The Egyptian Association for Human Development in Sohag

Category: Local Organization
Target groups:  Women, children, and youth
Main field: Social and economic empowerment
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2003
The association aims to advance society and works with people for the people. It strives to improve the quality of living and take a stand regarding major issues pertaining to children, women, and youth. It also provides capacity building on an organizational and community level, with respect to policies and methodology.

 

Main Activity:

Training courses, seminars, and research

Ongoing projects

  • Guesthouse for cancer patients and their families (self-funded)
  • Orphan adoption "Kafala" (self-funded)
  • Supporting community education, funded by Misr el-Kheir Foundation
  • Let's Protect Children, funded by Save the Children - Egypt
  • Institutional capacity-building project for local organizations, funded by Plan International
  • "Bader", an economic and social development project financed by Plan International
  • Thank You for Learning project, funded by the Food Bank
  • Burn Awareness program, funded by the Assiut Burn Center
  • Employ Me, Thank You, funded by the Egyptian Foundation for Family Development

Past projects

  • Women's right to inheritance project
  • "Better Choices" project for girls from Upper Egypt
  • Empowerment of women and girls
  • Project for the employment of girls in maternal and child health initiatives
  • "Forsa" project
  • Youth empowerment project
  • Improving the income of rural women and female breadwinners (150 families and women)
  • Safety project
  • Women's social and economic empowerment project
  • Economic development project for women and the family
  • Legal empowerment project for women and family courts
  • Legal empowerment of children in conflict with the law

Future projects

Guesthouse for cancer patients and their families