Social Services and Development in Garagos

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.