building 98 – Mosadk St. – second floor – flat 8, Giza
Giza
Egypt
- Human rights
- Others
mission of the organization: -Economically empower women prisoners, by providing training and employment opportunities for them.
- The integration of women prisoners and their children in the community by removing the stigma of "former prisoner."
- Take care of women prisoners and their children psychologically and socially.
our objectives:
1- Empowering female inmates in Qanater prison to engage in income-generating activities.
2- Providing mechanisms for improving the economic conditions of ex-inmates and their families.
3- Providing mechanisms for improving the social and psychological conditions of ex-inmates and their families.
4- Improving society’s perception of inmates and their families.
5- Raising women’s legal awareness in marginalized areas (i.e. potential prisoners due to poverty-related offenses).
6- Improving the living conditions of female inmates and ex-inmates.
From the first day of establishment and registration of the foundation in the ministry of solidary, we did our best to support all the participants and beneficiaries from the foundation. It is enough to say that our Silver Jubilee celebration was in March 2015.The association succeeded through the last two years to release about 35 poverty prisoners after repaying their debts and the legal expenses of reconciliation with creditors. We nowadays implement a project with cooperation with Drosos Foundation for raise the economic life of 100 female prisoners released or still in prison, we started a project for sewing learning divided into two levels, we are now in the second level and train about 20 released female prisoners on sewing and after finishing this period, we will provide them with a sewing machine to start their own project and have a fixed income. Beside this, we have partnership with foundation “ Wahed Men Al-Nas” to share in the required amount of money to some cases of poverty female prisoners to help in releasing them.
We shared in some of international conference discus women rights, and we worked as member in women’s edition project from 1995 until 2000, finally we received a grant from the US Agency for International Development in collaboration with non-governmental organizations Services Center (NGO Service Centre) for advocacy and lobbying in 2004.
1) Merge the poverty female prisoners again in the society, encourage them to live their normal life before being as prisoners, and delete the stigma of former prisoner.
2) Renewal of self-confidence, self-appreciation and a sense of interaction in the community through psychotherapy individual and group sessions.
3) Sense of comfort that there is no dependence of the effects of debt on them, as well as the taste of a sense of security to not keep track of them by policemen or creditors.
4) Economic empowerment projects and training that women keep pace with the needs of the labor market will contribute to the financial independence of women and the lack of need for debt.
5) Accept others for the idea of poverty female prisoners, will help released female prisoners to feel belong to this society and activate their role of productivity.
1) Contribute in achieving the goals of ALF in new associations, and hence reach more beneficiaries.
2) Data and information exchange between the same associations under the umbrella of ALF.
3) knowing another associations in ALF network, will help to implement mutual projects, and delete double benefets for the same person.