Connecting Dubai Cares with Ashoka’s Fellows

On Mon 28th and Tues 29th July 2008, Ashoka’s staff and interns accompanied Dubai Cares to visit four of Ashoka Egypt’s fellows- Maher Bushra, Magdy Aziz, Sameh Seif and Seham Ibrahim. The group visited the schools and offices the fellows work at and watched their documentary films. The site visits were very successful, and Ashoka [...]

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A Visit to Fellow Magda Iskander and Care With Love

Ahmed, the Ashoka Arab World Fellowship Officer, and Scott and I (both summer interns) visited Magda Iskander, one of the first Ashoka fellows elected in the Arab Regional Office and it was an eye-opening experience because I got to see a fellow’s work and how Ashoka plays a role in her work.

Care with Love [...]

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NGOs push for treatment of drug addicts

“Addict but not criminal”- this message has covered Beirut on signs and posters since June 26th 2008 (World Drug Day) as part of a campaign. The campaign’s main goals are to advocate effective implementation of 1998 Lebanese Drug Law, initiate a referral system, educate judicial and police forces about drug addictions and enhance awareness on [...]

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How to achieve sustainable donations in Egypt?

Marwa El-Daly, chair of the Maadi Community Foundation offers a new perspective for achieving sustainable donation in Egypt. She believes donations can be more sustainable if it works within time-honored Middle Eastern charitable traditions. The first area is directing the Muslim obligation of zakat- giving alms to the needy, one of the five pillars of [...]

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Ashoka Fellow Wins 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Egypt and Jordan Announced at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East 2008

The winners for the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award for Egypt and Jordan for 2008 were announced at a plenary session of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East on 18th May 2008. Ashoka Fellow Sherif El Ghamrawy, the Founder of both Basata Ecolodge, a social business, and the complementary CBO, Hemaya, was [...]

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Bringing Hip-Hop to Helwan

Last week we traveled about thirty minutes from our office to witness the first day of Fellow Seham Ibrahim’s dance program, sponsored by Nike’s program focusing on sports for Gender Equality.

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