Intisar Foundation - Innovative Management in Non-Profit Organization or NGOs
Company: Intisar Foundation, Whales, London , United Kingdom
Company Description: Intisar Foundation is a humanitarian UK- registered charity founded in 2018 to provide Arab women with mental health support. It is the first organization to work on the mental health of women affected by war and trauma in the Arab world. Our President and Founder, HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah, has always made it her mission to help heal others and help spread positivity.
Nomination Category: Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Award for Innovative Management in Non-Profit Organization or NGOs - Organizations with up to 100 Employees
Nomination Title: Intisar Foundation: A Victorious Humanitarian Charity Aiming To Heal 1 Million Arab Women For Peace Through Drama Therapy
Intisar Foundation is UK humanitarian charity founded in 2018 to provide Arab women with mental health support. It is the first and only organization working to improve the mental health of women affected by war through Drama Therapy.
Our Chairwomen and Founder, HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah, a pioneer philanthropist in the Arab world shows her mission and vision to support and heal others. She commits herself to the reconstruction of injured souls by focusing on the foundation’s mission on psychological support programs.
We exist to be part of the solution to bring peace to every woman in the Arab world. Intisar foundation launched a pioneering initiative to alleviate war in one million Arab women through the use of Drama therapy by 2040.
Intisar Foundation exists to be part of the solution to bring peace to the Arab World by providing an initial response through psychological support programs of drama therapy. Our aim is to educate and train 600+ Arab Drama Therapists and facilitators in 20 years from now. So that they can train women in their cultures, in their language, and in their communities. By supporting and empowering women, we believe they can change those around them to be better, as we hope to spread our message to all women across the Arab world.
Since launching Intisar Foundation in October 2018, HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah has faced a unique set of challenges that required flexibility and adaptability to reach her goal of healing one million Arab women through Drama Therapy. Drama Therapy, both as an academic and professional field, is greatly lacking and underdeveloped in the Arab world. With no higher education institutes in the Arab world teaching this field, no oversight body present, and little to no training and development opportunities. This meant that an infant approach was to be advanced over the next twenty years to reach the goals she set. This, however, did stop her from pursuing this operational methodology as the main pillar of her newly launched NGO.
In order to manage these drawbacks, HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah had to develop this field from the ground up. A technical committee was launched in 2020 with experts from different fields, with more international experts expected to join the committee in the coming months. These experts ensure an unbiased and professional undertaking of the affairs of Initsar Foundation.
We are dedicated to evidence-based research to improve and advance our efforts. All our work is documented, analyzed and researched to the best possible services for our one million Arab women for Peace. We have published a qualitative research (the power of theater expression and communication: a psychological therapeutical intervention in a refugee camp: an IPI study into the narratives of women refugees experience with drama therapy) paper in collaborating with David publishing journal and the neuroscience booklet to evoke the neuro plastic changes in the brain after receiving drama therapy .
Given that the field of Drama Therapy is in its early stages of development, HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah had to find ways to increase the number of professionals in this field who can administer the Drama Therapy programs. HH found a budding Drama Therapy program in Lebanon and launched a historic agreement. USEK is the only university in the Arab world currently offering a higher education degree in this field. Intisar Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with USEK to provide 15 scholarships annually to outstanding female students who are interested in Drama Therapy as a career. The scholarships include the opportunity to train the students in Drama Therapy through the programs Intisar Foundation holds for its beneficiaries in Lebanon and Jordan. This will and effort to advance a psychotherapeutic field both academically and professionally has never been done by an Arab entity.