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Association of Upper Egypt for
Education and Development
Annual Report
2001/2002 & 2002/2003
Table of Contents
I. From the Board of Directors and the Management 2
II. Strategic Directions 4
III.Milestones 6
1. The Schools Honor Their Commitment 6
2. Non-Formal Education 9
3. Socio-Economic Development 10
4. Community Participation 14
5. Empowering Community Based Associations 15
6. Revival of Cultural Heritage 16
7. The Integrated Training Center of Abu Korkas 18
8. Global Outreach 19
9. Greater Outreach in the Local Market 21
IV.Financial Statement 23
Acknowledgements 24
Annual Report 2001/2003
I. From the Board of Directors and the Management
T his is the first ordinary meeting of the General Assembly since No-vember 2001. In 2001/2002, the Association has undergone a proc-
ess of adjusting its position in accordance to the new NGOs law No. 84 for 2002. An extraordinary meeting of the General Assembly was convened in April, 4, 2003 to approve the Association's new Statutory Law and cleared by the Ministry of Social Affairs.
In this annual report we report the financial statements of two years; 2001/2003.
The Association has undergone a rejuvenating process during the past two years where the house has been put to order in preparation for a new phase of the Association's evolution.
I wish to refer, in brief, to some basic milestones of the past two years:
♦ A new strategic plan and strategic directions have been concluded.
♦ A new accounting system laid down by the Hilal-Grant-Thornton Office has been applied. The new system maintains strict control over expendi-tures to match their allocated budget items and monitoring cost centers to deliver detailed data that effect transparency and accuracy in financial re-porting.
♦ The Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer held a European tour, en-dorsed by the Catholic Church of Egypt, which took them to Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland. The tour aimed at reinstalling old partnerships and reviewing the latest development of financial and administrative re-forms in the Association.
♦ Donor organizations made it quite clear that they were no more subsidize
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I. From the Board of Directors and the Management
the cost of education as not all this subsidy reach the real poor and needy. Since our schools have to abide by the state's rules that stipulate that the applications of admissions to primary schools are ruled only by age and the geographical area, all children, poor or otherwise, who abide by these criteria, have to be admitted. This rendered a situation where some of the children are actually capable of paying the cost of the educational services in the schools.
♦ Based on this, the Association had to readjust the payment scheme for the children of the schools, to ensure the dimension of community partici-pation in the cost of the delivered services, while ensuring that the poor will maintain the opportunity of education, and those alone will be subsi-dized. A ministerial decree was issued in September 2003. authorizing the Association collection of fees for all its 36 private primary schools effective the academic year 2003/2004. We extend our deepest gratitude to Fr. Na-bil Gabriel, Secretary-General for the Secretariat of the Catholic Schools, for his efforts towards this goal of community participation.
♦ Upon a social survey conducted by the Association, it turned out that 80% of the students' body in its schools will afford paying partially, if any at all. The Association upholds it original mission to continue support these chil-dren by covering the cost of education for them.
♦ The Association obtained grants towards the implementation of new projects beside the old projects still running. Of these new pro-jects:
♦ The enhancement of the educational process in 20 government schools in Sohag with a grant from the Egyptian Swiss Develop-ment Fund.
♦ Health school project in 51 schools in four governorates funded by the NGOs Service Center.
♦ Environmental education project funded by the Embassy of Great Britain.
♦ Project to activate the Child's right in collaboration with Caritas.
Emile Nouer President
Hani Samir Chief Executive Officer
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First: Institutional Capacity Build-ing.
Institutional capacity building for local
community organizations such as commu-nity development associations, different
1. Strategy for Continuous Devel-opment and Education:
First: Formal Education for Children
Through AUEED's 36 formal primary schools, a constant effort is being exerted to de-velop the educational proc-ess and activate the school’s role in motivating the society towards human development and progress.
