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Improving Quality of Life for Children and their Families in Toura and Helwan

Goal

Steering an integrated, community-based collaborative action to help improving service quality, institutional capabilities, and standards of living, and enhance citizen participation in two of Helwan’s distressed slum areas, Kafr El-Elw and El-Maassara areas.

Objectives

Develop green corner sense in schools of the targeted areas
Raise awareness of civil society organizations about the importance of their role in the protection of environment
Implement awareness campaign program for natural leaders, and religious institutions, to participate in raising awareness of the local communities residents about environmental, social and health issues with negative impact on development

Geographical Scope

Tora Cement Maassara (Arab Sallam and Ezbet Khalil)
Helwan Cement (Arab Kafr el lew and Arab Dahroug )

Program Phases

First Phase: June 2007- Dec 2008

Proceed with a study of action of the two local communities, and define effective services and acute problems
Prepare and carry out schools, media and green corner campaigns , and evaluate results.
Develop public awareness campaign and training programs for selected groups
Prepare and launch plan of upgrading areas and spaces.
Design media campaign for religious and natural leaders and open dialogue for a comprehensive development
Launch a campaign " step towards improving our communities for our children"
Evaluate all project activities , regular reporting will assure that activities are implemented effectively to realize specific objectives.

Second Phase: Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

Carry out schools environmental programs and forming environmental leaders
Develop public awareness and media campaigns and link them to the environmental upgrading
Carrying out situation analysis of all NGos in Tora and Helwan in the field of economic empowerment ( needs and potential)
Carrying out plan of skills improvement for target beneficiaries especially those dealing with disabled children
Linking the improving skills program with the environmental , health and social awareness campaign
Achieve quality standards and Monitoring progress of the upgrading campaign and effective participation
Preparing and carrying out training plan for micro credit activities, and link it with awareness campaign
Implementing the first phase of the micro credit and carry out evaluation
Evaluate results of the second phase and its impact on the targeted areas.

Achievements

First phase

Carrying out study of action of Kafr el elw and El-Maassara which helped defining properties, services and problems of the targeted areas.
Upgrading 5 schools from Kafr El Elw and El Maasara area, upgraded 1 health medical centers in Arab Kafr El Elw
Carrying out 38 environmental camps to encourage children anmd their teachers to develop green corner sense in their schools.
OrganizingSixty awareness campaigns on health and environmental issues , with special attention given to the awareness program on children’s rights, environment, drugs, smoking and female genital mutilation (FGM).
Publish Stories "The Palm Zaghlola" to aware children of the most important social, environmental and health issues.
Produce a play for children to show the environment problems and the solutions.
Design and publish simplified manuals about the importance of green corner, how to plant and grow it, nutrition and most important principles of personal cleanliness.
Carrying out medical caravans in different disciplines with total beneficiaries 1300 patient. Form targeted areas