The pleasure of your company is requested at our benefit dinner to support the work of Hands Along the Nile in Egypt! Join us as we celebrate HANDS’ work through an evening of Egyptian music, a silent auction, and a special guest speaker. Location: Top of the Town (1440 14th Street North, Arlington, VA) Date: Thursday, September […]
Join Hands Along the Nile Development Services (HANDS) on Saturday, June 23, for a luncheon to celebrate the impact of connections forged between Chicago and Egypt. Come experience the food, music, culture and handicrafts of Egypt’s ancient but still flourishing civilization. You’ll also hear more about HANDS’ work in under-served communities along the Nile–and how […]
HANDS is pleased to announce our new online seminar “Understanding Contemporary Egypt,” which will explore Egypt through a variety of topics over the course of six weeks from October 2 to November 6. The seminar will bring together speakers from Egypt and the U.S to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing Egypt today. […]
CONTINUE READING →Fatma is an Egyptian businesswoman with high ambitions. Together with her four employees, who are also her sisters, she makes wedding dresses at her workshop. She has markets in Alexandria and in Cairo and advertises her dresses through social media. Her Facebook page has over eight-hundred likes! […]
CONTINUE READING →HANDS is pleased to announce another successful exchange in our annual American Egyptian Dialogue program. The distinguished leaders who were members of the Egyptian delegation included: Mr. El Sayed Mahmoud Ahmed Hussein Elsherif, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Head of the Ashraf Council Dr. Emad Gad Badras, Member of the House of […]
CONTINUE READING →The community of Manshayet Nasr, nestled on a hill inside Cairo, is home to over 500,000 residents, whose livelihood is earned mostly by collecting and sorting the city’s trash. This special group of Cairenes, known as zabaleen or “garbage people,” also manage to recycle over 80% of the trash they collect! One challenge of this business model is […]
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