Second: Non-formal Edu-cation
Informal education will tar-
get those who dropped out of schools or have never enrolled in any, through:
• The parallel school program for children (Community School)
• “Learn & be Free” program to eliminate illiteracy (applying the philosophy of Paulo Frere)
Third: Socio-economic Development AUEED will intervene towards realizing socio-economic development mainly through the development of life skills for girls and
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II. Strategic Directions
2. Strategy for Empowering Local Institutions to Lead Self-development Efforts:
boys, men and women needed to further so-cial change and improve the quality of life in these communities. This takes place through intervening in health, environment, culture and economic development and gender main-streaming.
AUEED aspires to
develop life skills
for girls and boys,
men and women to
improve the
quality of life
3. Strategy for Continuous Quality Improvement:
First: AUEED Program Development
Setting standards and quality indicators for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the various community development in-terventions. This will ensure the quality of deliverables and their appropriateness to the end recipients, as customers of these services. This process starts with program planning and design, implementation, moni-toring and evaluation of outputs at every stage. This also will ensure the ongoing quality improvement with aim of achieving the best attainable results.
Second: Institutional Capacity Building for AUEED
This includes setting systems, policies and plans and developing staff skills and per-formance. This is done to ensure quality in the management and execution of the vari-ous programs and development interven-tions.
II. Strategic Directions
committees, agricultural cooperatives, chil-dren clubs, youth centers, etc.). The main aim is to empower these institutions to lead the community development process.
Second: Networking.
Networking with governmental and non-governmental organizations, both inside and outside the community.
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1. The Schools Honor their commitments
Despite a period of a tight budget, the Asso-
ciation’s school continued to honor their com-
mitments of providing a comprehensive and
complimentary service.
A – Upgrading the Educational Process - In collaboration with the "Arab Bureau for Development", a pro-ject of training and introducing the Internet in the schools of Menya was implemented. Three training seminars were organ-ized for 20 teachers in ICT skills, out of which 6 were given TOT. A team of 3 trainers was estab-lished and provided training for an additional 17 teachers to ac-quire ICT skills. - In collaboration with the French organiza-tion “Blancmesnil”, computers were in-stalled in the schools of Sohag and Quena together with training the teachers in ICT skills. - The joint project of “Creating Professional Training and Educational Mechanisms in Upper Egypt" with the European Union, the French NGO “Committee Against Hunger and Towards Development” (CCFD) and the Friends of Upper Egypt in France, going through its final 4 year stage, continued to finance projects that link education to the labor market. The project also aims at en-hancing the teachers’ performance with continuous on-the-job training and devel-oped criteria for performance evaluation of the schools’ staff. This year, the project or-ganized training for trainers” (TOT) for the leading team in education of the Associa-
tion in Lebanon, where the 8-member-team
were exposed to various similar experi-ences in Lebanese NGOs. In line with the policy of upgrading the edu-cational process and shifting to modernizing teaching tools, the schools of Luxor and Nag’El Sayagh introduced the Electronic Educational System, self-financed from the local communities, to expose the students to wider knowledge horizons and produce attractive educational aids. During the year, 360 of the schools’ staff, teachers and administrators were provided with training seminars on teaching methods, the psychology of the child's growth and the design of various pedagogical and educa-tional programs to enhance the cognitive and critical thinking of the child in the ele-mentary school. Total training hours were 562.
“Knowledge is a core
factor of production and a
principal determinant of
productive and human
capital” .
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B – Health in the Schools ♦ The “Open Eye” project, funded by the Dutch Or-ganization “Open Oog” continued to provide preven-tive and curative health care for the students of the schools. The Dutch Organization has faithfully con-tinued its commitment, for more than a decade now, in financing the component of the “Eye Protection” in both the schools and the specialized ophthalmologic clinics.
♦ However, the “Health” component in the schools, in its other various dimensions, suf-fered from the dwindling of resources. The Health Program Team of the Association, to-gether with the four Regional Offices in Upper Egypt, tapped resources in the local communi-ties and succeeded in finding “alternative” creative solutions.
