The Orient House

Youth Development Department

Study Visit - Egypt

Association for the Protection of the Environment:

Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE) is working with the Garbage collectors society in Cairo, especially with the women and children sector among this community.
By offering the alternative non - formal education system to the girls, where they are provided with means to be educated through doing micro projects that could also help them financially, and thus convincing their families that its worth letting the girls getting educated, APE aims to build self confidence and self reliance in the girls and thus their families.
APE mainly aims to work on lots of social problems within this community; illiteracy, health, sexual, hygiene, etc. All of these problems are addressed through a non-formal model of an alternative "learning and earning" training center.
APE have also introduced within its departments a Paper Recycling Unit, Children's Club, Day Care and Nursery Unit… all of these units lies under the main "learning and earning" training, and all aims into improving the living conditions and cultural traditions of this community.

Prospective Cooperation:
As the APE is solely working with one community, it remains difficult to have any common projects together; yet, exchange of information could be helpful especially in the area of re-cycling and paper re-cycling.

Contact:
Ayman Moharram, Director
P.o.Box 32, Qal'a, Cairo
Tel: +202 5102723 Fax: +202 5100149
Email:ape1@idsc.gov.eg
Website: www.ape.org.eg

Institute for Training and Research in Family Planning - Alexandria:

The institute is a specialized training center and was created in 1972. Its specialized programs covers national, regional and international training needs.
The institute offers training in the following areas:
Training for Trainers, Population Dynamics, Information, Education & Communication, Family Life Education, Family Planning.

During our visit to the institute we have attended a training session done by the institute called "New Horizons Program".
This is a training program offered first to trainers who would be trained on how to deliver the education materials to young girls coming from rural villages in an alternative way, and easy to "deliver and receive" way, of raising awareness regarding many social and common traditional problems among these young girls.

Prospective Cooperation:
Working with the Institute could be through exchanging experiences in building capacity programs, and / or through working with women and girls in rural areas in Jerusalem.

Contacts:
Salha Awad
69, Ahmed Seoud Abu Ali Str.
Bulkely, Alexandria, Egypt
Tel: +202 850476 Fax: +202 5451375

Young Arab Theater:

This is a strictly Modern Arts organizations, where it is promoting modern arts and alternative art among the children coming from social difficult backgrounds, and also providing artistic point of view in the local community and in local public sites.
Young Arab Theater, aims to try and reach as much as of people through of its activities, where it aims to provide activities and fill the free times for the youth in order to avoid some social problems

Prospective Cooperation:
Through providing its contacts with local art groups…!

Godran Association, Alexandria:

A very active group of Youth, mainly artists and social workers, has gathered themselves to work in a neglected "fishing" community in Alexandria. They are currently working in a small fishing village in the Max district, west of the city of Alexandria.

Godran Association, which means Walls Association, have started to work on renovating artistically the buildings and houses of these fishermen, and then developed to work with the children of this community, by introducing artistic workshops, and illiteracy classes too.
Godran Association is working with the village's community leaders to identify and experiment with ways of incorporating artistic creativity in efforts aiming at improving the physical environment of the village. It is envisaged that this experiment will provide clear guidelines for a model community development project that has artistic creativity as one of its major elements.

Prospective Cooperation:
Through encouraging Godran Association in providing youth exchanges activities within their program, and the organization of voluntary workcamps and youth exchanges programs.

Contacts:
Sameh El Halawani
Mob.: 0101170800
E-mail: info@gudran.com

Bashayer Association - Helwan - Cairo:

Working with women in developing micro projects and thus helping them economically and socially. Bashayer have also managed to introduce some youth work recently, the youth project is managed by the youth themselves, and the priorities and the working methods are often discussed through workshops organized by the Youth.
Bashayer role is rather supportive and back up the work done by these volunteers.
In the youth project, different youth related issues are touched and dealt with, also voluntary campaigns with-in the local community is being held, and also working and lobbying for the local governmental bodies to work on different issues that affects the local community of Helwan - Cairo.
In principle, the youth chose and deal with the issues being introduced by this group.

