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AHED is an Egyptian NGO established and registered with the Ministry of Social Affairs in November 1987, and mandated in 1998 to work anywhere in Egypt.
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- To assist in identifying appropriate strategies and policies in the areas of health, disability and environment which particularly respond to the needs of the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups from a developmental viewpoint.
- To raise awareness and advocate around issues related to the above through campaigning, dissemination of information and publications, training, etc.
- To develop and/or assist the development of grassroots comprehensive interventions/models through which these strategies could be tested, evaluated and lessons learned.
- To help in strengthening cooperation and integration among different bodies working in the above areas, particularly on the NGO level both nationally and regionally.
- To facilitate and assist in the empowerment of marginalized groups through the development of organizations representing their interests.
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Better Life Association is a non-governmental organization, which was established in 1995 in Minya governorate and changed into a Foundation in 2003. The organization aims at improving the living conditions of the marginalized sector in rural and urban areas. Its field of work focuses on facing the causes of poverty and violence in these areas. It works under the principle of social justice and human rights, with a special focus on women, farmers and fishermen. It works on raising health and environmental awareness, a process through which lectures and training are given and direct services are provided such as small loans.
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- To improve the quality of life of fishermen in the governorate.
- To improve the status of waged farmers in the governorate.
- To empower girls in the age bracket (8-12) belonging to deprived and marginalized communities, and enhance their conditions of security through the benefit of socio-economic, health and human rights.
- To improve the status of women living in the East coast of the Nile in Minya.
- To promote the role of the civil society/Local Popular Councils and enable women to participate in public life.
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The Center was established in 1995 as non-governmental non-profitable organization. It tries to enhance the notion of gender equality and activate the law of the Egyptian constitution in regards to women’s rights and according to the international agreement for human rights.
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- Raising consciousness in the district of Boulaq Al-Dakrour with regard to women’s rights. This district was mainly chosen because of its lack of services offered to women, and it has high rate of illiteracy.
- Providing legal education for women regarding their human and legal rights.
- Monitoring women’s rights violations.
- Providing women with basic legal services and legal aid free of charge.
- Offering legal procedural services for women such as obtaining a birth certificate, identity cards, pension cards, social assistance.
- Organizing seminars and workshops for women to simplify the legal concepts.
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The Center was established in Helwan district in 1990. This district is known to be the largest industrial district in Egypt with the largest number of workers. The idea emerged out of a need expressed by the democratic workers and trade union movement, which began in the seventies, for an independent and democratic trade union organization, that is free from government control. The Center is concerned with two issues: the democratization of the trade union movement, as part of a general democratization of society, and the effect of structural adjustment policies and privatization on the workers and poor in Egypt. Based on these concerns, it organizes lectures, training workshops to raise the awareness of the workers of the reality of workers’ movement in Egypt and its labor laws. The Center also works on the documentation of workers and unions’ news. It provides legal assistance and legal consultancy for workers.
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The idea to create this group emerged in 1983 and included some sporadic performances until a homogeneous theater group was created between 1987 and 1989. However, the group remained with no legal status till 1998 when it registered as a joint-stock company. Since that date, its artistic and management performance have developed to meet the constant growth and diversity of activities.
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The group aims at contributing in the establishment of a free, democratic society where all individuals benefit from full citizenship; a society that respects diversity and pluralism as well as the freedom of expression without any form of discrimination based on gender, ideology, class, or age.
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- To provide new dramatic sources which can develop the arena of theater production in Egypt and to explore it in our own performances.
- To support the artistic field with new well-rounded talents which can raise the standard of the performing arts in Egypt.
- To integrate cultural activities within the field of development through traveling performances as well as supporting NGOs who want to introduce culture as a component in their work.
- To assist in the development of independent theater groups and to help develop a common agenda among these groups.
- To develop the institutional and legal structure of the company in order to provide the necessary stability and framework for development.
- To develop the financial resources of the company.
- To develop a constant and stable relationship with the audience, through obtaining a permanent place for performing.
