At the beginning of January, Hands Along the Nile brought six American professionals to Tunisia as part of a series of exchanges between the Middle East and the United States. Jack Creagh of Chicago’s Anixter Center, Gloria Blackwell of Washington DC’s American Association of University Women (AAUW), and Erin Kelley of Washington DC’s National Women’s […]
CONTINUE READINGThis January, six American professionals in the fields of economic empowerment of women and people with disabilities traveled to Tunisia as part of a Professional Fellows Program Exchange, organized by HANDS. The American professionals each represented an organization that had hosted one of ten Tunisian program fellows last year. This two- year exchange program is […]
CONTINUE READINGHANDS proudly sponsored a group of 15 professional fellows recently, who came to America from Egypt and Tunisia to learn about women’s economic empowerment over the course of a month-long exchange. The participants chosen for this program were young leaders in the field of women’s economic empowerment. Nermine, one of our professional fellows, works as […]
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 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 […]
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