The Health Program emphasized on training teachers and health coordinators, providing train-ing workshops for 50 teachers. The program aimed at motivating these teachers, together with providing them with the necessary skills, to oversee the health welfare of the students, employ-ing the available facilities in the village. They collected contributions from the relatively well-off families and notables of the villages to finance the program. They even came out with some innovative ideas such as using the earnings of the agricultural program and home economy classes, collecting old and unused material and furniture, selling them and use the yield in financing the health program. Teachers also succeeded in activating the role of the local health units and optimizing the utility of the public health insurance system, despite its shortages.
C – Extra-Curricula Activities Child to Child Program The program’s focal point is the children in the 4th and 5th grades of the primary school. These children are trained by the teacher supervising the school health program, to observe and report illness symptoms of their younger peers. Awareness is an important component of the program. This year, the children implemented campaigns against female geni-tal mutilation, combating respiratory and summer diseases, mal-nutrition and intestinal parasites. The Nutritional program continues as one of the most vital com-ponents in School Health. Undernourished students are pro-vided with 3 hot meals per week, and are subject to regular medical check-ups.
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Environmental Program
♦ This year, the Association is implement-ing a project financed by the British Em-bassy in Egypt to enhance environ-mental education in the schools.
♦ Environmental camps and campaigns have been organized in the Association’s schools. Students continue to carry out cleanliness campaigns inside the schools and in the entire village, paint the facades of the houses, plant trees, and dedicate the week ends to launch awareness campaigns against pollution, smoking and collect garbage and the schools’ litter. The children went to the length of cleaning the Luxor tunnel after receiving the official approval of the mu-nicipal council.
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Cultural, Athletic and Artistic Activities ♦ An important dimension in the global
build-up of the child in the elementary school is the cultural, athletic and artistic activities. The program aims at unleash-ing intrinsic potentials, enhancing crea-tivity and physical and emotional build-up of the child.
♦ Children are trained in the production of theatrical plays. In Luxor, two such plays were produced handling the Palestinian problem and gender disparities. In the various schools, children introduce the curricula in the form of theatrical plays to facilitate knowledge grasping. Football teams, with both girls and boys, are formed, and enter various competitions on the regional levels.
♦ Excursions, outside the limited realm of the villages, are being organized to ex-pose the children to the country’s heri-tage and their wider milieu.
♦ School broadcast is a daily activity at the outset of the school day. Children an-nounce the outstanding events on the national, regional and local levels.
Civic Education Program The program aims at developing children’s participatory skills and reinforces a culture of democracy, free expression of opinion and respect of the other . Class councils are formed through a free ballot elections and participate in diagnosing and solving prob-lems
III. Milestones:
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Literacy learning
• Literacy classes, implement-
ing the "Learn and Be Free" Pro-
gram have a total of 2295 learners, 97% of
which are women of different age categories.
three-year implemented program in the par-
allel school is composed of cognitive learn-
ing and vocational training after which the
learners obtain the official certificate of
completing the primary stage and become
qualified to join the mainstream of the for-
mal educational system. Girls represent
more than 80% of the learners.
2. Non-Formal Community Education
The Parallel School
• The “Parallel School” is the Associa-
tion’s version of non-formal education, one
way of expanding educational opportunities
for children in the age category 18-15 who
either dropped out from school or never en-
rolled in one.
• The Association operates 18
parallel schools in the four Gov-
ernorates of Upper Egypt which
are the geographical area of the
Association’s services. The
“Diversification of education and unconventional schools help ex-
pand educa-tional opportuni-ties, especially for girls”. The
Arab Human De-velopment Re-
port 2002.
• The program is implemented in 150
classes scattered in 37 centers in Upper
Egypt and one in a popular district in Alex-
andria. The classes are supervised by 126
coordinators and a nine member adminis-
trative team.
• This year, 344 learners acquired the
literacy certificate and became qualified to
pursue education in formal schools.
