The Future Pioneers for Economic Development Association

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, men, children, and all segments of society
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; environmental awareness
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2001
This non-profit association works on developing local communities. It works in several fields, such as empowering rural women, raising the economic standards of young farmers, and gender—through empowering women politically and economically and empowering youth regardless of gender.


Main Activity:

Initiatives; training and technical workshops; technical and legal services

Ongoing projects

  • Day care center
  • Revolving loans
  • Economic and social development
  • Building food security systems
  • "Climate change" project
  • Recycling agricultural waste

Past projects

  • Initiative: Empowering women politically, in cooperation with CARE International
  • Supporting girls to start intiatives that combat violence against women, in cooperation with CARE International
  • Leadership through sports
  • Supporting women in the job market, integrating gender into the association's board of directors, and supporting women's right to seek work. In cooperation with the Ensan Project
  • Empowering women economically through small income-generating projects
  • Empowering women economically through the GRASP Egypt "ACF" Project, which is a culinary education intiative - integrated reproductive health services - combating violence against women with the National Council for Women - youth forum - voices of Egyptian youth - the local partnership for accountability - raising the economic standard of small farmers

Future projects

  • Providing assistance and legal support for Egyptian women
  • Raising women's awareness of their rights and duties and helping them solve their problems
  • Supporting women in the coming municipality elections
  • Preparing youth leaders
  • Exporting crops
  • Raising awareness of reproductive health at schools
  • Issuing national ID cards and pensions for people with disabilities