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The Center was established in 1987 as a limited partnership company working in the district of Helwan, and was then registered in 2004 as a Foundation under the Ministry of Social Affairs. The Center’s main objective is to provide the necessary institutional support and action which would lead to the empowerment of different groups, especially women and children of Helwan, so that they can gain better access to services, control over available resources and decision making affecting their lives.
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The Center mainly targets women, however its services are not limited to women but address the community as a whole through the other activities, like the day care center and the youth summer club.
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The Women Program: It includes a sewing workshop, literacy classes, legal aid, a listening center for victims of violence, and a women’s club. It aims at:
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- Fighting discrimination and violence against women, and raising women and social awareness in order to overcome the negative perception of women.
- Improving the economic status of women through training and job opportunities.
- Diminishing the rates of illiteracy, especially among girls.
- Improving the legal rights of women and helping them to access their rights through awareness raising and legal aid.
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The Youth Program: Enabling youth to participate in the programs of development in their local community.
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The Children Program: It includes a kindergarten for early childhood and training workshops for workers in the field of childhood for NGOs located in Helwan. It aims at:
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- Disseminating the adequate pedagogic principles among the institutions concerned with childhood and the society as a whole. This occurs through the model of a kindergarten that encourages children self-expression and develops their talents and capacity of innovation. It also involves the dissemination of the culture of children rights among children, their families, and the social institutions.
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The Center works in the field of human rights and it provides legal assistance and consultancy, and works on legal research and studies. Its main aims are to improve conditions of human rights in Egypt, conduct legal research that is related to and focused on the cases of human rights abuse, and raise the awareness of lawyers and judges themselves. It tries to activate the already existing human rights laws in the Egyptian Constitution and in accordance with the international agreements for human rights.
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- Contribute in the improvement of human rights in Egypt.
- Develop legal research and studies related to human rights.
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The organization begun in 1984 as an informal group of women activists. In 1991, it registered as a non-profit civil company, then registered as a foundation in 2003 under the Ministry of Social Affairs.
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- Contribute in the efforts aiming at developing and supporting the Egyptian women movement.
- Mainstream gender issues in the agenda of all social and political forces.
- Establish cooperation and networking with a number of Egyptian and Arab women organizations in order to elaborate a common vision.
- Interact with the international women movement and coordinate efforts about common issues of concern.
- Support marginalized women and empower them through access to information, the establishment of pressure groups, and awareness raising.
- Establish a democratic society where forms of gender discrimination disappear, and where social, political, economic equality take over.
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| We are a group of youth, volunteers
and activists are interested in the social work based on
local communities within the Egyptian society. We established
El Shehab Institution for Comprehensive Development (Duly
registered under the number 5186 on 11/6/2003). The institution
works in marginalized and slum areas of Greater Cairo and
it aims at empowering the most marginalized groups such
as women, children and youth without distinct based on sex,
religion or color.
The organization was founded as a Civil Nonprofit Company,
named Al-Shehab Center for Comprehensive Development, whose
goal was to develop the local community in different disciplines.
According to Law No. 84 for the year 2002 and its executive
bylaw, the Center applied to be registered as an Institution.
The registration was granted and its name became Al-Shehab
Institution for Comprehensive Development. Registration
No. is 5186 on 11/6/2003.
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| Democratic society where every human
enjoys his/her social, economic and political rights according
to the international conventions of human rights. Empowering
people to own their tools in order to achieve social justice
and social monitoring.
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| Promoting and developing slum and poor
areas and empowering the residents of these areas to own
their tools and resources, in order to be able to defend
their rights. Providing a developmental model through implementing
projects that tackle the local community needs and create
local cadres to achieve community participation.
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| To work in a partnership with the local
communities through:
1- Decentralization in the decision making
2- Transparency.
3- Community participation and social monitoring.
4- Team work and tolerate the other.
5- The spirit of volunteerism.
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| 1- To empower the most marginalized
groups within the poor and slum areas.
2- To alleviate the all forms of discrimination and violence
against minorities and to achieve the integration between
the individuals within the local communities.
