Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation

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

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation is a non-profit charity organization 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]

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:

Projects and activities

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

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City was opened by then Crown Prince Abdullah in Riyadh on 30 October 2002.[5] It was financed by Prince Sultan’s charitable foundation at a cost of 1.2 billion riyals ($320 million).[6][7] 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.

Council of trustees

Chairman of Council of Trustees is Khalid bin Sultan, and 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.[9][10] The members of the board are late Crown Prince Sultan's sons who are older than twenty years: Bandar bin Sultan, Nayef bin Sultan, Badr bin Sultan, Saud bin Sultan, Ahmad bin Sultan, Mansoor bin Sultan, Abdallah bin Sultan, Mishaal bin Sultan and Fawwaz bin Sultan.[10]

References

  1. Khalid Al Yahya; Nathalie Fustier (March 2011). "Saudi Arabia as a humanitarian donor:High potential, little institutionalization" (PDF). Global Public Policy Institute. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  2. Henderson, Simon (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 March 31, 2012.
  4. "Map of Humanitarian City". Wikimapia. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  5. Omar Al Zobaidy; Mohammed Al Harbi (31 October 2002). "Abdullah opens humanitarian city near Riyadh". Arab News. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  6. Nimrod Raphaeli (2003). "Saudi Arabia: A brief guide to its politics and problems" (PDF). Middle East Review of International Affairs 7 (3): 21–33. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  7. Al Harbi, Mohammed (28 October 2002). "Prince Sultan Humanitarian City opens Wednesday". Arab News. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  8. "Biography. Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman bin Faisal Al Saud". iTTaleem. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  9. "About us". Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  10. 1 2 "About us". Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud Foundation. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

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