Bi Aydina Nigheir wa Nitgheir Intiative (YMCA Aswan)

The initiative works to empower women and raise their awareness of their social and political rights by holding activities that advocate for gender equality and by overcoming the obstacles women face in obtaining and fully benefiting from their rights by highlighting selected communities and their civil institutions that advocate women's rights and helping women access these rights.

Main Activity:

Seminars, training courses, social mapping, art workshops, and educational lectures

Ongoing projects

• Project: Training female breadwinners and youth to sew
• Project: Creating job opportunities for young people

Past projects

• Health awareness and family planning programs. The association has held many awareness seminars about these topics.
• Women's training facility: Some women who have received enough training work there and have their products marketed through the marketing unit.
• Teaching housewives to make handicrafts and leather products and providing them with suitable job opportunities.
• New Horizons Project: The project targeted 868 beneficiaries who were trained in several fields (health awareness, family cultural awareness, and environmental awareness).
• The Arab Women Speak Out Program
• Youth employment project
  

Future projects

• A center for physiotherapy and for helping people with special needs
• Microcredit for youth and women
• Family planning project

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