and Islamic world, in the area of language, history, sociology, and humanities, etc. It also aims at introducing the noble Islamic principles to foster bridges between the East and the West.[6]

Council of Trustees

The Chairman of the Council of Trustees is Khalid bin Sultan and the General Secretary of the Foundation is Faisal bin Sultan. Fahd bin Sultan is the Deputy Chairman and Salman bin Sultan is the Deputy General Secretary of the Foundation.[7][8] The members of the board are the late Crown Prince Sultan's sons: Bandar bin Sultan, Nayef bin Sultan, Badr bin Sultan, Saud bin Sultan, Ahmed bin Sultan, Mansour bin Sultan, Abdallah bin Sultan, Mishaal bin Sultan, Fawwaz bin Sultan, Abdul Ilah bin Sultan and Abdul Majeed bin Sultan.[9]

References
  1. Khalid Al Yahya; Nathalie Fustier (March 2011). "Saudi Arabia as a humanitarian donor:High potential, little institutionalization" (PDF). Global Public Policy Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  2. Simon Henderson (10 September 2003). "Institutionalized Islam: Saudi Arabia's Islamic Policies and the Threat They Pose" (PDF). Daily Islam. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  3. "Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City". Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
    - "Map of Humanitarian City". Wikimapia. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  4. Omar Al Zobaidy; Mohammed Al Harbi (31 October 2002). "Abdullah opens humanitarian city near Riyadh". Arab News. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  5. Nimrod Raphaeli (2003). "Saudi Arabia: A brief guide to its politics and problems" (PDF). Middle East Review of International Affairs. 7 (3): 21–33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2012.
    - Mohammed Al Harbi (28 October 2002). "Prince Sultan Humanitarian City opens Wednesday". Arab News. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  6. "Biography. Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman bin Faisal Al Saud". iTTaleem. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  7. "About us". Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  8. "About us". Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud Foundation. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  9. "Boards of Trustees". Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
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