Category: Local Organization Target groups: Children, youth, female breadwinners, and the elderly Main field: Economic empowerment; health and enviromental awareness Setting: Urban and rural Year founded: 1993
This organization provides local community development services through a group of developmental projects and through connecting government entities with the private sector. It comprises cultural, scientific, religious, and healthcare services, as well as awareness programs on the environment and maintaining resources, providing support for families, motherhood and children, economic empowerment, income development, social aid, and caring for people with special needs.
Main Activity:
Projects and seminars
Ongoing projects
Project: daycare center
Project: rural and agricultural development
Project: supporting reproductive health services
Income development program
A training center to teach productive families how to use computers and the internet
Past projects
Economic empowerment for women through different loan categories to finance income-generating projects. There are four microcredit projects financed by the Social Fund for Development. There is also an income development project for women in the irregular labor sector, in collaboration with CARE Egypt.
Future projects
Integrating people with disabilities into society, developing their latent skills, and investing these skills in the developmental process by establishing an organization and training center to support people with disabilities, especially women.