Join Hands Along the Nile and tennis instructor Joseph Awadalla for an afternoon of tennis games at McLean Sport and Health. You’ll enjoy light-hearted tennis competitions in teams as well as food and music to celebrate the new year. Please bring your own tennis racket with you. Tennis court time will be divided into […]
Join HANDS in the DMV area for the chance to purchase handicrafts created by women in Egypt! We will be hosting a craft sale of products made by artisans from the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE). This is a job skills and educational program for women living and working in the garbage […]
Did you know that in Egypt, nearly two thirds of young Egyptians between the age of 15 and 30 are jobless, neither in school nor employed? Mina, a 19-year-old from Abu Korkas village in the Minya governorate, used to be one of them. But Mina’s life has changed since he came to a HANDS-sponsored job-skills […]
CONTINUE READING →Shereen, a 35-year-old mother of four from the Minya governorate, is a proud landowner. She recently purchased her property using earnings from her clothing store. A few years ago, Shereen was not the same woman who runs a village fashion enterprise and serves as the sole breadwinner for her family of six. Shereen used to […]
CONTINUE READING →In the Moquattam area of Cairo, more than 50,000 zabbaleen, an Arabic word for garbage collectors, survive on sorting and recycling trash from the city. Unfortunately, a lot of children in this community have to drop out of school in order to help their parents collect and sort garbage. In this community, many girls have limited […]
CONTINUE READING →Widowed women in Egypt’s villages can face immense challenges in supporting themselves and their families. For some of them, the death of their husband is the first time they have tried to enter the job market. With little education and no formal work experience, the situation can feel hopeless. Mervat, a 48-year-old woman from Upper […]
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