Al Shehab Foundation for Comprehensive Development is taking the role general coordinator for organizing the celebration of street children’s day in collaboration with other 90 Egyptian civil society organizations that are interested in children’s issues, as well as, a group of individuals and (...) >continue
Al Shehab Foundation for Comprehensive Development in partnership with the Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHED) and the Development Support Center, has the pleasure to invite you to participate in the public conference on Monday 27th July 2009 at 17:00 at Al Shehab (...) >continue
How does this project relate to/contribute to the GCAP/ MDG campaign?
According to UN press release of 17 March 2005, access to safe water was considered a priority and as a result the United Nations and governments are finding ways to meet the internationally agreed targets of reducing by (...) >continue
Through its journey working with local communities, Al Shehab became aware of the health implications of economic and social conditions of an individual. Along with being concerned with health as a basic human right, the health issue had always been a cross cutting issue with most of the (...) >continue
women situation in Ezbet El Haggana
A survey conducted by Al shehab institution to identify the socio-economic needs of women in general and women headed-families in particular in Ezbet El Haggana 2004, indicated that the majority of women’s husbands work in careers that have no official (...) >continue
Al Shehab Institution for Comprehensive Development is an Egyptian NGO created in 2001, in one of the biggest urban slum in Cairo, Ezbet El Haggana, where approximately one million people live. The majority of the population lack access to basic services such as water, sanitation, education and (...) >continue
This project aims at spreading awareness among the poor women who
live in the marginalized areas such as El Haganna which would make them
overcome the violence that they face by filing official cases in the police
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Connecting the houses to Governmental Sewage Network at EL –Hagana area
“Funded by the embassy of Japan in February 2004”
Specific objectives:
sewage project
To connect a number of households of the local community to the governmental sewage network.
To promote the active participation of (...) >continue
Legal aid unit
A unit for legal aid was established and among its achievements stood the following:
Raising two collective cases for the population of Ezbet Al-Haggana before the court: the first demanding a sanitary sewerage network and network of drinking water, and the second calling for (...) >continue
1 Eradicating all the forms of discrimination and Empowering the marginalized classes: Improving the economic conditions of the women • This program seeks to empower women economically; widening their opportunities to choose in order for them not to be obliged to work in the jobs that would (...) >continue