Badr el-Tawayel Organization

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women, workers, and female agricultural workers and their children
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 1979
Badr el-Tawayel works on local community development, targeting all social groups, especially women, workers, and female agricultural workers and their children. It helps them work toward better lives and educates them about their rights and how to claim these rights, influence policymaking and decision-making, change laws, and adopt participatory collaboration and transparency to achieve sustainable development.


Main Activity:

Microcredit for small businesses, awareness campaigns, and health and education support

Ongoing projects

  • "Inheritance: My Right" project
  • The Right to Live project (training sessions and employment)

Past projects

  • Positive Participation project, in cooperation with CARE Egypt
  • Women's civic rights  project, in cooperation with the Special Needs Association
  • Agricultural workers insurance, in cooperation with CARE Egypt
  • Development of reproductive health services 
  • Microcredit programs to help generate income 
  • Women and civic rights in cooperation with the Canadian Agency (PDP)                 
  • Reduction of poverty prevalence, in cooperation with the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood
  • Supporting women's rights project, in cooperation with GTZ
  • Legal empowerment of women project, in cooperation with the Centre of Egyptian Women
  • Anti-child labor in Egypt project, in cooperation with the World Food Programme