Rahima Foundation
Rahima International Foundation
Since its founding in the San Francisco Bay Area over 30 years ago, Rahima International Foundation has fostered health and well-being by addressing financial needs and food insecurity in the communities it supports. With dignity and respect, Rahima promotes equitable, inclusive and collaborative communities, both in the United States and globally.
Rahima was founded in November 1993 by Mrs. Habibe Husain and registered in February 1997 as a 501c(3) Charitable and Educational Foundation. Recognizing an immediate and underserved need within her local community, the founder identified dozens of families who were struggling to make ends meet, many of them recently arrived refugees from Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Like many Bay Area enterprises which have evolved to greater impact, Rahima was nurtured in a home garage, with the founder collecting non-perishable food items and distributing them to local families in need.
From these grassroots beginnings, the organization’s capabilities and reach rapidly broadened. Through a partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank, Rahima’s ability to address growing food insecurity in California expanded significantly, with operations moving to Rahima warehouses and 25 tons of groceries distributed each month. The organization’s services also expanded to provide financial assistance to thousands of families. In 2019, Rahima developed a Wellness Program in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente, California’s largest healthcare provider, to supply groceries to support a healthy diet to low-income patients.
In fulfillment of its international mission, Rahima was pleased to embark on a humanitarian aid partnership to support UNHCR in 2023. In its first year, the program provided cash assistance to more than 24,612 refugees and internally displaced persons in Jordan. Primarily distributed to Syrian refugees, these funds were used to meet recipients’ basic needs and support longer-term financial independence. Rahima representatives have attended events, forums and roundtables hosted by USA for UNHCR in Washington DC and New York, notably speaking with commitment and passion about their work together at the 2024 United Nations General Assembly.
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