Together for Environmental Development Foundation

Category: Local organization
Target groups:  Women, youth, farmers, female breadwinners and school students
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; environmental awareness
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2006

The Together for Environmental Development Foundation is a non-profit organization licensed under Code 19 in 2006 under the Ministry of Social Solidarity. It aims to provide support for disadvantaged Egyptian families, raise their economic standards, preserve a sustainable infrastructure for villages and slums, and offer state-of-the-art services and social security through the help of professionals and consultants to ensure the highest level of quality and the continuity of provided services.

Main Activity:

Providing job opportunities for young people and finding creative solutions to environmental problems

Ongoing projects

  • A project for developing and enhancing small and medium-sized businesses
  • The Sustainable Rural Sanitation Project, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Housing
  • The Micro-Credit Services Project
  • The Together for Environmental Development Project
  • The Challenging Unemployment Together Project
  • The funded Sustainable Agricultural Development Project
  • The Biogas Production Project

Past projects

  • A project for determining the essential needs of the most impoverished villages
  • The Better Future for Beni Suef Youth Project
  • The "Masr Ta3mel" Project
  • The Laborer Project
  • Project Growth and Development 
  • Improving school healthcare and the environment, in addition to focusing on young girls’ rights and gender issues and implementing a curriculum that addresses these issues through activities and “inspection bags"
  • Youth Inventions Project
  • Biogas Production Project 
  • Let’s Make a Better Future for Upper Egyptian Youth Together Project 
  • A project to enhance youth political engagement through encouraging their participation in local administrative councils 
  • The Together against Unemployment Project for training future employees (600 job opportunities for men and women)
  • The Sustainable Agricultural Development Project for the families of the Libya Massacre martyrs

Future projects

  • A project that aims to provide disadvantaged families with access to clean drinking water and sanitation services
  • Youth employment projects
  • A project that aims to establish a youth training and employment center