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3. Socio-Economic Development
A. Woman Empowerment
• Gender disparity is one manifestation of
social inequity that disenfranchises women.
Part of addressing its endeavors to em-
power the disadvantaged, the Association
implements a multi-faceted Woman Pro-
gram”.
• The Program involves
three interrelated dimen-
sions: literacy learning,
mother and child care and
small-to-medium-credit in-
come generating projects
that is incorporated in the
wider Economic Develop-
ment Program. Gender is a
cross-cutting theme in the
entire programs starting with
the schools (formal education
where girls represent 45% of
the total students' body), non-
formal education, with girls rep-
resenting 80% in the parallel
schools and 97% women in lit-
eracy classes.
• A new project for promoting
gender dimension in the Asso-
ciation's programs is being implemented in
collaboration with the German Organization
"World Day of Prayer". The project aims at
training trainers in content analysis of media
messages regarding woman's image de-
picted by the media and in the school text-
books.
“Income poverty is only one aspect of human
impoverishment ...
Income is not the sum
total of human lives …
“Arab Human
Development Report 2002.
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• The Association, in collaboration with Caritas
Lucerne, is implementing a project of woman em-
powerment in 9 Woman Centers and 4 parallel
schools in Sohag. The project, servicing 527
women and 117 learners, aims at providing training
for trainers, enhancing the learning process in the
parallel schools and empowering women with
health and civic education.
• Also in Sohag, the Association is implement-
ing the project of “Combating Female Genital Mu-
tilation” in collaboration with the National Council
for Motherhood and Childhood. The project, im-
plemented in 5 villages of the Governorate, aims
at eliminating FGM totally and finally in the se-
lected villages in 3 years.
• In collaboration with the Swiss Organization
“Fastenopfer”, the Association is implementing a Gender project in the Woman Centers and
parallel schools in Assiut Governorate. The project aims primarily at producing a manual and
incorporating gender issues in the literacy classes and the parallel schools. The project, with
the approval of the sponsoring organization, is extended for one extra year, in order to fully
and efficiently achieve its objectives.
• This year witnessed the winding up of a Gender pilot project im-
plemented with the Canadian international Development Agency
“CIDA” in Egypt.
• The three-year Woman Empowerment project in Menya Gover-
norate is being implemented with the co-financing of CIDA-Canada
and the Partners of Upper Egypt (PACHE) in Montreal – Canada.
The project aims at developing social, economic and cultural condi-
tions of women, activating woman's role and upgrading the skills of
the woman centers coordinators.
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tion of 3 health teams in the 3 villages im-plementing the Child-to-Child program’s philosophy.
• The centers provide health education, reproductive health, regular medical check-
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B. Health
• In the Menya Governorate, a co-joint project between the Association, the sub-contractor, and the Jesuits and Freres Or-ganization, is implemented with the financ-ing of the NGO’s, Service Center. The pro-ject’s core is the “Enhancement of Nutri-tional Conditions of Children less than 3 years old”. The project, implemented in the villages within the Menya Governorate, aims at promoting nutritional education for
the mothers with infants less than 3 years old, providing medical care for the infants diagnosed with mal-nutrition and the forma-
ups for the pregnant and treatment of ane-mia and nutrition. Newly born infants are given special regular follow-up to monitor the vital signs of growth, with special em-phasis on breastfeeding, nutrition and vac-cination.
• This year the Association landed a grant
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C. Credit Program
• One of the major components of the ESDF funded project of "Global Project for Education and Development" is the small-to-medium credit projects. The objective is to create income generating opportunities for poor families in ten communities in the Governorate of Sohag and Luxor. The two-year project has extended 1062 loans to the total amount of L.E.3, 551,100. The credit unit of the project has reached sustainability and is self autonomous.
