A Kuwaiti charity has launched a fresh program to help, back up and rehabilitate a million Arab women who have been affected by regional wars. The initiative is primarily intended to provide psychological help to war-hit Arab women through drama or theater, said the Intisars Charity’s chairwoman Sheikha Intisar Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah at a news conference, acclaiming this as one of the most-up-to-date world psychological treatment programs.
“The program aims at the rebuilding of psychological capabilities of Arab women who have been affected by wars, given that the whole Arab family could be rebuilt once Arab women are rebuilt since they make up over 80 percent of the Arab family force,” she said.
“The program targets the empowerment of Arab women in general, irrespective of nationalities,” she added, noting that the initiative would begin with Syrian female refugees in Lebanon and women of different nationalities in Jordan. In this context, the Kuwaiti charity will set up a new center, the first of its kind in the Arab world, for training students of psychology colleges in the provision of psychological backup to war-hit women by using theater or drama, in collaboration with Ireland which shares cultural commonalities with Arab societies, Sheikha Intisar revealed.
Furthermore, an online magazine, called Intisar, and a news website, will be established by the humanitarian foundation early April in order to cover positive news stories and events not only in Kuwait but in the entire Arab world as well, she remarked. By so doing, the Intisars Charity is seeking to promote and consolidate the principle of positivity, and to disseminate the spirit of optimism and hopefulness in society, she noted.