Activity Description:

This seven-year project is being implemented in the recently reclaimed desert lands between the Suez Canal and the Nile Delta that are irrigated by the Al Salam Canal. The main objective is to support the settlement and agricultural production of about 26,000 families. Project initiatives include: building tertiary irrigation and drainage systems; providing safe drinking water to needy communities; supporting credit banks in extending their operations to the area; and establishing community organizations that can participate in management of the irrigation system.

Activity Description: Maternal mortality is responsible for over 500,000 deaths globally every year. Obstetric hemorrhage contributes to the greatest proportion of maternal deaths and, in developing regions of the world, women die because there are often long delays between the occurrence of hemorrhage and treatment.

Funded by a MacArthur Foundation grant, the Women's Global Health Imperative is studying whether the "Life Wrap," a simple neoprene and Velcro device (much like the bottom half of a wet suit), may fill this deadly time delay.

Activity Description: Care With Love is an employment training and placement program for home healthcare workers in Egypt. The program employs young women and men with limited education and employment prospects, gives them quality training to become a healthcare workers, and in the process helps them to lift themselves out of poverty. The value added by this program design is two-fold: it increases the number of home healthcare workers in Egypt and provides employment to disadvantaged people.

Activity Description:

The SEKEM initiative began as an organic agricultural business outside of Cairo that combined social and environmental objectives in its business model, through training in modern farm management, organic cultivation and the negotiation of long term supplier contracts. It currently provides reliable employment and income to 900 small and medium scale family farms while reclaiming over 3,000 hectares of farmland, almost half of which is reclaimed desert land.