Okaz/Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — The Human Sources Growth Fund (HADAF), below the Ministry of Human Sources and Social Growth, revealed that greater than 25,000 Saudi girls have benefited from the Supporting Childcare for Working Girls (Qurrah) Program ever since its launch in November 2017 till September 2023. The Qurrah helps Saudi girls staff with allotting SR1600 for every little one registered in this system.
The variety of facilities to offer youngsters’s hospitality companies authorised below this system reached about 1,200 hospitality facilities positioned in all areas of the Kingdom, whereas the variety of youngsters who’ve benefited from this system reached 26,750 youngsters.
Qurrah program is an e-service supplied by the HADAF that renders childcare companies in Saudi Arabia with the intent to enhance and develop the surroundings and amenities of the youngsters’s hospitality sector whereas concurrently supporting the growth of working Saudi girls within the personal sector. The service creates a body of communication that bridges the hole between hospitality facilities, resulting in advertising these companies to guardians searching for environment friendly day-care facilities to register their youngsters.
This system goals to empower Saudi girls with regard to their work and growing their participation within the labor market, help their job stability, and guarantee their consistency within the labor market whereas being reassured concerning the care supplied to their youngsters in one of many authorised facilities by way of the Qurrah platform. It contributes to masking as much as 50 % of the price of internet hosting youngsters from new child to six years outdated with an quantity of no more than SR1600 per little one, with no higher restrict on the variety of youngsters.
The Qurrah program witnessed a number of enhancements with regard to assembly the wants of beneficiaries and developments within the labor market, together with creating the digital registration journey in this system and the help mechanism, and facilitating the digital cost course of by way of the web site. It additionally empowers working girls, who’re registered with the social insurance coverage and who fulfilled the circumstances to register within the Qurrah program, by way of the HADAF’s official web site.