• The Association intends to build on the success of the program by expanding it to other areas according to the need.
from the NGOs Service Center funding the project "Improving the Health Conditions of School Students of the Association and some Government schools in Upper Egypt.” The project aims at enhancing the skills of 102 of the Health Program staff of the Asso-ciation and teachers in 16 primary govern-ment schools. It also aims at reducing in-stances of mal nutrition among the benefici-aries, prevention and treatment of eye dis-eases and eye sight defects, increase health awareness among the parents and the number of beneficiaries of the govern-ment health units in the villages.
• The Open Oog Dutch Organization continues to support the p r e v e n t i o n and treatment services in the ophthal-mologic clin-ics of the As-sociation un-der the pro-ject entitled
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• Local communities served by the Association’s various developmental endeavors assumed posi-tive attitudes and attempted at constructive en-gagement. This was propelled by the financial de-pression of which the Association suffered during the past two years due to dwindling resources and the change in the grant policies of major donor or-ganizations worldwide.
• Faced with this challenge, the Association’s units mobilized the internal forces of the local communities which responded with a high sense of responsibility
• Parents Councils are a vital structure within the schools with the function of connecting the school to its milieu and cementing relationships between the staff and the student’s parents. In Menya, the Parents’ Councils contributed 24 computers to the schools. In Sohag, Parents’ Councils contributed computers to the schools, donated financial to-wards the schools fees for those who were not able to pay and established a kindergarten in the Negeila school.
• In Assiut, the Development Center of Kosseya achieved self-sufficiency and effected a surplus of LE 296 from the contributions of the beneficiaries who were able to pay for the cost of the services.
• In Sohag, the local communities of the 7 schools in the Governorate contributed 16 com-puters with a total cost of LE 51,140.
• In Luxor, The Association’s Regional Office succeeded in cutting expenses, covered the op-erational and administrative cost for 3 months with a total of LE 16,000, and reduced the expenses of the development services by 53%. The Luxor school introduced the TV circuit with the contribu-tion of the parents and the local community. In Nag’ El-Soyagh school, the students carried out the project of the “School, A Productive Unit”, buy-ing 40 shares to implement a project of producing pop corn and juices with a capital of LE 68, to which the headmaster contributed with LE 10.
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4. Community Participation
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5.Empowering Community Based Organ iza t ion (CBAs)
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• A strategy of empowering local CBAs - now part of the new strategic directions -has been in the making since 1999, the date of implementing the Global Project for Educa-tion and Development", in collaboration with the Egyptian Swiss Development Fund (ESDF) in Egypt
• One dimension of the project is the insti-tutional capacity building of 8 CBAs in the most deprived rural communities to guaran-tee development sustainability. The CBAs, selected according to a carefully set of crite-ria, are located in the four Governorates of the Association’s geographical domain in Up-per Egypt; Menya, Assiut, Sohag and Quena.
• The Association provided the 8 CBAs with services to build institutional capacity, both in administration and financial manage-ment. The CBAs work in a diverse realm of development encompassing environment, health and credit projects.
• A similar project is being implemented in collaboration with the ESDF in Sohag for the “Enhancement of the Educational Process in 20 Government Schools”. The 3-year project is a model of activating local communities incorporating the vital component of empow-ering 8 CBAs, in the vicinity of the selected 20 Government schools so that to be able to carry out similar projects in the future. The project established 20 committees in the lo-cal communities to oversee the enhance-ment of the educational process in the se-lected schools, improving the skills of 700 members of the schools’ staff, government supervisors and headmasters/mistresses to-gether with improving the infrastructure of the schools. The project incited the commit-tees, to donate LE 107,000 towards the achievement of the stated objectives.
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A. Akhmim and Hagaza • The Community Development Center of Akhmim, established in 1961, provides training on manual woven textile and the production of spontaneous art for girls and women of different age categories. The Center's activities were removed to wooden kiosks in the yard after the collapse of the building in the 1992 earthquake. A new building is being reconstructed with a fund from the ESDF and is designed to accom-modate for the training and production of 100 women.
