Rural Women Development Organization in Kom al-Ahmar

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, youth, men, and female breadwinners
Main field: Social, economic, and legal empowerment; health awareness
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 1996
The organization empowers women through awareness campaigns, training courses, small businesses, community schools, and by providing support.


Main Activity:

Seminars, awareness campaigns, handicrafts, and art workshops

Ongoing projects

  • Micro-credit project
  • Providing job opportunities for young women
  • Community schools
  • Nurseries
  • Female empowerment center

Past projects

  • Economic empowerment projects (microcredit programs, We Can Share, and job opportunities for girls)
  • Health empowerment (mother and child care, protecting kids from harmful practices, employing young women in initiatives that offer mother and child health, anti-FGM, and health care and legal awareness for women)

Future projects

  • Protecting children from harmful practices
  • Micro-credit programs
  • Handicraft training courses for women