Girls’ Dreams Program brief2.pdf

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The Association for the Development and

Enhancement of Women (ADEW)

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ADEW was registered as a

non- governmental

organization with the Egyptian

Ministry of Social Solidarity in

1987 under registration

number 3528.

The first ADEW office opened in

Manshiet Nasser, which is one of

the largest and most populatedsquatter communities in Egypt

generally and Cairo specifically.

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ADEW was the first NGO to

address the needs of Female Heads

of Households (FHH) in low-

income areas and identify them as a

distinct target group since we

started our work in Manshiet

Nasser

As we discovered that 40% of all

households in the Manshiet Nasserare female-headed households,

and that they had no skills

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Because the female in this area drops

school when she is 9 years old, and get

married at the age of 16. And at the same

time the government programs did not

extend to squatter areas by then.

So ADEW was the first NGO tointroduce the term of "Female House

Holds“, in addition to design and

implement integrated programs

to assist them in their struggle as breadwinners, and to accomplish our target

in achieving the sustainable development

in the Egyptian society.

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FHH & thesurrounding

area

Economicempowerment through

Micro Creditprogram

Healthempowerment

throughmedical

convoys andhealth

awarenessprogram

Educationalempowerment throughEducationprogram

Legallythrough

legalprogram

Developmentof the

surroundingenvironment

throughcommunitymobilization

program

ViolenceElimination

Program

Mediaprogram

Including:

• Girls’ Dreams Program.

• Literacy Program.

• Arab Women Speak out.

• -Scholarship program.

Including: • The development

of schools.

• The development

of medical centers.• Markets

• development.

• The development

of buildings and

houses.

• Cleanliness and

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Adew has 8 branches in squatter areas

in different governorates, they are Cairo,

Qalioubiyah, and Fayoum.

And there were 2 other field offices in

south sinai and gharbyya governorates.

And there is 16 field offices in our branches,

where the activities of ADEW are

implemented

In Cairo we work in:

1. Helwan.

2. Masr El Qadema.

3. Manshiet Nasser.4. Gamae Amr.

5. Gyyara.

6. El Malek El Saleh.

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ADEW through a research conducted by ADEW Chairperson,Dr. Iman Bibars, revealed that an alarming 30% of daughters

of ADEW beneficiaries have dropped out of school, and that

they have no ambitions or daydreams about their future.

This program targets female dropouts from 11 to 20 years of age.,As many girls in working areas are pushed out of schools to help

their families or to get married, ADEW has targeted the little girls

who are deprived from education and has worked on reshaping

their interests and empowering them to fit in with their

communities and changing their low self-esteem. That is whyADEW decided to implement “Girls’ Dreams Program”.

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The “Girls’ Dreams” Program was

started in 1999 believing in girls’ rights to dream, express themselvesand to have the ability to make achoice.

We seek through “Girls’ Dreams” toteach girls how to dream and enjoytheir lives through a set of activitiesincluding: self confidence, healthawareness, visiting libraries, drawing,sports and handicrafts to enablethem to start up their SMEs.

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The program has been introduced via opening classrooms, with 20 girls per class. The place is rented inthe same streets where the girls live to guarantee thesustainability of the program and the graduation of thegirls.

The program is not only to teach girls useful skills butalso to help them solve their problems. The girlsnarrate their problems while the program offers them a

healthy environment to speak out and express theirproblems. The program also offers health awarenesssessions and discussions about early marriage andFGM/C.

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In parallel to the Girls Dreams’ syllabus, the program works onequipping the girls with manyskills like playing music, singing

,drawing and handicrafts likeneedlework, accessories, that helpgirls to create their profitablesmall projects.

Number of Girls’ Dreams

Program’s Beneficiariesreached 16,000 girls so far.

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Through more than 15 years, ADEW developed Girls’

Dreams program to fulfil the girls’ needs. So we implement

the following components:

Curriculumof “Girls’

Dreams”

Vocationaltraining

LiteracyClasses

SportsLegal

Component

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ADEW staff members facilitate a

“Girls’ Dreams” specialized well-

structured curriculum, which consists

of 3 main parts.

The curriculum has been updated

recently to keep pace with developments

in the community, and some subjects and

topics have been added after determining

knowledge needs targeted to girls from

the program.

Manual of “Girls’Dreams program” for

Facilitators

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The parts of the curriculum are:

Part I: Related to life skills and personal

relationships such as: decision-making,

participation, self-confidence and

communication, were added current subjects

such as: sexual harassment and how the girls can

address and fight it, Personal hygiene.

Part II: is a healthy approach to teach girls

changing the wrong habits which women grew

up on such as: FGM and early marriage.

Another important part was added which is the

importance of exercise and its impact on the

girl's body and fitness.

Girls inside the

classes discussingtopics like

Nutrition and

Personal hygiene

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Part III: is the legal component by which

ADEW inform the girls of their legal rights, and

the importance of official documents, and the

dangers of signing any papers without carefully

reading them.

