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SHAMBAT SOCIO-CULTURAL FOUNDATION al-NEEMA

Town of Depth

* The town was established way back prior to the rise of the Sennar-based Zargah Sultanate in the 16th century. Thus, Shambat is even centuries older than Khartoum, the capital.ذ
* The inhabitants, some 25 thousands, are a mix of several tribes that inter-married to develop a purely rural community dominated by the same value deeply-rooted in Sudanese rural communities.
The inhabitants used to cultivate the banks of the river Nile for a living. They also practiced rain-fed farming (to the east of the town) and animal rearing. However, the policy of expropriation of land dealt them a heavy blow. First the colonial power took part of the land adjacent to the river, to build on government institutions. Then, in the 1960s, the plots of rain-fed land they used to cultivate were expropriated for housing purposes. Losing the land, the town people were so impoverished that their later generations had to seek employment with the government or private sectors as the only source of income.
* Being so close to the seat of government had a negative impact on the population. They had to part with their land and were greatly impoverished as a result. However, there was a brighter side to that, as people benefited from education services, and illiteracy is almost wiped out.
* Social ties in the town are based on how closely related the people are, on solidarity and takaful, or communal help. Even today, nafeer (enlisting the help of community in getting work done) is still the major characteristic of the non-urbanite community of Shambat.











THE FOUNDATION al-NEEMA

This is a voluntary, multi-purpose organization registered in 1997, which strives to achieve the following objects:
* Fight poverty and attempt to relief social risks resultant thereof.
* Mobilize resources and use them to benefit the community in relation to development and its sustainability.
* Caring for the environment.
* Contribute to averting disasters, fighting endemic diseases and otherwise – such as AIDS
* Granting children a high-priority in care.
* Empowering women and building their capacities.
* Train and quality the youth towards serving the community.
* Solidify values of communal solidarity.
* Contribute to the establishment of cultural production facilities such as auditorium, theatres, libraries, museums, galleries and viewer clubs.
* Contribute to e-literacy campaigns.
Contribute to the development of the Shambat area, serving the community towards serving the greater community of homeland.
To help achieve such objects, the Foundation is run in accordance with the following principles:
1- Prohibition of all forms of political activity.
2- Adherence to the voluntary and democratic nature of activity.
3- Combat spirit of bigotry and prejudice in all forms of its tribal, ideological, political and sporting manifestations.
4- Make the public interest override the individual interest.
5- Cooperate with developmental, cultural, social, service, or sports organization in any activity that does not contradict with the organization principles or prevailing law in the country.
Management and finance:
Board of Directors: 15 elected members
Membership: 500 registered members- 80 active members
Board of Trustees 100 members
Funding:
Efforts exerted voluntarily.
Donations, in kind, by residents, friends and Sudanese expatriates.
Income generated through (nominal) fees imposed on equipment leased and services rendered by the Foundation - e.g. leasing out outdoors' equipment needed for social gatherings, occasions, etc.
Earnings from sales of the 'Neema' newsletter, issued by the Foundation ever since 1991. the publication caters to issues of development and culture in the community.
Deposits into the Foundation's account (A/C No 5710) with the Omdurman National bank (Shari' el Jamhuriyah Branch).
The first neem tree ever introduced into the country came from India and was planted in Shambat in 1914. Hence the logo. The newsletter started out as a wall-hanged paper in 1991 and went on to take the shape of a leaflet then a tabloid-size newsletter, and obtained the license from the National Press Council i n 1993. The success of the newsletter led to the establishment and registration of the Shambat Social & Cultural Foundation (Neema), in March, 1997.
A genuinely sincere call:
* In anticipation and readying for the requirements of a demanding future activity, we desperately need computers. Can the well-off give a hand? Wherever you are, please help.
* The last ever public lecture given by the late Prof. Abdullah el Tayeb, was organized by the Foundation in April, 1998.
* The symposium hosted by the Foundation, and addressed by the former
Minister of Engineering Affairs, Dr Sharaf el Deen Bannagah, managed to have work started on the tarmac-paving of the town's streets, less than a week following that debate.
* Despite the aging few computers we have now, we managed to graduate 250 students, in the Foundation's e-literacy effort exerted between 1999 and 2002. The project won the special tribunal award of the World Bank (Development Market) contest in Addis Ababa in Feb 2003.
* The Foundation was officially declared a tributary of the 'Khartoum: Cultural capital of the Arab World, 2005' project.






