Societal Development Organization for Social Services in Hamidat

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, families, orphans, people with disabilities, female breadwinners, and families of convicts
Main field: Social, economic, and political empowerment; health awareness
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2006
The organization works in several development-related fields and services, such as mother and child care; women's empowerment; improving the living conditions of disadvantaged families, orphans, and people with disabilities; and providing care for patients, families of convicts, and people with debt.


Main Activity:

Training courses and awareness seminars

Ongoing projects

  • Developmental projects for rural women, funded by the Social Development Fund
  • Family income development projects, funded by the National Association for Productive Families
  • A Productive Society Project: a project that aims to develop the income of disadvantaged families

Past projects

  • Issuing National IDs, in cooperation with the National Council for Women
  • Developmental projects to develop family income
  • Lifting the burden of debt off women, in collaboration with Misr el-Kheir Foundation
  • Helping orphans get married
  • Medical convoys
  • Household maintenance, such as building ceilings and installing plumbing
  • Decreasing school dropout rates
  • Adult literacy programs
  • Handicraft workshops for girls, such as sewing and tatting courses

Future projects

Development projects for women, such as handicraft, agricultural, industrial, or commercial projects