Feminist Organization for Health Improvement in SohagFeminist Organization for Health Improvement in Sohag

This feminist organization aims to improve health and societal progress through providing a better life for women. This can be achieved through a myriad of activities, including establishing a day care center, an inclusive school for people with special needs, a day care center for children with disabilities, an orphanage, and air-conditioned training spaces.

Main Activity:

Ongoing projects

• Emphasizing the role of the non-government sector in providing family planning services to raise reproductive health awareness and teach life skills, such as how to write a resume
• Economic empowerment for girls, the project aims to grant them professional qualifications then give grants to girls who excel at the training courses in order to help them start small businesses afterward
• Microcredit programs for female breadwinners

Past projects

• Reproductive health project
• We Can Share project (economic empowerment for girls, including handicrafts, computer courses, self-improvement courses, and feasibility studies
• Improving university education opportunities (justice and equity) for young women who wanted to pursue a college degree. The project provided safe transportation for girls who lived on campus and accomodation was provided for by the university.
• Eshraq Project, which helped girls who dropped out of school, provided adult literacy classes and life skill development, and educational awareness courses for the brothers and fathers of girls
• Reducing the prevalence of poverty project, which aimed to help women obtain official documents (e.g., national IDs, registering unregistered individuals, birth certificates)
• Micro-credit programs for female breadwinners

Future projects

• Reproductive health projects
• Issuing official documents for women in villages

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