ALFinMOTION - Mobility Programme - Seventh Edition
ALF Hands-On: Open Call for Participation! - Second Cycle Round 2
Mediterranean Youth in Action Programme (Transformative Youth in Action)
Whether born Egyptian and raised abroad or raised in Egypt to bi-cultural parents, ‘halfies’ find themselves constantly afloat between two worlds. This journalistic article is among the winners of the Anna Lindh Foundation journalist awards.
Greek Campus
Cairo
Cairo Governorate
11865
Egypt
Safarni initiated its first activity in 2012 by providing children with the chance to get exposed to other countries and cultures using an innovative approach that has won international recognition from Ashoka, Lego Foundation, and most recently, the 2017 UNAOC & BMW Group Intercultural Innovation Award.
Safarni advisory board is involving members of different backgrounds. The Advisory board is responsible to endorse all organizational pivotal decisions; the Managing Director is reporting to the advisory board in a monthly basis, regarding all departments of communication, financial, and Programs. currently, there are 4 fixed-term employees in Safarni.
Safarni has its dynamic pool of volunteers with 100 Egyptian, migrants, and Foreign volunteers,
Safarni was depending on self-fund by its board members, but since 2018, we received funds from the IOM to implement 2 years program with migrants and Egyptian children in Cairo and Alexandria.
we mainly implement educational activities with children aiming at creating a generation who is appreciating and respecting diversity.
we partner with community-based organizations in less privileged areas. currently, we are implementing the SAWA project with cooperation with Bassita.
Safarni designs and implements educational programs that help communities celebrate diversity and support inclusion.
Educational Programmes:
Design and implement Safarni’s award-winning educational programs, proven to measurably enhance social cohesion and appreciation of difference amongst children and youth. [hyperlink video]. These include Safarni’s classic Travel Adventures, Ambassador’s Club, Diversity in the World, and Diversity in the City.
Bring people together to meet and share experiences, stories, and the uniqueness of their cultures. (organization of intercultural activities, encounters) To foster dialogue and critical thinking with regards to diversity
Training & Competencies:
Training of intercultural competencies for teachers, educators, companies,
Support community members to work on projects and initiatives to foster inclusion.
Mansoura Egypt
Mansoura
Dakahlia Governorate
35737
Egypt
Physician
Help people
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1 Studio Masr st,
Giza
Egypt
Directing and writing documentary films and live news broadcasting
16 projects
By making films
I believe in humanity and the right of freedom,democracy,human rights and education
637 Horeya Avenue- Janaklis Borg Al Khali 1
Alexandria
Egypt
Through my participation, I would like to integrate and communicate with others who live in the same region as I do but might not share my opinions or life perspective. It is our diversity that gives us the chance to learn from one another and develop through communication.
In all honesty I have no clue if what I'm doing now is right, whether someone can join as an individual member and yet has to fill in the application of an organization. Nontheless I'm interested in international and intercultural activities.
119 Misr/Helwan Road-Borg El Karnak
Cairo
Egypt
To enable partner communities locally and regionally to achieve sustainable development investment of available resources to improve the living standards and keep pace with changes in the global environment, and we thought that we support the positive participation and the realization of justice and development to achieve the highest levels of satisfaction for all stakeholders to meet current and projected needs to devise new solutions to the outstanding development best suited to the particular characteristics of each culture and society in our geography.
Throughout the past 32 years, ICA-MENA integrated development interventions benefited around 200 villages, supported by 4 branch offices extending from Beni Suef, to Aswan, Fayoum and Greater Cairo governorates as well as the Cairo regional office that provides the managerial support. Today ICA’s family includes approx. 100 committed and professional full time Egyptian staff working in the 4 governorates.
Small and Medium Enterprises and Business Planning- Microsoft: project entailed a series of training workshops that are focused on SMEs.
Training for EQUIP project in seven governorates: Through this methodology and using the Technology of Participation ICA became capable of leading the working groups towards taking the right decisions on a participatory basis
Capacity Building for Manchiet Nasser Schools: project focused on the capacity building of schools in the designated urban slum area so as to create a learning environment that supports and facilitates school enrollment.