SHAMBAT SOCIO-CULTURAL FOUNDATION al-NEEMA

Town of Depth

* The town was established way back prior to the rise of the Sennar-based Zargah Sultanate in the 16th century. Thus, Shambat is even centuries older than Khartoum, the capital.ذ
* The inhabitants, some 25 thousands, are a mix of several tribes that inter-married to develop a purely rural community dominated by the same value deeply-rooted in Sudanese rural communities.
The inhabitants used to cultivate the banks of the river Nile for a living. They also practiced rain-fed farming (to the east of the town) and animal rearing. However, the policy of expropriation of land dealt them a heavy blow. First the colonial power took part of the land adjacent to the river, to build on government institutions. Then, in the 1960s, the plots of rain-fed land they used to cultivate were expropriated for housing purposes. Losing the land, the town people were so impoverished that their later generations had to seek employment with the government or private sectors as the only source of income.
* Being so close to the seat of government had a negative impact on the population. They had to part with their land and were greatly impoverished as a result. However, there was a brighter side to that, as people benefited from education services, and illiteracy is almost wiped out.
* Social ties in the town are based on how closely related the people are, on solidarity and takaful, or communal help. Even today, nafeer (enlisting the help of community in getting work done) is still the major characteristic of the non-urbanite community of Shambat.











THE FOUNDATION al-NEEMA

This is a voluntary, multi-purpose organization registered in 1997, which strives to achieve the following objects:
* Fight poverty and attempt to relief social risks resultant thereof.
* Mobilize resources and use them to benefit the community in relation to development and its sustainability.
* Caring for the environment.
* Contribute to averting disasters, fighting endemic diseases and otherwise – such as AIDS
* Granting children a high-priority in care.
* Empowering women and building their capacities.
* Train and quality the youth towards serving the community.
* Solidify values of communal solidarity.
* Contribute to the establishment of cultural production facilities such as auditorium, theatres, libraries, museums, galleries and viewer clubs.
* Contribute to e-literacy campaigns.
Contribute to the development of the Shambat area, serving the community towards serving the greater community of homeland.
To help achieve such objects, the Foundation is run in accordance with the following principles:
1- Prohibition of all forms of political activity.
2- Adherence to the voluntary and democratic nature of activity.
3- Combat spirit of bigotry and prejudice in all forms of its tribal, ideological, political and sporting manifestations.
4- Make the public interest override the individual interest.
5- Cooperate with developmental, cultural, social, service, or sports organization in any activity that does not contradict with the organization principles or prevailing law in the country.
Management and finance:
Board of Directors: 15 elected members
Membership: 500 registered members- 80 active members
Board of Trustees 100 members
Funding:
Efforts exerted voluntarily.
Donations, in kind, by residents, friends and Sudanese expatriates.
Income generated through (nominal) fees imposed on equipment leased and services rendered by the Foundation - e.g. leasing out outdoors' equipment needed for social gatherings, occasions, etc.
Earnings from sales of the 'Neema' newsletter, issued by the Foundation ever since 1991. the publication caters to issues of development and culture in the community.
Deposits into the Foundation's account (A/C No 5710) with the Omdurman National bank (Shari' el Jamhuriyah Branch).
The first neem tree ever introduced into the country came from India and was planted in Shambat in 1914. Hence the logo. The newsletter started out as a wall-hanged paper in 1991 and went on to take the shape of a leaflet then a tabloid-size newsletter, and obtained the license from the National Press Council i n 1993. The success of the newsletter led to the establishment and registration of the Shambat Social & Cultural Foundation (Neema), in March, 1997.
A genuinely sincere call:
* In anticipation and readying for the requirements of a demanding future activity, we desperately need computers. Can the well-off give a hand? Wherever you are, please help.
* The last ever public lecture given by the late Prof. Abdullah el Tayeb, was organized by the Foundation in April, 1998.
* The symposium hosted by the Foundation, and addressed by the former
Minister of Engineering Affairs, Dr Sharaf el Deen Bannagah, managed to have work started on the tarmac-paving of the town's streets, less than a week following that debate.
* Despite the aging few computers we have now, we managed to graduate 250 students, in the Foundation's e-literacy effort exerted between 1999 and 2002. The project won the special tribunal award of the World Bank (Development Market) contest in Addis Ababa in Feb 2003.
* The Foundation was officially declared a tributary of the 'Khartoum: Cultural capital of the Arab World, 2005' project.