Recently, HANDS managed to catch a brief interview with our very busy Professional Fellows Program alumni Jaouad Benaicha. In addition to his day job of working to establish a hostel in his hometown of Oujda, Morocco, Jaouad is the General Secretary of the Oriental Region Youth Hostel Association, Project Manager for the Integration of […]
CONTINUE READINGSOY students completing an assignment on computers Mina Rashed is nineteen years old and has been living in Manshiyat Naser, a garbage collection community in Cairo, since he was a little boy. In these communities, families survive by collecting, sorting and recycling about 80 percent of the city’s waste. Like many others his age, Mina […]
CONTINUE READINGHepatitis C is a major global health problem, and it is estimated that more than 80 million people are chronically affected worldwide, with 3-4 million new infections and 350,000 deaths each year because of hepatitis C health-related complications. Egypt has the highest hepatitis C prevalence in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that one […]
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