Caritas Egypt

Caritas Egypt is affiliated to the Caritas International Confederation, a network of Catholic charities.The first Caritas office opened in Germany in 1897 to help vulnerable communities at times of crisis such as wartorn individuals and immigrants. The organization worked on nursing victims of crisis and supporting them in fighting hunger, disease, poverty, marginalization, and addiction. Nowadays, Caritas has offices in over 165 countries and implements projects in 200 of the most impoverished countries. It works on community development, implements human rights policies to raise awareness, shares expertise, and supports vulnerable individuals and provides them with opportunities to understand the full capacity of their capabilities in order to lead a healthy social, economic and cultural life.

Main Activity:

Awareness campaigns, trainings, microcredit programs, seminars, and  literacy classes

Ongoing projects

• Implementing an adult literacy program
• Implementing a microcredit program provided by the Egyptian Swiss Development Fund
• Implementing a reproductive health awareness program
• Working on the empowerment of small business owners by providing them with the needed skills and tools to better manage and execute their business ideas and projects
• Raising the economic and social standards for beneficiaries and their families through the implemented projects
• Supporting small projects and businesses to become sustainable and compete in the market
• Providing: marriage preparation courses, civics course for girls, reproductive health awareness for girls, and health awareness for teenagers with a focus on the prevention of early marriage and FGM
• Organizing interactive theatre performances that focus on topics such as early marriage and FGM
• Building the capacity of the society at large, by supporting local organizations and groups that work on the economic empowerment of women
  oups represented by local organizations which economically empower women

Past projects

• Basic Education Project that includes annual adult literacy programs
• Establishing cultural centers such as the village and suburb library, which encourages and supports beneficiaries of the adult literacy programs to develop their skills.
• Participation and Empowerment Project, which worked on supporting villagers to develop and improve their society
• Safety and Security Project, which held various seminars, festivals and local community meetings as well as board meetings that aimed to improve women’s rights in Egypt to provide a safe environment that advocates her rights on a local and national level
• Economic empowerment for women
• Plan Initiative, which was a women's empowerment initiative that executed projects, established adult literacy schools, helped women issue national IDs and birth certificates, and helped mothers receive child disability assistance payment.
• Eshraq Plus was a project that aimed to provide technical support and training, as well as implement “Learn and be Free” program
• New Vision Project, which aimed to raise health awareness and in lowering the prevalence of illiteracy among women and children
• Microcredit programs from the Egyptian Swiss Development Fund
• New Horizons Project, which worked on empowering unemployed youths in impoverished communities
• Projects that aimed to raise awareness of reproductive health
• A national program for empowering families and the prevention of FGM
• Supporting local organizations to raise awareness about health and reproductive rights
• Raising awareness in schools about the importance of the prevention of FGM 
• Children at Risk Project for the protection and rehabilitation of children at risk

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