Rural Women Development Organization in Ayaysha

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, men, youth, children, and people with special needs
Main field: Social economic and legal empowerment; health awareness
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2005
A community-based organization which aims to develop local communities through successful project planning to raise the social and economic standards of marginalized groups. It aims to offer job opportunities to youth to reduce the prevalence of unemployment. It also aspires to economically and socially empower women through eliminating violence against them and helping them receive their rights. It also offers care and support to the following groups: mothers and children and people with disabilities. It also aims to protect the environment and the consumer. Some of the organization's projects focus on gender-specific issues, presented through seminars, while others fight for the rights of people with special needs.


Main Activity:

Seminars, workshops, legal support for women, and field studies

Ongoing projects

  • Life and Values Project, funded by Plan International Qena office
  • Training center for training groups to work in the training field
  • Training workshop for young women 
  • Quran memorization center
  • Awareness seminars on Nile pollution
  • Issuing national IDs for women, in cooperation with the National Women Council
  • Reducing poverty, in collaboration with Mohamed Mahmoud Charity Organization in Qaws

Past projects

  • "Social Initiatives for a Better Life" project, which aims to improve women's health, especially pregnant women and children, using gender-based methodologies regarding nutrition. The project was financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Employing young women in women's and children's health care initiatives, funded by the Social Fund for Development
  • Setting up nurseries for children ages 3–6 - Local collaboration for social accountability
  • Rehabilitation for people with disabilities
  • Issuing national IDs for women
  • Political awareness, in collaboration with Al-Mashreq Organization in Minya
  • Avian Flu awareness seminars at the veterinary administration in Qena

Future projects

  • My Little Dream Project, which aims to teach women to sew, funded by the Kuwaiti Fund
  • Khatwa Project: the project aims to economically empower women in rural societies - The Dear Daughter Project, which aims to raise educational standards for girls, funded by the Coptic Orphans Organization
  • Economic empowerment for female small business owners