JEDDAH: The Social Charity Fund and Bab Rizq Jameel (BRJ) signed a mutual cooperation agreement to provide 10,640 job opportunities through several programs to provide support the categories targeted. By signing this agreement, the Fund is seeking to provide small and medium interest-free finance projects for beneficiaries, in addition to other productive household projects, training programs, training ending with employment and direct employment programs. All initiatives will be managed by BRJ, while beneficiaries will not be responsible for any fees. A mutual mechanism for providing training and finance to beneficiaries, who are selected from families benefiting from services of social security, charity foundations, orphans, widows, divorced, people recovered from narcotic addiction, and released prisoners and their families. Adil Nasim Farahat, general director of the Social Charity Fund, signed the agreement with Dr. Saad Al Ghamdi, senior deputy chief job creator at BRJ. Farahat stated that the most important objectives of the agreement are to expand the range of job creation for the categories targeted by the Fund, serve new provinces and cities through the wide reach of BRJ branches in the Kingdom, achieve goals of the Fund to improve living conditions for the target categories through non-traditional methods based on providing the right environment, and to create job opportunities compatible with abilities and skills of individuals and families and market demand for projects and job opportunities. “This agreement will be the beginning of a series of agreements that will help in providing appropriate job opportunities for young males and females,” Farahat added. Al Ghamdi said the agreement comes in line with mutual cooperation initiative between BRJ and the Social Charity Fund to create mutual channels for creating job opportunities and exchange experiences, and to launch initiatives that help developing the society and the national economy to achieve sustainable development. He added that BRJ is seeking to sign partnerships with several organizations in the public and private sectors to create more job opportunities for young males and females in the Kingdom.