Girls inside the

classes discussing

topics like FGM

and Personal

hygiene

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With ADEW staff members facilitating, thegirls express themselves through various

activities.

ADEW encourages distinguished girls

through giving them presents and gifts, and

that encourage girls to participate moreand more.

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The girls express themselves

through various activities as

we mentioned before- and

one of these activities is:Drawing and Colouring.

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Girls’ Dreams’ beneficiaries also express themselves

through:

Singing.

• ADEW succeeded to

form a Corus team

from the targetedgirls of the program.

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ADEW gives the chance for the girls to express

themselves through:

Acting.

ADEW found that it motivates

their imagination and enhancetheir skills.

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Through the program ADEW organizes trips for girls to

learn more about Egypt and to increase their affiliation and

also to make them feel others’ care about them, because sucha feeling is absent in most cases within their families.

• Participating in educational and

cultural trips is one of the

activities that ADEW was keen to

provide beside facilitating the

curriculum of “Girls’ Dreams”.

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After ADEW implement the three mentioned parts of

the (Girls’ Dreams’ Program) curriculum, we begin to

give girls extra and integrated activities like:

Vocational Training.

Sports component.

Literacy Classes.

Some other extra activities through some of ADEW’s programs.

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ADEW manage showing all these magnificent products which the girls make through exhibitions.

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Amira Sayyed –one of Girls’ Dreams’ beneficiaries said

that

The program provided me witha bundle of skills and

knowledge, and I chose to

participate in the Wooden

handicrafts workshops, and

learnt how to manufacturewooden products, and how to

market it.

I dream of having my own

project, and I will accomplishthis dream through what I

have learnt from “Girls’

Dreams”

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To meet the needs of the girls of “Girls’ Dreams”, aftergiving them the curriculum, ADEW provides literacy classesfor the girls

where ADEW signed a protocol with Egyptian assemblyof Adult Education (EAEA), to have the possibility ofopening literacy classes for young girls and women whodid not arrive to the age at which they can extract thenational ID card, as one of the condition to Join literacy

classes is to have a national ID card but ADEW through its good relationship with EAEA could

provide this service for the girls, by signing the mentionedprotocol.

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Amira Abdel Azeem –one of

the program’s beneficiaries-

said that:

I dropped out from school and

after that I stayed for 3 years in

home doing nothing, then when I

heard about the program I

decided to participate, and the

days proved that my choice wasright, as I learnt a lot of useful

things and enhanced my skills.

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ADEW helps the girls in playing various sports and to exercise, in order to provide them with confidence in themselves, to have fitness and healthy bodies, to provide them with life skills required to help them in expressing themselves freelyand provide them with skills to work as a team.

Through this component ADEW provide to girls membership in youth center to lether go any time to play.

Girls play basketball-handball-volleyball, and self-defense games, such as KungFu, they also play Aerobics.

The girls were so keen to prove to their parents that they can manage playingsports and to study and to do their daily duties, and they succeeded to do so.

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One of Girls’ Dreams’

beneficiaries said that:

For me, One of the most

important component of “Girls’ Dreams” program was playing

sports, as it increased my

physical fitness, and improved

my health.

I learned also team work, to

show a spirit of sportsmanship,

tolerance, and many other values

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-10 girls entered a Kung Fuchampionship at a New Mansheya club(Alsanda Championship) and the tengirls have passed the first phase. -Images of certificates of the girls areattached.

-4 girls participated in the ChineseVictory Cup Championship at theTersana Club in Nasser City. Three ofthem got Golden Medals, and one got aSilver Medal

-10 girls participated in the RepublicChampionship 2012. One girl won the1st place and received the GoldenMedal.

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As we mentioned ADEW providegirls with legal awareness, as a main

part of the curriculum parts.

But besides this ADEW also helpsthe girls in obtaining ID cards, thusestablishing their legal existence

through other program that ADEWimplement, which is “Legal Program” . And that is to meet thegirls’ needs.

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ADEW website “Arabic and English”:

www.adew.org

Face book Group and Page:

1-Page: ADEW

https://www.facebook.com/ADEWEgy?fref=ts

2-Group: ADEW

https://www.facebook.com/groups/11278969977/

ADEW's channel on youtube:

www.youtube.com/adew78

ADEW's twitter: adew_egypt

ADEW's blog

http://adew-egypt.blogspot.com

ADEW on the Web

http://www.adew.org/https://www.facebook.com/ADEWEgy?fref=tshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/11278969977/http://www.youtube.com/adew78http://adew-egypt.blogspot.com/http://adew-egypt.blogspot.com/http://adew-egypt.blogspot.com/http://adew-egypt.blogspot.com/http://www.youtube.com/adew78http://www.youtube.com/adew78https://www.facebook.com/groups/11278969977/https://www.facebook.com/groups/11278969977/https://www.facebook.com/groups/11278969977/https://www.facebook.com/ADEWEgy?fref=tshttp://www.adew.org/


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