3- To provide access to the infrastructure for the residents
of the poor and slum areas.
4- To enhance the community participation of the residents
within the poor and slum areas.
5- To build the capacity of the institution to enable it
to achieve its goals.
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| Support for Information Technology
(SIT) is composed of a group of activists working in the
fields of information and open source technology. Their
main objectives were to break the chain of information supremacy\hegemony,
combining between information and the new techniques in
preserving it, depending on what the new technology has
to offer in the field of projecting information and searching
methods. They believed that besides the enormous amount
of information and the variety of its sources, there has
to be a technology to provide information for researchers,
politicians or journalists in ways that allow them to search.
This objective aims at dealing with the centralization
in preserving information and the arbitrariness in providing
it from one hand and to break the chain of programming supremacy
to make this information useful from the other hand.
In this way, SIT works on two parallel levels. The first
of which is working on providing specified prepared information
to be used by researchers in a way to simplify its content
and creating data bases for information and data in various
subjects. The second level is spreading the culture of open
source programming to break the chain of programming supremacy
which is considered one of the most important ways to reach
information while developing open source programming to
suit researchers and organizations’ needs.
With the development of mechanisms and digital information
technology techniques, it is now possible to build bridges
of communication between science and information. This can
be achieved through transferring information to a digital
intermediate that is cheap in preserving, recapping and
distributing.
In this way, SIT works on transferring information and data
bases into modern mediums, like compact disks or launching
it on the internet and thus; make it available for the biggest
number of targets and at the same time, reducing the costs
of its distribution through regular ordinary printed ways.
SIT is an attempt that grew to penetrate the fogginess
of information in Egypt with the absence of a culture supporting
information circulation and the absence of a law to arrange
this circulation process. It was also founded to help students
and those who search for truth in order to achieve their
goals.
SIT is convinced that modern methods of division of labour
are the best ways to perfectly complete missions. SIT; therefore,
was founded to show the border lines between the processes
of collecting information in its primary shape – as
a first stage in any organized work. In this way, they could
help enable their beneficiaries do their roles perfectly,
concentrating their efforts on the researching process and
not waste their time attempting to collect information.
SIT welcomes offering its services to all those who search
for information seriously all over the world and more specifically
in the Arab region. This is because of the absence of the
limited resources of electronic search methods that help
in providing information, preserving it, specifying it and
indexing it in the region which creates a permanent obstacle
in the way of those who search for knowledge.
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We are a group of activists and professionals
working in the Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression
(AFTE), the legal independent institution established in
2005. AFTE is concerned with issues of reinforcing and protecting
freedom of thought and expression.
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| As a basic characteristic of democracy
and a way for expressing one's self, freedom of thought
and expression is a basic feature supporting the development
of society. Both individuals and the achievement of good
governance are in need for positive interaction between
society and individuals which can only be achieved through
access to freedom of thought and expression.
As the basic freedom embracing any dialogue within the frames
of societies, access to freedom of thought and expression
depends upon a system of views, thoughts and information
that are circulated and communicated in society without
exposure to any kind of restrictions.
However, this does not mean that the practice of this freedom
results in harmony between the various existing approaches.
This is because the aim of protecting / preserving it is
represented in the presence of diverse opinions with the
access to information and its neutrality at the same time.
Therefore, the activists working in AFTE share a common
vision summarized in the Egyptian society's access to freedom
of expression through its own chosen ways of expression
guaranteeing access to information and ideas without censorship
while ensuring the importance of the principles of tolerance
and accepting the other, to achieve real democracy while
respecting the human rights conventions mentioned in the
constitution, treaties and international agreements.
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| Working on promoting human rights concepts
and principles concerned with freedom of thought and expression
mentioned in the international convention related to civilian
and political rights (articles 19 and 21), the international
convention related to economic, social and cultural rights
(article 15) as well as the Declaration of Principles and
the tolerance that was authorized by the UNESCO's General
Conference in its 28th cycle and other concerned conventions
and agreements to the civilian, the legislator and the activist.
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