The Egyptian Association for Development and Training in Luxor

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: youth of both genders
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2010
The association specializes in development, training, and consultation. It is able to efficiently manage its resources, and it contributes to society, respects the dignity of human beings, and encourages social development in all developmental fields.


Main Activity:

Activities; awareness raising and educational seminars

Ongoing projects

  • Microcredit program for female empowerment
  • ToT program for 50 girls
  • Teacher training course for kindergarten teachers

Past projects

  • Project: Luxor Girls. The project targeted 60 girls and aimed to create employment opportunities for them by training them in crafts and handicrafts. The finished products were marketed in exhibitions and surplus profit was given to the girls.
  • Initiative: Ibnati el-Ghaleya (My Dear Daughter). This initiative targeted 60 girls in primary and secondary school. It was funded by Coptic Orphans, and it aimed to improve adolescent girls' education using the child-to-child approach. Each secondary schoolgirl was assigned to a primary schoolgirl to help her study.
  • Program: Microcredit and economic empowerment for women
  • Program: Empowering local youth to seek employment. It trained 75 girls and helped them seek employment in various fields, such as sewing and kindergarten education.

Future projects

Draw Your Future Project. The project aims to socially and economically empower women through a life skills and entrepreneurship program targeting 100 young women who are of working and marriageable age.