Ana Masry Organization for Training and Development in Qena

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, youth, and children
Main field: Social, economic, and legal empowerment; environmental awareness
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2010
The organization supports internal funding activities, such as skill development for local organizations, skill development for youth, and women's programs and external financing programs, such as the Dear Daughter Project; Our Jobs, Our Future Project; financing productive families; A Productive Society Project; and the Through Hope and Work Project for youth.


Main Activity:

Workshops and annual festivals

Ongoing projects

  • Our Future Is in Our Jobs Project: the project aims to train and prepare 300 young women and men to enter the job market, funded by the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development
  • Through Hope and Work Project for youth, funded by Plan International Egypt
  • "Bader" Project: the project aims to train 160 young women and men to work in agricultural development
  • Supporting and funding productive families project: the project aims to provide women with microcredit loans, funded by the National Foundation for Family and Community Development
  • Productive Society Project: the project aims to provide women with microcredit loans, funded by the Egyptian Foundation for Small and Medium-sized Businesses
  • Dear Daughter Project: the project aims to encourage young girls to make positive changes in their communities, funded by the Coptic Orphans Organization

Past projects

  • Rebat Initiative, in collaboration with the Horus Organization. The initiative aimed to reduce the prevalence of early divorce.
  • Women's Legal Support Office, in collaboration with the Women's Issues Center. It aimed to provide social and legal support and counselling through a group of volunteering lawyers. These lawyers filed lawsuits free of charge and established an intermediary committee to absolve conflicts before resorting to lawsuits.
  • A project that encouraged young people to plant trees and beautify their hometowns. It was financed by the Social Solidarity Fund and provided job opportunities for youth.
  • A project for supporting and funding productive families. This project enrolled women in micro-credit programs as a means of economically empowering them.

Future projects

Internally funded projects (forming T.O.T. groups from both genders)
Externally funded projects:
  • Micro-credit program from the National Foundation for Family and Community Development
  • Micro-credit program from the Egyptian Foundation for Small and Medium-sized Businesses
  • Micro-credit program from the Social Fund for Development
  • Project from Plan International (Qena office)