Mohamed El Shami is 24 years old and lives with his family in a two-bedroom apartment in a crowded Cairo neighborhood. Although Mohamed had attained a bachelor’s degree in 2011, he was unable to find a job after graduating. Mohamed’s dilemma was not uncommon; in Egypt, two-thirds of young people between the ages of 15 […]
CONTINUE READINGHANDS recently hosted ten young men and women from Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia who work in non-governmental organizations that promote disability rights. These professionals participated in month-long fellowships at disability-focused organizations in Seattle, WA and Chicago, IL through the Professional Fellows Program. This program is funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational […]
CONTINUE READINGLaptops for Zabaleen Youth Families in the Zabaleen community, Cairo’s garbage collector group, survive by collecting, sorting and recycling up to 90 percent of Cairo’s trash by hand. As children actively participate in this vocation, most of them drop out of school in order to work full time. This virtually guarantees that they will remain in […]
CONTINUE READINGYoung Entrepreneurs – Training in the Present for Opportunity in the Future HANDS and our local partner organization recently held another round of business training for members of the Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP). In late March, HANDS staff traveled to Egypt to work with our local partner organization on connecting our cadre of young Egyptian […]
CONTINUE READINGSaeid’s Poverty Trap Saeid encountered a financial challenge last year that many of his fellow rural entrepreneurs know too well. While setting up his annual budget for his school supply shop, Saeid realized that the amount of expendable income he had was not enough to cover his clients’ requests. This lack of access to […]
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