Contacts:
Mrs. Zeinab Ali Abdel Latif, General Director
27 Tarik Ibn Zeyad St.
Helwan - Cairo - Egypt
Tel/Fax: +202 5542491

Save the Children - Menia: (Ishraq Project)

Another way of reaching out to girls coming from rural areas and facing economical and social difficulties, Save the Children through its Ishraq project, manages to train trainers to work with these young girls.
Through the cooperation with governmental and non-governmental organizations and also with local community bodies, Ishraq projects try to reach out to girls aged between 13-15 yeas old, their families and the local governmental and community leadership, in order to build better present for these girls, raising their awareness to the most social and traditional problems they are facing and hence paving the way for a better future and situation.

The broad program goal is to change the structure of opportunities for out-of-school girls and to transform the ways girls perceive themselves and the ways in which their communities view them. This will be achieved by 1) Increasing girls' mobility, skills, knowledge; 2) Enhancing girls' sense of self-efficacy/agency; 3) Promoting better informed public understanding and support for policy and institutional practice in support of girls; 4) Positively influencing existing norms concerning girls' life opportunities; and 5) Fostering greater understanding on the part of boys, parents, and community leaders of gender disparities and engage their support for girls' new roles.

Contact:
Mona Moneer
37 Al Kholafa's St.
Sultab Land, Minya
Tel: +202 086 366 869 Fax: +202 086 366 667
Email: mmoneer@savechildren.org.eg

Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (Zenhum Project):

Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) was established in the early 50's as a community fighting the illiteracy problems, and then was developed to out reach different social problems facing the Egyptian community.
Currently is working in random neighborhoods, that was the effect of evacuating demolished buildings and the accumulation of the South to North immigration, where CEOSS seeks to work on this very poor and neglected communities to build up their own associations that could help the local communities of these gatherings.
CEOSS, works with every community for 4 years, try their best to establish a well managed local organization, that would deliver services and social and financial help to the communities, and then leave the community with a well established organizations that can relay on different sources and themselves on continuing the work.

Contact:
Maged Hosny
Block 1331 Dr. Ahmed Zaki St., El Nozha El Gedida
P.O.Box 162 - 11811 - El Panorama, Cairo Egypt.
Tel: +020 2975901/2/3 Fax: +202 2959141

Youth Association for Population and Development (YAPD):

YAPD focuses on mobilizing youth to serve society through volunteer work. It is connected to a large network of youth throughout Egypt and has established three local offices in different regions of the country in addition to its central office in Cairo.
Its main efforts are directed towards surveying needs, conducting research and developing advocacy and training for Egyptian youth in a variety of fields such as women and children, leadership, education, health, rural-urban migration, environment and more recently Information Technology. In 1996, it conducted a from-youth-to-youth survey in four governorates to assess the needs and aspirations of students before and after their graduation.

YAPD is very active in voluntary work, being a voluntary based youth associations themselves, they are currently engaged in building a data base for all community organizations, stating their specializations and their needs, and then to try and mobilize volunteers for these organizations.
YAPD, is also very active in Youth trainings, and also in issuing Youth manuals that could address how to solve common problems faced by the youth and / or the community.

Prospective Cooperation:
Through the discussion, we saw that the aims and goals of YAPD matches firmly with YDD's goals and objectives, basis of cooperation could be on the training level, producing the youth manuals, voluntary work, exchange of the data base, and the networking model that they are producing too.

Contact:
Hisham Roubi
E-mail: cds.su3@neareast.org

The Community Youth Development (CYD):

A group of youth workers in Egypt - The Community Youth Development (CYD) group - have been meeting regularly to develop a structure for a youth network. The long-term vision for the network of youth organizations is to improve the quality and types of opportunities for young people, to build their identity and abilities to work - in partnership with adults - for the successful development of themselves, their peers, their families and communities. The CYD group brings together seven young persons, involved in youth work, who volunteered to develop strategies to reinforce the network between youth-led and/or youth-centered organizations.

Prospective Cooperation:
As a networking body in Jerusalem, the future cooperation with CYD could be very useful, yet currently up until the idea of CYD get more developed, YDD will try to, as per the request of CYD, to exchange the experience that it got in the networking field.

Contact:
Salma Biblawi
E-mail: S.BEBLAWI@FORDFOUND.ORG

For More Information Contact:

Orient House
Youth Development Department
P.O. Box 20479
Palestine-Jerusalem
E-mail: ydd@orienthouse.org