Community Development Organization in Hala Qaws

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: All segments of society (children, women, and men)
Main field: Social, economic, and political empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 1981
The organization aims to provide a dignified life for families in Qena and help them exercise their legal, economic, educational, environmental, and cultural rights and their right to health care through restructuring society and governmental/non-governmental organizations, which serve society on the basis of equality and justice for all.


Main Activity:

Awareness seminars, micro-credit programs, daycare centers, providing access to water, and medical services

Ongoing projects

Transform Your Disability into Energy: a project that aims to economically empower women and reintegrate 110 young women into the the job market.

Past projects

  • Issuing supporting documents for women in collaboration with the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood on governorate-level (Qena and Luxor)
  • Political Empowerment with CARE Egypt
  • Anti-violence and female genital mutilation project with UNICEF

Future projects

Political participation project for female empowerment