The Al-Ehsan foundation for the empowerment of women and children, based in Al-Samrab, Khartoum, Sudan helps people to improve their own lives by empowering women and children, providing assistance to communities, and providing access to resources and tools for change. We target our efforts specifically to what a community needs, and we are guided at every step by the community. We focus on increa
sing literacy for women and children, improving the health of community, and eradicating poverty. AlSamrab is crowed and has a relatively poor infrastructure and few amenities. Nearly all residents are poorly educated and unskilled. Many are unemployed, most are poverty-stricken, and a shocking number are sick with numerous life threating diseases. The average household income is less than USD 200 per month. This segment of the population with an on going history of social deprivation suffers from a myriad of economic and social disadvantage that are endemic in the community. The physical neighbourhood is a bleak cluster of shacks, shanties, and social housing, aligned along depressing streets. The mosque site was a left over parcel in this grid, dusty field surrounded on one sides by housing and on the other two by dusty side streets. Aside from the streets, the only significant feature marking the site was a grove of trees standing far to the east.
