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East Delta Newlands Agricultural Services Project, Egypt

_Alex Bloom — Mon, 01 May 2006 16:26:34 -0400

Managing Organization: International Fund for Agricultural Development

Activity URL:

http://www.ifad.org/english/operations/pn/egy/i440eg/index.htm

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.

Life Wrap for post-partum women

_Alex Bloom — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:09:55 -0500

Managing Organization: Women's Global Health Imperative

Activity URL:

http://www.wghi.org/research/nasg.htm

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.

Care with Love - Home Healthcare Training and Employment

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:43:53 -0400

Managing Organization: Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Service (CEOSS)

Activity URL:

http://www.ceoss.org.eg/annual_eng/care.htm

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.

SEKEM Initiative

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:43:44 -0400

Managing Organization: SEKEM

Activity URL:

http://www.sekem.com/culture_n.html

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.