JEDDAH: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Bab Rizq Jameel over the weekend in the course of his short visit to the Kingdom. Bab Rizq Jameel is an initiative of Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Programs (ALJCSP).
ALJCSP’s President Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel and Director Ibrahim Mohammed Badawood accorded a welcome and conducted him on a tour to explain its various activities.
The results achieved by Bab Rizq Jameel, including its training programs, direct employment schemes, productive household projects, small business finance, and taxi and truck ownership programs, were explained to Blair.
Badawood said that ALJCSP, since the beginning of 2008, has provided employment for 5,355 young males and females in the private sector, while job opportunities have been created for 3,736 others through training.
In the area of supporting females, the productive household program created 13,822 job opportunities since the beginning of this year.
In other area, the small project finance program financed 1,440 young males and females to start their own small projects, while 395 opportunities and 269 opportunities have been created through the taxi and truck ownership programs, respectively. Since the beginning of this year, a total of 25,000 job opportunities have been created for young males and females throughout the Kingdom.
Blair expressed his pleasure for being given the opportunity to visit Bab Rizq Jameel and appreciation of the presentation. He also thanked Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel for the invitation and opportunity to meet those associates engaged with the program, saying that Bab Rizq Jameel is “truly inspirational” and is a project “that has the capacity to change the world.”
