Helwan Foundation for Community Development
Personal Information
- Name: Helwan Foundation for Community Development
- Foundation Contact Person Name: Zainab Ali Abdel Latif
- Foundation Contact Person Email: bashayerhelwan@yahoo.com
- Governorate: Cairo
- Graduation Year: 2024
- Foundation Contact Person Phone: 01281577553
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Bio:
Helwan Foundation for Community Development is registered under No. 5859 of 2004. Our vision: a society of justice, gender equality, and sustainable development. Our mission: The Foundation is interested in sustainable development issues in Egypt from a human rights perspective, and works to empower the most needy groups by providing services and initiatives and organizing campaigns that stimulate their participation in Development and benefiting from it. The Foundation is concerned with gender issues, strengthening the status of women and their role in society from a human rights and development perspective, and combating discrimination and violence against women. The Foundation works to strengthen the values of equality, justice, and non-discrimination among citizens, and to uphold the principle of citizenship stipulated in the Egyptian Constitution. It is also concerned with spreading awareness in society to support the rights of youth, children, people with special needs and the elderly, and spreading the culture of human rights. The Foundation supports initiatives to develop the environment of local communities, especially slum communities, supports the civil movement, encourages volunteer work and cooperation with non-governmental organizations, and establishes and participates in initiatives, campaigns, coalitions and networks. Specific unions and expanding the scope of partnership with state institutions, especially local ones. Programs and Projects - Economic Empowerment Program, Informal Productive Cooperative - Center for Legal Support Services, Family Guidance, and Listening to Battered Women - Center for Educational and Cultural Services for Women and Children (Education Classes for Illiterate Women / Tala’i Children’s Club) - Health and Environmental Rights Program - Volunteering Program