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6. Revival of Cultural Heritage
• This year's annual exhibition in April was organized under the auspices of Mrs. Suzan Mubarak and inaugurated by Mrs. Amina El Guindy, Minister of Social Affairs. Attending the inaugural day were the am-bassadors of the Holy See, Slovenia and Sweden, and the wives of the ambassadors of USA, Britain, Belgium, Austria, France Czech and Sweden. On display were the products drawn after motifs driven from the Pharaonic, Coptic and Islamic heritage to-gether with scenes of everyday life in the fields and village produced in spontaneous expressions.
• The Hagaza woodwork workshop, whose handicrafts products are displayed in the same annual exhibition, is also moving in a new building funded under the same project by the ESDF. The present workshop has the training and production facility for only 15 trainees, whilst the new workshop will have the training capacity 20 young men. The workshop produces work handi-crafts of decorative pieces and small items of furniture derived from Pharaonic, Coptic and Islamic motifs.
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B. The Choral • This year, the Association's Choral. Composed of the children of the Associa-tion's schools, added to its repertoire the musical play "Market of Stories". The Cho-ral staged a performance in the Hanager Stage of the Cairo Opera House this sum-mer after having played it in Alexandria.
• Also this summer the Choral was in-vited by the Egyptian Arts Academy in Rome to Italy where they staged two per-formances in their first trip abroad.
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carpentry, electricity and welding.
The Center contains 2 main buildings: • A hostel for accommodation, meeting halls, restaurant and a kitchen with a capac-ity of serving to 110 persons.
• A separate building of the 4 vocational workshops.
• Part of the Association’s global develop-
ment package is the Integrated Training
Center (ITC) in Abu Korkas, Menya Gover-
norate. The Center is considered a main
support for developing the human capital in
the Association and a necessary step to-
wards continuous development in Upper
Egypt.
7. The Integrated Training Center at Abu Korkas
• The ITC is now operating partially. The
numbers of occupied nights are 52 nights.
994 persons attended sessions and meet-
ings. A series of vocational trainings were
held in the workshops where 72 trainees
attended 4 trainings from 1/7/2003 to
1/9/2003. The workshops are plumbing,
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The past decade has seen many new waters running under the bridge. Donors policies and trends changed worldwide, and resources were dwindling due to a global recession that resounded in Egypt.
Throughout its period of a tight budget, the Association was propelled by its partners in Europe, Canada and the USA who all lined up behind the Association to get it out of its crisis.
In France, the Friends of Upper Egypt, as earnest as ever in their allegiance with the Association, extended immediate bridge funds and continued to tap grants for the As-sociation's programs via French and interna-tional organizations. The Friends invited rep-resentatives form the Association to attend their general assembly in February 2003 and listened to the latest developments of the re-form policy implemented by the new manage-ment together with an outline with the reper-cussions of the global events on the donors' policies and their impact on the Association.
In Switzerland, the Solidarity Foundation for Upper Egypt, a gathering of Egyptian expatri-ates and Swiss friends, was swift in support-ing the Association. This year witnessed the sad event of the passing of the late William Cassis, head of the Foundation since its in-ception in the eighties. Mr. Cassis, the former chief of the Nile Valley Scouts in Egypt before
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8. Global Outreach
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leaving to join the International Committee of the Red Cross, was a firm believer in the po-tentials of the poor communities of Upper Egypt, served by the Association, and showed a devoted commitment to the Asso-ciation's mission. The Association feels the heavy loss of losing such a sincere friend, and shares with his family and friends prayers for his soul. Members of the Foun-dation are currently studying the possibility to shift the Foundation into a registered Swiss NGO that will collect funds for the As-sociation.
In Canada, the Partners of Upper Egypt con-tinued their support to the Association by extending various efforts to tap bridge funds and collect donations and match them through international donor agencies. The Association was represented in the Partner's general assembly of 2002 which was a chance to give a glimpse of the latest devel-opments and the plans for the future.
