Boys Welfare Home

The Boys Welfare Office provides care and follow-up services for boys (of unknown parents) who are over the age of 18 and who live an independent life outside the home. The Board of Trustees of the Child Welfare Foundation contributes to the financing of these services.

The Boys Welfare Home's Objectives:

1. Providing living, social, medical, psychological, and recreational services for boys of unknown parents and which suit their needs. Proving an adequate temporary housing for those non-fostered boys until they complete their education and become able to depend on themselves.
2. Training  boys on direct contact with the society, build social relationship and acquire experiences that benefit them in their future life and help them integrate in the society.
3. Seeking to provide opportunities to continue education for those who have not completed  their study, or guide them to join vocational training Centers according to their capabilities.
4. Providing work opportunities for the boys to enable them to lead an independent life.
5. Providing job opportunities for boys to enable them to be independent in their lives according to their capabilities and qualifications and according to the available job opportunities.

It offers the graduated boys with an integrated set of services, social and educational care, psychological care, health and recreational care, as well as following-up on the boy's fusion into the public life, as well as his independence to ensure his adaptation into society.

The boy is pursued after graduation and being able to rely on himself and adapt with the community through contributing to the graduation and aftercare program, which includes:

1. Study the case of the graduated boy from all aspects and prepare a detailed report on him before graduation, providing that the prepared report is part of the identity papers of the graduated boy.
2. Prepare a file of the boy’s graduation procedures provided that all information related to him is written on his departure from the home.
3. Provide an independent and proper housing unit in a suitable location for the graduated boy with expenditures not exceeding 350 dinars per month, inclusive of municipal, electricity and water fees, until he obtains a fixed job with a rewarding return. The graduated boy should be committed to taking care of this place once the house is given to him. From then, he will be directly responsible for it.
4. Finding a permanent and stable job opportunity for the graduated boy, while taking into account his abilities, readiness and qualifications.
5. Develop the preparation programs for children who are about to graduate to help them adapt to the work environment and society, face the daily problems and find appropriate solutions for them.
6. Developing the boy’s skills in relation to driving a car and providing the necessary assistance in order to obtain a valid driver's license from the competent authority at the Ministry of Interior.
7. Provide moral support for the committed graduate boy during his stay in the independent housing. It is possible to consider providing financial support that is agreeable with the graduate boy’s financial conditions and his monthly salary, so that it does not exceed BD350.
8. Provide financial aid from the home’s account for the graduated boy who continues his study successfully in continuing education, and secondary and university levels until graduation. Such financial aid must be withheld upon failure without justification accepted by the Board.
9. Open an account with a bank in the name of the graduating boy and depositing the sums allocated from the royal donation into it, provided that the disbursement process is monitored
10. Help the graduate in choosing a good wife upon his request and assist him in holding the wedding.
11. The board of directors provide a financial grant from the home’s account to the graduate in case he wishes to own a car, provided he submits all the necessary papers for that and obtains the Ministry’s approval.
12. Allow the graduated boy to continue to live in the home for another six months in case he does not get an independent job and a separate accommodation is to be prepared for him. He must be deprived of such benefit in case he refuses to accept the job opportunity offered to him.
13. Allow the graduate to continue to live in the home for another six months in case he is continuing his successful study at the secondary and university stages. He must be deprived of such benefit if he fails in any of these two stages without a justification acceptable to the Board.
14. The house provides food to the graduated boy, according a ministerial decree.
15. The graduate boy, who works and is dedicated to his work with a salary less than BD350 per month, receives a set of material aid, as well as for a disciplined university student.