منطقة الجوف-جامعة الجوف

Introduction

Saudi Arabia ranked 10th globally and first in the Arab world in terms of the lowest poverty rate, according to a recent poverty report released by the World Bank. The Saudi government has spent billions of riyals annually to provide better education, health care and infrastructure facilities to decrease the growing number of poor people.

The government also provides allowances, monthly benefits and payments for food and utility bills to the poor, elderly, disabled, orphans and workers who are injured on the job.

Moreover, the government’s main focus is on reducing poverty, raising standards of living, increasing productivity of the economy, strengthening the science and technology base, fostering a solid research and development capacity, and enhancing the performance of the public sector.

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter and spends more than 4 percent of its total GDP annually on donations and humanitarian aid that reaches people in more than 110 countries around the globe.

At Jouf University, we took the decision to fight poverty through our work on legal support projects, public interest litigation, twinning law students and law departments at universities, training law students and junior lawyers and fundraising for our Justice Fund (amongst other projects!). We put law at the forefront of what we do.

Jouf University believes that poverty can and must be fought. Jouf creates an organized group within the community to help many people, rather than only a few individuals. Rather than working with individual persons, it is more effective to facilitate collective and organized actions to help strengthen and empower people in poverty through an organization. So, through this organization, each individual is developed, and steps are taken to address their problems and other problems in the future.