The Association for the Development and Empowerment of Rural Women

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, children, families, and youth
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; health and environmental awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2004
The association works on economic and societal development. It also works on empowering women both economically and socially.


Main Activity:

Seminars; youth meetings; workshops; awareness classes; life skills classes

Ongoing projects

  • Project: Improving the health of villagers and environmental conditions of the village
  • Day care center (Birds of Paradise nursery)
  • Women's club
  • Pioneering handicrafts project
  • Listening center for women

Past projects

  • Project: Improving the health of the villagers and the environmental condition of the village
  • Project: Integrated reproductive health services
  • Project: Poverty reduction - The legal rights of children and girls
  • Project: Egyptian decentralization initiative 
  • Protocol of cooperation between the General Authority for Teaching Adults and the association
  • Project: Empowering women from Qena
  • Day care center (Birds of Paradise Nursery)
  • Women's club
  • Protocol of cooperation between the Youth Association for Population & Development in Qena and the association
  • Project: Raising youth awareness of reproductive health and life skills
  • Project: Youth employment initiatives in rural and urban areas

Future projects

  • Project lending unit
  • Vocational center for young men and women