Mar 30, 2023 | Africa, Education, Egypt, Sustainable Development, Upper Egypt Village Cluster, Wellness
A Growing and Active Area A seed project was created for a group of Towa women in the dialysis department of Minya Hospital, and I participated. We visited 21 children and 27 senior women and men. The women who participated said they felt great pain in their...
Mar 30, 2023 | Africa, Education, Egypt, Sustainable Development, Upper Egypt Village Cluster
Partnering to Learn, Grow, and Give Esther, from the village of Kom al-Ahmar, was a student in the Transformational Community Development (TCD) group for children. She learned moral lessons and began to teach her parents the lessons, principles, and values that...
Dec 27, 2022 | Africa, Education, Egypt, Sustainable Development, Upper Egypt Village Cluster, Wellness
Teaching, Training, Providing, and Loving Nubian women help their husbands feed their families by selling small products such as perfume, soap, palm fronds, and some Nubian foods. Short Term Trip (STT) volunteers purchased some products, which made the women very...
Dec 2, 2022 | Africa, Education, Egypt, Sustainable Development, Upper Egypt Village Cluster, Women's Empowerment
Building Relationships and Good Health In Bani Mazar, there were two teenagers, Ruqayya and Fatima, who had friends at school who loved and cared about them and treated them differently than others. The friends approached them and encouraged Ruqayya and Fatima to...
Oct 31, 2022 | Africa, Egypt, Upper Egypt Village Cluster
Building Relationships, Trust, and Businesses Umm Karim, a woman from Al-Shorfa Village, has three children, a boy and two girls. She learnt in the Transformational Community Development (TCD) women’s group how to make liquid soap and Dettol (a disinfectant). She...
Sep 30, 2022 | Africa, Education, Egypt, Sustainable Development, Upper Egypt Village Cluster
Encouragement, Awareness, and Change A sports day was held for our TCD village of Kom Al-Ahmar, where we played more than ten games with lessons on cooperation, encouragement, and motivation. Then we spent the day having a fun time in the swimming pool,...
