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Training facilitators of comprehensive development skills classes for children in Minya

The Good News Association for Educational and Research Services, in cooperation with the Another Reality Foundation, implemented training for facilitators of comprehensive development skills classes in Minya Governorate within the Your Knowledge Achieves Your Dreams project. Training was carried out for 25 women in Giza to qualify them to open classes for 600 children of Takaful and Dignity beneficiaries aged 9-12 years in Minya and Giza governorates. This comes from the association’s belief in its role in discovering and building children’s capabilities, and that instilling values is one of the pillars of building the modern state.

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An entertainment party for “Children of Giza” within the Alamak project that fulfills your dreams

An entertainment party for the children of the Giza Strip, as part of the “Your Knowledge Achieves Your Dreams” project, which aims to eradicate the illiteracy of Takaful and Dignity beneficiaries, and take care of their children. The Ministry of Social Solidarity, the Adult Education Authority, and a number of grassroots organizations, including the Life Makers Association and the Family Home Association, and a number of local leaders in the Abusir and Saqqara centers participated in the ceremony. The day included a number of different activities, a puppet theatre, games for children, breaks, distribution of sweets and food, face painting, and a number of singing and entertainment segments.

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Capacity building training for development leaders in Nigeria

The Petra Institute organized capacity-building training for a number of development work leaders in Nigeria, for several days. This comes within the framework of cooperation with Take Heart International, where 18 development leaders from the capital, Abuja, and some from the city of Yola, were trained. The training focused on ABC Development and planning skills.

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Harvesting the wheat crop...as one of the outcomes of the field seasons project in Minya Governorate

The Good News Association harvested the wheat crop, which the beneficiaries of the Field Seasons Project were trained to cultivate, in Minya Governorate. The wheat crop is one of the outputs of field school classes, and the crop will be distributed to the beneficiaries themselves. The field classes project comes within the framework of fruitful cooperation between the Good News Association for Educational and Research Services, the Life Vision Foundation and the Nour Al-Islam Association, which works to raise participants’ awareness of the latest methods of modern agriculture and the compost industry, in cooperation with professors and consultants from the College of Agriculture, with the aim of enabling them to help Their husbands work in agriculture to raise the productivity of acres, in addition to empowering them socially through a social awareness-building approach to provide them with life and social skills.

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Training 50 local leaders within the Alamak project that achieves your dreams in Giza and Minya

The Good News Association for Educational and Research Services implemented training for local leaders in Giza and Minya governorates, for a period of 4 days, two days for each governorate. This comes within the “Your Sign Achieves Your Dreams” project, with the aim of building the capabilities and skills of 50 local leaders in the Giza and Minya governorates, with whom the project is implemented. For her part, Ms. Maryam Ibrahim, Director General of the Association, confirmed that training works to achieve sustainable development, as development will not be achieved except with community participation, so we invest in local leaders, by training them in sustainable development skills and community empowerment, so that they are able to develop their communities, as They are more concerned about the reality of their regions and their problems.

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Delivering water to 25 homes in cooperation with “Life Makers”

Within the framework of the Alamak Achieves Your Dreams project, social research was carried out for 25 cases of the most needy beneficiaries of the Alamak Achieves Your Dreams project in Badrashin in Giza, to install water connections to the meter, in cooperation with the General Authority for the Eradication of Illiteracy and Adult Education in Badrashin, the Life Makers Foundation and the facilitators of the Alamak Achieves Your Dreams project. . The Alamak Achieve Your Dreams project comes as a result of cooperation between the Good News Association and the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, and aims to liberate Takaful and Karama beneficiaries from illiteracy. The project also comes within the “Solidarity Without Illiteracy” initiative at the Ministry of Social Solidarity, which was launched by the President of the Republic, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, in March 2015. With the aim of providing a social protection umbrella for the most needy groups.

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A youth trip within “Promoting Citizenship Values” in Minya

The Good News Association for Educational and Research Services carried out a trip for young people to the city of Al-Bahnasa in Beni Mazar in Minya Governorate, as part of the activities of the project to promote the values and practices of citizenship. 35 girls and boys from Minya participated in the trip, and the trip program included a number of cultural and sporting activities, and a visit to some archaeological areas such as the Ali Al-Jammam Mosque, the Maryam Tree in which Maryam took shade during the Holy Family’s trip, and a visit to Al-Hassan bin Saleh Mosque, the great-great-grandson of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. He greeted, and saw the remains of some underground churches and the Abu Samra minaret, in addition to visiting the Shrine of the Seven Girls. The trip also included presenting a development session on managing emotions and self-expression. This comes within the framework of the project “Promoting the Values and Practices of Citizenship in Minya Governorate,” which is implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Social Solidarity (the National Associations Support Fund). The protocol aims to enhance the values and practices of citizenship in Minya Governorate, as the project includes implementing several social, economic, and cultural activities and interventions to spread the values. Tolerance and acceptance of others, targeting all segments of society, including community leaders, youth, women, and children.

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The National Center for Women celebrates Mother’s Day amid the “field seasons”

A number of members of the National Council for Women visited the field classes, which are implemented by the Good News Association for Educational and Research Services, in Minya Governorate. The National Center for Women also held a celebration after motherhood, and a symposium on early detection of breast cancer, and also discussed the problems facing women and worked to solve them. This comes within the framework of the field classes project, which works to raise participants’ awareness of the latest methods of modern agriculture and the compost industry, in cooperation with professors and consultants from the College of Agriculture, with the aim of enabling them to help their husbands in agriculture to raise the productivity of acres, in addition to empowering them socially through an awareness-building approach. Social training to provide them with life and social skills.

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