Assiut Catholic Foundation for Comprehensive Development

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Youth and women
Main field: social and economic empowerment; health and environmental awareness
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2001
The organization seeks to raise the living conditions for the marginalized, the disadvantaged and people with special needs.


Main Activity:

Microcredit programs for small businesses, seminars, and awareness campaigns

Ongoing projects

  • Microcredit program for women
  • Rural and agricultural development project

Past projects

  • Projects that combat illiteracy in girls
  • The Arab Woman Speaks Project
  • Projects that combat forced marriage
  • Health awareness campaigns for women
  • Microcredit programs for girls and women
  • HIV awareness campaigns
  • Avian flu seminars
  • Inclusion of special needs children
  • Engaging youth in community clean-up campaigns
  • Organizing digital safety seminars for students and their parents

Future projects

A project for the development of livestock and forage resources, financed by the European Union in cooperation with CARE Egypt