| Country: |
Egypt |
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Organization: |
Save the Children USA |
| Address: |
10 Itihad El Mohameen El Arab, Garden City
Cairo, Egypt. |
| Tel: |
(20-2) 796-3510 |
| Fax: |
(20-2) 795-6343 |
| E-mail: |
dmofty@savehildren.org.eg |
| Coverage: |
Cairo, El Minya, Giza, Quena, and Sohaq Governates. |
| Objectives: |
1. Empowering girls and young women through a variety of educational and leadership programs;
2. Promoting a family and a school environment that ensures gender equity and female empowerment;
3. Improving reproductive health and family planning services for adolescent girls;
Increasing young women’s access to education and economic opportunities. |
| Approach: |
Raising awareness; advocacy; training; financial aid; development programs; gender specific approach. |
| Intervention Sectors: |
Education: Vocational training; literacy programs; ICT literacy; school drop-outs; non traditional fields.
Employment: Micro credit schemes; income generating projects.
Health: Family planning; nutrition education; sexual & reproductive health; prenatal health.
Social integration: Special programs & services; participation & rights of vulnerable young women. |
| Project: |
“ISHRAQ”, safe spaces for girls to learn, play and grow. |
| Objectives: |
1. Testing the possibility of using recreational activities, including sports, as an entry point to introduce other activities, e.g. reproductive health;
2. Enhancing the physical, mental, and social well being of adolescent girls;
3. Creating a good level of interaction between girls to discover their needs and respond to them;
4. Creating an environment where girls are comfortable to enquire about things and express themselves;
Conveying to the community the message that those girls have a great potential, which could be done through recreational activities. |
| Brief: |
The project focuses on:
1. Exploring ways of working with adolescents in schools in Minya, starting with three intermediate schools;
2. Planning to organize activities with adolescents in the issues of health and the environment. These activities will also be the output of what these girls learn and present to the community;
3. Designing a sports program for adolescent girls based on their athletic inclination;
4. Workshops for government and local leadership is underway in order to define needs and create. participation mechanisms. |
| Duration: |
2001-2004 |
| Location: |
Egypt Minya villages. |
| Target Group: |
Adolescent girls (13-18) years old. |
| Challenges: |
1. The project is a new concept which makes the implementation more challenging;
2. Working with this target group is also very challenging as they are at a sensitive age. |
| Funding: |
The Summit Foundation. |
| Results: |
Through the use of questionnaires, Save the Children was able to obtain a collection of data on needs assessment for girls. |
