Egyptians without Borders Organization for Development

The organization works to design and implement projects and programs that develop the educational system, develop human skills, and empower marginalized groups (women, youth, and children) in order to help them obtain better opportunities, bridge the gender gap between men and women through the adoption of gender programs, promote private sector partnership programs and activities, organize legal development and support programs, implement environmental and service projects, and prepare educational, legal, and social studies and research.

Main Activity:

Training courses, studies, and research

Ongoing projects

The Secret of the Earth Project: The project is a multi-component project (agricultural, industrial, and commercial) that offers a new model of the opportunities associated with the village institutions, and it depends on linking all the resources available in them. The project strives to empower young women and men and older women in the two villages to open new markets related to the first crop cultivation industries in Aswan (dates), which include packaging and manufacturing, handicrafts, and recycling agricultural waste. The long-term goal of the project is to empower participating groups to contribute to the economic and social change of the targeted villages by providing training opportunities that will help them expand their knowledge and skills, so that they are able to enter the job market and find jobs that suit their newly-acquired skills.

Past projects

• Women on the Road Project: A project for political empowerment that aimed to enable participants to reach good positions in political parties and municipalities in Aswan by building participants' abilities through a series of specialized training and preparation programs to improve their electoral and party performance during the project.
• The first step project aimed to enable 50 women to win seats in decision-making centers in their civil institutions (associations, youth centers, unions, and parties) in Aswan. It also aimed to reduce the exclusion of women from real participation in political circles through a strategy based on training, involving the media as a key partner, and enabling individuals to join institutional entities to promote the roles of women activists.
• The Big Story Project: This project aimed to develop educational policies through a national campaign that was directed at stakeholders, parliament members, and the private sector to conduct interventions related to changing the course of the educational system.
• Citizenship: A regional Arab project funded by the Foundation of the Future, which aimed to support and instill the importance of human rights in preparatory school students through a competitive environment that involved the participating countries in the region.
• Supporting the political participation of women with the support of Al-Hayah Afdal Association in Minia
• The Yes She Can Initiative: The initiative aimed to support women and their role in the fight against corruption.

Future projects

• Workshops that will teach women to make handmade carpets
• The establishment of a permanent center and exhibition for the conservation and marketing of environmental handicrafts while also introducing a modern touch to these handicrafts. This will improve the chances of these products being marketed. Improving the quality of these handicrafts may also open up opportunities for export abroad. 

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