Join us at our Alexandria, VA office for an Egyptian handicraft holiday sale! We will have a beautiful selection of quilts, bags, notecards and more. Each product is made by artisans at the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE), a job skills and educational program for women living and working in the garbage collector’s […]
Join us for our very first Egyptian Benefit Craft Sale in North Carolina! Come browse our beautiful selection of quilts, bags, notecards and more. Each product is made by artisans at the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE), a job skills and educational program for women living and working in the garbage collector’s community […]
Please save the date for a benefit dinner to support Hands Along the Nile’s work in Egypt! Date and time The Evening of Thursday, October 13 Location Top of the Town; Arlington, VA
HANDS will be hosting a reception in Chicago on Saturday, June 25. The reception will take place at The University Club in the heart of the city and will feature guest speaker His Excellency Ambassador Mohamed Abu Aldahab, the Consul General of Egypt in Chicago. Contact HANDS at events@handsalongthenile.org for more information. Location The University […]
HANDS will be hosting a reception to welcome to the Philadelphia area the Rev. Dr. Andrea Zaki, President of the Protestant Church of Egypt, Board Member of Hands Along the Nile, & Director General of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services and to hear about the social situation in Egypt. Contact HANDS at events@handsalongthenile.org […]
We hope you will join us for our upcoming Egyptian handicraft sale. Our friends living in the Moqattam hills above Cairo’s Citadel are hopeful for a better future. However, two important schools that are tools to development are in danger of closing their doors. These women and young children in the Moqattam community live in […]
In serving Egypt’s most vulnerable, one of HANDS’ partner organizations, the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS), has secured its place as one of Egypt’s most prominent civil society organizations. CEOSS’s ethic of dynamic citizenship comes out of the Christian commitment to the poor and vulnerable in concert with an innovative approach to engagement […]
Join HANDS at our annual holiday craft sale! This is a wonderful opportunity to do some holiday shopping while supporting a great cause: employment for women in Cairo’s Manshayet Nasr community of garbage collectors. All products are made by artisans at the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE), which provides job-skills training and […]
Join HANDS at our annual holiday craft sale! This is a wonderful opportunity to do some holiday shopping while supporting a great cause: employment for women in Cairo’s garbage collector community. All products are made by artisans at the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE), which provides job-skills training and education to young […]
Join us for the HANDS Benefit Dinner, honoring Yousreya Sawiris. The benefit will take place at the Harvard Club in New York City, and tickets are available for $300/seat or $3,000 for a table of ten. Sponsorship options are available for $4000 and $7000. We look forward to seeing you there!
Obtaining vocational skills, pursuing a career in the STEM field, or just becoming the first in one’s family to be fully literate in Arabic. These are all opportunities made possible for Egyptian youth from vulnerable households because of the generosity of HANDS’ donors! Often the children of underserved families drop out of school to pick-up […]
CONTINUE READING →HANDS was recently informed that one of our talented exchange program alumni, Aziz Taouri, was awarded the 2020 Professional Fellows Program Alumni Impact Award by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs. We hope that the entire HANDS community joins us in celebrating Aziz for his remarkable accomplishment! Aziz’s story with HANDS began […]
CONTINUE READING →The gender economic inequality that persists throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and all around the globe is not only unjust, but it also remains a source of untapped economic opportunity. According to a McKinsey study, closing the gender gap in the economy would add $28 trillion to global GDP by 2025. […]
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