The Safety Home for the protection of those who are to family violence was established on 23/11/2006. It is a Governmental welfare establishment that is attached to the Ministry of Social Development – Directorate of Social Welfare – for the protection of women from the age of 18 years and above, who are exposed to violence and harm either by their families or by the society surrounding them, and it include citizens and non-citizens categories.                         

The Home Objectives 

1.            To provide accommodation for the category of women who are exposed to family and society violence

2.            To provide the required welfare and rehabilitation services for citizens and non-citizens women who are exposed to family and society violence in order to rebuild their personalities and to ensure their fitness and proper integration in the society

3.            To follow-up the cases that are returned to their families to ensure they are not exposed to family’s and society violence, and to ascertain their adaptation in their family and society surrounding

4.            To work on rehabilitating the families whose women are exposed to harm in its different forms

5.            To work on increasing the society’s awareness and to highlight this problem in order to provide the required protection

6.            To liaise with different official, national and private concerned bodies to resolve the problem of this category, facilitate the procedures to accommodate them and provide the required protection for them

7.            To prepare and implement the required legislations and laws for the protection of women who are exposed to harm

8.            To provide different types of living, welfare, medical, psychological and recreational services for this category

9.            To liaise with the concerned official bodies to finalize the procedures to accommodate or rehabilitate foreign women

10.        To conduct field researches and studies to restrict the magnitude of this problem, and to identify its causes and the ways to ways to resolve it, in coordination with the concerned bodies

11.        To install a hot-line to provide speedy counseling services for the women who are exposed to family’s and society violence

12.        To build up a data base to restrict and follow up the cases.

Types of Welfare at the Home: 

Permanent Welfare: To accommodate the cases whose circumstances do not permit them to return to their families as their lives might be endangered, until their rehabilitation is completed and they become able to live independently and rely on themselves.

Temporary Welfare: It means that the case joins the Home for a limited period, until its family circumstances improve and it returns to the family, or to finalize the procedures to deport it.

Intermittent Welfare: It means the case moves to reside between the Home and the family alternately, according to the therapy and welfare requirements and subject to the programme prepared by the Home administration.

Family Welfare: It means that the Home follows-up the case with its family or after it moves to its family to ascertain that is not exposed to harm.

Programmes and Services: 

-         Social welfare

-         Medical welfare

-         Psychological welfare

-         Educational welfare

-         Living welfare and personal hygiene

-         Recreational services.

Acceptance Conditions: 

 The case is accepted in the Home subject to the availability of the following conditions

1.            The woman age is not less than 16 years

2.            She should be free from contagious diseases or mental disorder

3.            The social research and the medical and psychological examination should prove that she was exposed to physical or psychological or tangible harm by others. Also, the research should prove that the case cannot remain with the family until its status is rectified

4.            The case should have the interest to benefit from the Home services

Acceptance Procedures: 

1.        To submit an application to join the Home by the case or by any official, national or private body. It is also possible to receive applications from the case’s relatives and friends.

2.        To finalize the housing procedure by the Ministry of Interior or the Specialist court.

3.        To obtain the approval of the person who is legally responsible of the case, or from the specialized security bodies for housing in the Home.

4.        To conduct the social research.

5.        To prepare medical and social files.

6.        To make a comprehensive medical checkup.

7.        To conduct an examination / psychological tests to determine the case type and its severity from psychological aspect

The Mendicants and Vagrants Welfare Home is a Governmental welfare establishment that is attached to the Ministry of Social Development – Directorate of Social Welfare and it is concerned with the provision of welfare aspects and different services for the mendicant and vagrant for the first time. 

The Home Objectives: 

1.            To participate in contending  the phenomenon of mendicancy and vagrancy in the Kingdom of Bahrain

2.            To receive mendicants and vagrants of both sexes who are caught during mendicancy

3.            To provide welfare, medical, psychological, and living aspects during their staying period

4.            To implement different programmes that help mendicants and vagrants to relinquish practicing mendicancy and vagrancy.

5.            To liaise with the concerned bodies to transfer the cases of mendicants and vagrants whom circumstances qualify them to benefit from the services of such bodies

6.            To strengthen the tie between the mendicant/vagrant and his family, and to work on providing financial and moral welfare to assist him in stopping from practicing mendicancy

7.            To work on intensifying the guidance and directive programmes to reduce and eliminate mendicancy and vagrancy, through utilizing different communication means

8.            To collaborate with the concerned authorities in order to follow-up and spot the cases of mendicancy and vagrancy, and chase them up to limit their spread

Programmes and Services: 

The home provides the following programmes and services:

1.            Social welfare programme

2.            Medical welfare programme

3.            Cultural and recreational programme 

Acceptance Conditions: 

The followings are conditional to accept the mendicant in the home:

1. He should be of a Bahraini nationality or one of the residents in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
2. He was caught in the state of mendicancy and vagrancy for the first time.
3. He is free from contagious diseases or mental disorders.
4. Issuance of an order by the public prosecution to house the mendicant or vagrant in the home.

Acceptance Procedures

When the mendicant or vagrant is transferred to house him in the home for the first time, the following should be adhered to:

1.            To house the mendicant or vagrant who is caught by the specialized bodies after presenting him in front of the Public Prosecution and issuing an order to house him in the home, and recording his name in the special register

2.            To open up a file for each mendicant or vagrant

3.            To contact the mendicant or vagrant’s family and notify them of the case in order to cooperate with them concerning his case

4.            To conduct a comprehensive medical examination

5.            To conduct a social research to determine and specify the reasons and factors that led him to practice mendicancy or vagrancy, in order to take the measures that suit the circumstances of each case

6.            To submit a detailed report about the social status of the mendicant or vagrant to the Public Prosecution to determine whatever is necessary regarding him. The report should be submitted prior to the expiry of the period specified to house him