Tamdeen Youth Foundation is a Yemeni nonprofit that started as a youth-volunteer organization and has since grown to support areas including humanitarian response, local development, climate action, peacebuilding, youth and women empowerment, and good governance.
In just 11 years, the foundation has carried out 141 projects that have benefited over 6 million people. It has also received about $20 million in awards and funding from organizations such as the World Food Programme, UNICEF, the Hilton Foundation, CARE, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and more.
Another interesting tidbit: It spearheaded a Yemeni localization initiative in August 2021, which was launched in partnership with 40 other member organizations. The goal is to ensure humanitarian aid shifts from emergency aid to development by addressing unequal partnerships between international and local organizations, policy barriers, constraints such as weak institutions, and fragmented funding.
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