The Association for the Development of Women and Families in Southern Rizeigat

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, youth, and marginalized segments of society
Main field: Social, economic, and political empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: rural
Year founded: 2005
The Association for the Development of Women and Families is an NGO that aims to cater to all segments of society. It also aims to comprehensively develop local communities economically, health-wise, culturally, educationally, and politically. Some of the association's projects include building day care centers, clubs, and parks for children; ensuring the welfare of special needs children; and providing services for youth, such as computer and language courses. The association also provides environmental services and family planning services; holds seminars for women to help them understand their civil rights; organizes cultural, social, and technological clubs; offers assistance to low-income families and foster care to orphans; and develops the incomes of women and empowers them.


Main Activity:

Building day care centers; computer classes for youth; technology club; literacy classes

Ongoing projects

Afaq Project for Economic Development, in cooperation with the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development.The project aims to create 305 job opportunities for youth, women, and people with special needs.

Past projects

  • Project: Supporting good governance mechanisms, in cooperation with CARE International. The project aimed to empower women and youth politically, and it led to the running of a board of directors member (a woman) in the municipality elections, and she won a seat in the local council. Eight hundred women were also assisted in applying for and receiving national IDs and election cards. 
  • Project: Integrated reproductive health services.The project aimed to empower women who were of child-bearing age and to help them receive high quality health care services from health units in villages.
    Project: Empowering women from Qena, in cooperation with USAID. The project aimed to empower women and help them receive their rights within the household. It also worked on dispelling age-old societal misconceptions of women.
  • Project: Economically empowering Egyptian women by supplying them with rabbits to raise and sell.
  • Initiative: To raise awareness and adopt legal approaches that aim to encourage communities to ask for their legal rights and their right to clean water. The initiative put pressure on the water company to supply villagers with clean water.
  • Initiative: Lacoste in cooperation with Cefix Walt E. aimed to empower girls by providing them with safe spaces at youth centers.
  • Project: Improving preschool education. The project aimed to provide a suitable learning environment for marginalized children aged 4 to 6 years old. The project was held in cooperation with The Key of Life Association and Canadian Aid.

Future projects

Bader Project for Economic Development in cooperation with the Arab Network for Development (Raed) and the Anti-Hunger Organization. The project aims to enable girls and women to find jobs that provide them with a decent living.