Please save the date for a benefit dinner to support Hands Along the Nile’s work in Egypt! Date and time The Evening of Thursday, October 13 Location Top of the Town; Arlington, VA
Join us at our Alexandria, VA office for an Egyptian handicraft holiday sale! We will have a beautiful selection of quilts, bags, notecards and more. Each product is made by artisans at the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE), a job skills and educational program for women living and working in the garbage collector’s […]
We hope you are planning to join us for our DC-Area Fall Benefit Dinner. Thursday, October 13, 2016 6 – 9 p.m. at Top of the Town 1400 14th Street North Arlington, VA 22209 In addition to enjoying one of the best views of DC, our guests will take home Egyptian handicrafts they win in our silent […]
CONTINUE READING →HANDS is pleased to announce that the application is now open for the Professional Fellows Program between Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and the US through December 15, 2016! The new round of Professional Fellows Program focuses on NGO Development for Organizations Improving the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational […]
CONTINUE READING →Upon graduating from college, Christine faced a challenge that is all too common among youth in Egypt: unemployment. Recent years of turbulent transition in the region have resulted in a staggering 67% youth unemployment rate. Further, while the Egyptian economy has the means to produce high-tech goods and services, there lacks a workforce with the requisite […]
CONTINUE READING →Mohamed El Shami is 24 years old and lives with his family in a two-bedroom apartment in a crowded Cairo neighborhood. Although Mohamed had attained a bachelor’s degree in 2011, he was unable to find a job after graduating. Mohamed’s dilemma was not uncommon; in Egypt, two-thirds of young people between the ages of 15 […]
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