HANDS Hosts a Benefit Dinner in Washington, DC On October 16th, HANDS hosted a benefit dinner at The Mansion at Meridian Hill in Washington, D.C. to raise funds for our projects in Egypt. This was the second such event; the first was hosted in New York City last fall. This year, HANDS was pleased […]
CONTINUE READINGHANDS recently hosted a group of Egyptian and Tunisian professionals in the field of disability rights for a month in Chicago with the help of our Chicago partner organization WorldChicago. The day before this group of eleven fellows departed, we had the opportunity to interview one of them, an Egyptian entrepreneur named Noha El-Sehrawy, about her […]
CONTINUE READINGEvery day, Hannan bends conscientiously over her loom, weaving colorful rugs and tote bags from the pile of colored cloth scraps at her side. As she finishes a piece, she trudges four blocks through the dusty streets of the urban squatter settlement where she lives to sell it to one of HANDS’ local partner organizations […]
CONTINUE READINGEvery day, Hannan conscientiously bends over her loom, weaving colorful rugs and tote bags from the pile of cloth scraps at her side. As she finishes a piece, she trudges four blocks through the dusty streets of the urban squatter settlement where she lives to sell it to one of HANDS’ local partner organizations in […]
CONTINUE READINGThis month, HANDS welcomed a group of young Egyptian and Tunisian professionals to Chicago as a part of our Professional Fellows Program (PFP). The program, funded by the U.S. Department of State and other generous HANDS donors, aims to develop the skills of emerging leaders in the Arab world. The current group works on the […]
CONTINUE READINGHANDS’ packing lists for Americans traveling to Egypt always includes “a sense of humor.” Greg Polman packed plenty of it for his trip to Cairo with HANDS past February. During their travels around Cairo, Greg–who is visually impaired–and the HANDS team, disembarked from and returned to the bus several times each day. Though he started the […]
CONTINUE READINGFaris is a 44-year-old Egyptian who lives in the outskirts of Cairo in a community of garbage collectors known as Zabaleen. For many years, Faris and his sons, like many other Zabaleen families, navigated the streets of Cairo, collecting garbage from apartment buildings on their assigned route. After the refuse was loaded in their donkey cart […]
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