Small Grants Program: program focused on establishing a youth exchange workshop to help empower youth to serve marginalized communities in the MENA region.
Small Grants Program: program focused on establishing a youth exchange workshop to help empower youth to serve marginalized communities in the MENA region.
Children at Risk project targets the social development of working children, children with visual impairments, and children with disabilities in Cairo, Fayoum and Charkia governorates in Egypt. This project work on realizing this goal through recognizing the rights of and empower Egyptian male and female children, specifically working children and those with special needs, hence, reducing poverty among them and providing them with a chance in the social development
Me Book Program for Democracy: This program was aimed at instilling a sense of value among Egyptian children as a first step towards promoting democracy.
48, Road 79; P.O.Box 23, Maadi
Cairo
Egypt
ICA Mission: To improve the quality of life of community groups through mobilizing their potentials in order to build a dynamic society that is aware of its assets and opportunities and capable of interacting with and affecting change.
ICA Strategic Objectives:
1-To contribute to local community development in a holistic way through the improvement of health, education and economic status.
2- To enhance the capacity of community groups with an emphasis on vulnerable groups such as women, children and youth.
3- To build partnership with stakeholders for the facilitation of effective and sustainable community development.
4-To develop ICA’s capacity as a quality Organization to be able to realize its mission.
ICA facilitates community development in the social, economic, and political realms through:
• Institutional and Human Capacity-Building of community groups, governments, and civil society.
• Creating partnerships and networks among the different sectors in society: community, government, private sector, and civil society.
• Education Enhancement, Combating Illiteracy, Life- Skills Education, and Art-for-Education for communities.
• Urban and Rural Development through health, education, employment, and environmental initiatives.
• Skills Enhancement, Youth Employment, and SME support.
• All projects and activities are community-driven initiatives, maintain gender equity, and are built for sustainability.
42 Abdallah Diraz st. Elgolf area, Heliopolis, Cairo
Cairo
Egypt
ICS main objective:
To support, and coordinate all efforts on a voluntary basis, towards providing cultural, educational, and social care to the Egyptian family.
ICS strategies:
4. Encouraging children to adopt reading as a habit and emphasizing the importance of reading, as a life-long concept.
5. Participating to the development of child literature.
6. Developing the services offered at children libraries that other societies would follow.
7. Developing and implementing illiteracy programs according to available modern system.
8. Utilizing modern scientific methods to provide integrated care for the children with special needs, and their families.
9. Participating in the development of urban communities.
10. Integrate the educational, health, social, cultural and sportive services especially in deprived areas.
11. Execute a literacy program that would comprise health and environmental awareness.
12. Participate in developing of schools, institutions for children with speci
1. Cultural and educational services (Libraries, The cultural center, the 21st century club or information technology clubs, the green corner).
2. Working with content (Reading for all, the Egyptian board of books for young people, the Suzanne Mubarak's Award).
3. Socio-Economic and community development projects (ICS in Gabarty/ Mansheyat naser area, The cultural sportive club in Ein shams, Ein Helwan community development project, development of Ezzbet & arab Elwalda area).
4. Special programs for children with special needs (the ICS center for children with special needs in Zeitoun, ICS project for improving and developing special education school, Mergence of visually impaired and blind children in ICS librarie
Partners for Transparency as head of Egyptian network received the Intercultural Achievement Award (#IAA) 2022. With the Intercultural Achievement Award, from Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
Partners for Transparency received this award for their project ‘Intercultural Dialogue against Hate Speech’ and is the first Egyptian NGO to receive this Austrian award.
The Organization has shown that a youth-led approach works and that young people – when working together - can tackle common challenges such as xenophobia, extremism, discrimination, and hate speech. It is these intercultural and interreligious dialogue initiatives that are invaluable in times of enormous challenges at a global and regional level.
The knowledge of Arab and German (or European) culture is often pictured and narrated through stereotypes. Hence, Arab literature and especially fairy tales are often neglected with the possible exception of 1001 nights. Compared to many other kinds of texts...