What We Do

We Organize Activities And Implement Projects That Benefit Communities And Individuals Around The World, With Focus On Yemen And Yemeni Communities In Canada And Around The World.

Culture

  • We organize events to educate new immigrants from Yemen about Canada.
  • We organize public events to show the culture and contribution of Yemenis around the world.
  • We organize activities for the benefit for the general population in Canada to encourage friendship and social cooperation.
  • We organize events to raise awareness about Yemeni culture and Yemen.
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Peace Promotion

  • We promote dialogue and peace by encouraging Yemeni people to work together. We organize dialogue events, promote exchange of ideas and opinions as a mean to get people to understand each other, learn to respect differences, and co-exist.

Education

We believe in education as a mean of development and posititive change. We work to improve education in Yemen and provide children with better opportunity to learn.

Max Courage Curriculum: One of our projects is a literacy program to encourage children to read and express themselves. Children are encouraged to write stories describing their own experiences of courage. The stories are are published alongside the stories of other children of the world. Friends of Yemen have been implementing the program annualy since 2019. 

Canadian Activities:

Ottawa, 2022: Yemen Open Day II​

This is the second version of the Yemen Open Day in Ottawa. The event turned out to be a huge success, thanks to the contribution of many in the Yemeni community in Ottawa and sponsorship of Bukhari Restaurant. More than 200 people participated in the event at Vincent Massey Park. The event happened in September 25, 2022 between 1 and 5 pm.

We had a program for children, a cultural program showcasing Yemeni music, dance, and fashion. Children participated in the fashion show. We also had trivia where we asked questions about Yemen and Canada, and helped educate the participants.

Photos: Kais Al-Iriani, Mohamed Al-Humaidi, Radwan Al-Futaini

Ottawa, 2019:

Our first contribution is the participation in the “World Multicultural Festival 2019”. This was a unique opportunity to showcase Yemen and for the first time in such event demonstrate the richness of the Yemeni culture to our community in Ottawa. Hundreds of people passed by, enjoyed some of our treats and took pictures.