Ensan Aid Foundation

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, children, and youth
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2014
Ensan Aid aims to empower women through various programs and projects, such as the following:
  • A project that encourages female business leadership and helps women start small businesses through micro-credit programs.
  • The Enmaa Program helps provide women, especially breadwinners, with a dignified life through providing them with proper housing. A subproject called Participate for a Better Life empowers women to participate in and establish initiatives that cater to their community. It also aims to economically empower women through the establishment of small businesses.
  • The Ataa (Giving) Project provides disadvantaged women with medical treatment and raises healthcare awareness in disadvantaged villages.
  • Economic empowerment through the establishment of small businesses for disadvantaged female breadwinners
  • A project that promotes world peace and coexistence and which emphasizes the role of women in spreading peace and coexistence.
  • The Dear Daughter Project encourages young girls to go to school and develops the skills of female college students. There are also female leadership projects that aim to empower female business owners and provide female villagers with job opportunities.

Main Activity:

Small businesses, seminars, workshops, and handicraft workshops

Ongoing projects

  • "Enmaa" program, in collaboration with the Swiss Wekalet el-Modon
  • The Dear Daughter Project, in collaboration with the Coptic Orphans Organization
  • A female leadership project, in collaboration with Plan International Organization Give: A Project, funded by the president of the board of trustees
  • For World Peace and Coexistence Project, in collaboration with Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) Organization

Past projects

Female Business Leadership Project (funded by the president of the board of trustees) [ongoing project]

Future projects

  • Empowering young women and men to lead businesses and participate in society
  • Life without Pain Project, which aims to fight against child marriage in Upper Egypt