A real opportunity is stronger than pity
Take A Chance is a licensed Jordanian non-profit, registered with the Ministry of Industry and Trade. We build people and empower them as human capital so they can become active, productive members of their communities — because a dignified person does not need pity so much as a real opportunity.
A licensed organization
Ministry of Industry and Trade · 2019
young people whose quality of life improved
families embraced
volunteers trained
specialists qualified
From a grassroots journey… to a social entrepreneurship organization
We work to advance the Sustainable Development Goals: from helping reduce poverty, to promoting fairness in the distribution of opportunities between the sexes, to the economic and social empowerment of the less fortunate — by designing and delivering high-quality, sustainable projects and programs grounded in social entrepreneurship.
The organization was founded in 2019 after a journey of fieldwork that began in 2015, rooted in our belief that every dignified person deserves a real opportunity that empowers them to build their own future with dignity, independence and broad choices.
Milestones that made an impact
The grassroots beginning
We started with hands-on volunteer work alongside orphaned children — Ramadan iftars, clothing drives and seasonal events — and that is where our deepest insights were born.
Founding the organization
We turned the experience into a licensed social entrepreneurship organization, with a sustainable empowerment model that accompanies people over the long term instead of offering seasonal attention.
A widening impact
A system of programs (Empowerment · Training · Networking) that has improved the quality of life of more than 220 young people, embraced 180 families, and trained 900 volunteers.
The prevailing approach deepens the wound of orphanhood… and we break it
We observed that seasonal initiatives come and go without leaving any real impact, and that the orphaned child became tied to the image of someone who receives charity rather than someone who creates impact. So our real question began:
Why do we deepen the wound of orphanhood instead of easing it?
Why don't we dream of a greater future for this child?
Why should they feel like a source of pity rather than a source of pride and achievement?
We don't give handouts… we create opportunities
Opportunities that help a person see themselves differently, and believe in their worth and their ability to create real impact — because the true starting point is for a person to know themselves and the potential within them.
Our vision
To institutionalize social entrepreneurship in order to build a more just and sustainable future through empowerment.
Our mission
Empowerment is the harder path… but it is the surest way to build the future.
Six aims we work toward
Changing the prevailing social patterns in how the less fortunate are treated.
Helping to break the cycles of poverty and ignorance.
Building high-quality, well-rounded human capital from among the less fortunate.
Raising the quality of life and happiness of individuals.
Institutionalizing a new model of sustainability in social entrepreneurship.
Strengthening the culture of social entrepreneurship within its proper frameworks.
The compass that guides us
A right for everyone
Economic and social empowerment is a right for everyone.
Broader choices
Development lies in creating broader choices.
Justice and equality
Justice and equality in the distribution of opportunities.
Belief in people
Belief in people's abilities and potential.
Sustainability
Sustainability in community work.
Entrepreneurship and impact
Leadership in empowerment and in creating impact.
We empower those who deserve the opportunity
Orphaned youth
We accompany them from age 13 until they reach true independence.
Mothers and women
Economic empowerment that turns passion into projects and independence.
The less fortunate
We work to break the cycles of poverty and need at their roots.
Youth and volunteers
We build a generation of changemakers capable of leading change.
A human being is God's creation… and blessed is everyone who had a hand in building them up.
We create opportunities… together
Real empowerment is not built alone, but through partnerships that believe in people and their capacity to change. Be part of a journey that makes a lasting difference in one person's future, forever.