HANDS is proud to announce the successful completion of our most recent Professional Fellows Program exchange. Ten young disability rights advocates from Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia were graciously hosted in Seattle and Washington D.C. by organizations dedicated to helping people with disabilities in their communities. With the goal of exploring strategies that can be used to enhance […]
CONTINUE READING →Watch the Egyptian, Moroccan and Tunisian Fellows from our most recent exchange program in Seattle and Washington D.C.! The 2017 theme of our Professional Fellows Program is NGO development. This summer, Seattle- and D.C.-based organizations focused on persons with disabilities graciously hosted 10 fellows for one month. While Fellows had fun exploring American culture through […]
CONTINUE READING →Mounir Naili is a Hands Along the Nile Professional Fellows Program alumnus. In spring 2015, through the HANDS program and his placement at the Chicago Hearing Society, Mounir learned about the services and opportunities accessible to the deaf community in the U.S. Through his experience with the PFP, Mounir discovered more about the social […]
CONTINUE READING →The death of a loved one always presents new difficulties in the lives of those affected. For women in many parts of the world, the death of a husband is a particularly trying time. Oftentimes, this loss can leave women in a vulnerable situation. This is the situation in which we found Sabreya. Sabreya is […]
CONTINUE READING →HANDS is privileged to have worked with Amira Hassan, one of our Egyptian Professional Fellows Program alumni. One of Amira’s most impressive accomplishments since spending one month in the U.S. with HANDS’ Professional Fellows Program, is successfully developing a web-based self-learning tool: a career guidance game. This interactive game offers students and adults suggestions […]
CONTINUE READING →For most students, the first day of the school year is a mixture of excitement and nerves, as they begin new chapters of their lives. Students are happily reunited with their friends and are greeted warmly by their teachers, ready for a year of new experiences. However, for Karim El Mougy, a 25-year-old Egyptian living […]
CONTINUE READING →Samiha hails from the village of Hassan Basha, where she attended school until the fifth grade and now works as a chicken farmer to support her husband and four school-aged children. She started with just a few chicks, which she bred, grew, and sold. She carried on this way until she had two wooden cages […]
CONTINUE READING →Recently, HANDS managed to catch a brief interview with our very busy Professional Fellows Program alumni Jaouad Benaicha. In addition to his day job of working to establish a hostel in his hometown of Oujda, Morocco, Jaouad is the General Secretary of the Oriental Region Youth Hostel Association, Project Manager for the Integration of […]
CONTINUE READING →SOY students completing an assignment on computers Mina Rashed is nineteen years old and has been living in Manshiyat Naser, a garbage collection community in Cairo, since he was a little boy. In these communities, families survive by collecting, sorting and recycling about 80 percent of the city’s waste. Like many others his age, Mina […]
CONTINUE READING →Hepatitis C is a major global health problem, and it is estimated that more than 80 million people are chronically affected worldwide, with 3-4 million new infections and 350,000 deaths each year because of hepatitis C health-related complications. Egypt has the highest hepatitis C prevalence in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that one […]
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Join HANDS in the DMV area for the chance to purchase handicrafts created by women in Egypt! We will be hosting a craft sale of products made by artisans from the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE). This is a job skills and educational program for women living and working in the garbage […]
Join HANDS in New York City for the chance to purchase handicrafts created by young women in Egypt! All products are made by artisans from the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE). This is a job skills training and educational program for women living and working in the garbage collecting community in Cairo. […]
Please join us at our annual fall benefit event! Come and support Hands Along the Nile with a night of Egyptian music, a silent auction of Egyptian handicrafts, and special guest speaker, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Daniel C. Kurtzer. Location: The Fabbri Mansion (7 East 95th Street, New York City) Date: Thursday, October 3, […]