Improving the Lives of Women and Children Association

Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women and children
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2002
With 9 branches in several governorates, this organization covers all educational and health aspects and has created economic and social projects to develop local communities, whether through environmental innovation or family and child care.


Main Activity:

Awareness campaigns, microcredit programs, and training courses

Ongoing projects

  • Microcredit programs for women to help improve the living standards of families 
  • Training courses for mothers, such as handicraft workshops, life skills courses, and project management
  • Skill development for nurses working in the private sector
  • Involving men and children in combating violence against women
  • Empowering and protecting boys and girls' reproductive health, as well as raising awareness on early marriage and FGM
  • Development of school standards, educational environments, and infrastructure
  • Educated Village project: a group of villages are selected and schools are then established in these villages education schools to be established. ToT training is also offered, as well as literacy classes for parents 
  • Children's right to education, with handicraft training courses for mothers and protection committee training sessions
  • Distributing nutritious meals among local school students
  • Youth for Work, a project that offers life skills training courses to youth and grants them non-refundable grants, with which to start their own businesses after the end of the course

Past projects

  • Fighting child labor through education, withdrawing children from the workforce, and re-enrolling them into local schools
  • Reproductive health
  • Anti-violence against children, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood
  • Reducing the prevalence of poverty to issue national IDs for women and children
  • Microcredit programs for women to raise familial living standards
  • Training courses for mothers, such as handicraft, life skills and project management courses
  • Employing young women, education women on mother and child health, and hiring a healthcare professional to deliver messages to mothers
  • Empowering mothers and daughters through networking and secondary protection committees
  • Community initiatives for a better life through awareness of good nutrition (for pregnant women), gender awareness, and female empowerment

Future projects

  • Support Children's Rights in Upper Egypt Project
  • Community Development Initiative