Last year saw a wider outreach in the USA by the establishment of the new sister or-ganization "The American Friends of Upper Egypt", in St. Louis. The new American NGO started its fundraising activities by ex-tensive campaigns among the Egyptian ex-patriates in the USA and organized two suc-cessful tours in 2002, 2003 for one of the Association's board members. On the other hand, Egyptian expatriates in Minnesota or-ganized fundraising events last fall and are in constant contact with the Association in Cairo for further activities. The second chap-
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ter of the Friends of the Association of Up-per Egypt in California, founded in 1996, is still serving as a bridge with the Associa-tion.
On the other hand, some board members made two successful tours in Europe in 2002 and 2003 where they met with old partners of the Association in Italy, Ger-many, France and Switzerland. After a pe-riod of suspension of these partners' sup-port, some of which have gone back to the early nineties, the organizations decided, collectively, to come to the Association's support and pledged to extend bridge funds to cover the Association's deficit. All The organizations fulfilled their commit-ments and furthermore offered to give al-located grants to development activities. However, all our donors indicated that they would not support the operational cost of the schools but will consider pro-jects that offer integrated development with the dimension of community partici-pation to ensure the sustainability of the programs.
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Change in Total Internal Donations Revenue
0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1,400,000
1,600,000
1,800,000
2001 2002 2003Year
Reve
nue
(LE)
Total InternalDonationsRevenues
9. Greater Outreach in the Local Market
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♦ The most outstanding features of the local fundraising campaign in 2002/2003 were or-ganizing two major events sponsored by the French Cultural Center and the Embassy of Austria. The former featured a movie picture in the Center’s premises in Heliopolis and on the sideline of the event a small exhibition dis-played the textile products of Akhmim. The Embassy of Austria, with the diligent support of the wife of the Austrian Ambassador, gave a concert to the benefit of the Association at the Menasterly House attended by 300 guests.
♦ The embassies of the European Community in Cairo decide, in a generous gesture, to of-fer the Association two thirds of the proceeds of the Annual European Christmas Bazaar.
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Change in Internal Donations Revenues
0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1,400,000
2001 2002 2003
Year
Don
atio
ns (L
E)
FundrasingCampaign
Other InternalDonations
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Challenges gear up energies. Our local campaign yielded a lifetime high revenues as the financial crisis of the Association propelled all concerned parties to keep the boat sound and floating. Our special thanks go to our do-nors; individuals, corporates and associations, and volunteers for their sincere efforts.
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IV. Financial Statement :
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Congregation of Oriental Churches - Rome
Missio München - Germany
Missio Aachen - Germany
Kirche in Not - Germany
Kindermissionwerk -
Germany
Erzbistum KÖln - Germany
Erzbistum München - Germany
World Day of Prayer -
Germany
Friends of the Association of Up-per Egypt - France
Œvre d’orient - France
Blancmesnil - France
Committee against Hunger and
For Development (CCFD) - France
Dreikönigsaktion - Austria
Open Oog - Netherlands
Solidarity Foundation of Upper Egypt - Switzerland
Fastenopfer - Switzerland
Caritas - Lucerne
Sisters' Community of Seraphic
Love Solothurn - Switzerland
Ford Foundation - USA
Friends of the Association of Up-
per Egypt - California - USA
American Friends of Upper Egypt - St. Louis - Missouri
- USA
Partners of the Association of Upper Egypt - Montreal -
Canada
Canadian International Develop-ment Agency - Canada
Egyptian Swiss Development Fund
- Egypt
NGO’s Service Center - Egypt
Embassy of the United Kingdom- Egypt
UNICEF- EGYPT
Cairo Barclays Bank- Egypt
Alaska Refrigerators
Fresh Company for Household
Equipment - Egypt
Saratoga - Egypt
Palmolive - Egypt
Bishara Textiles (BTM) - Egypt
Catholic Schools & Churches of Egypt
Acknowledgments We honor the generous support of our partners
inside Egypt and abroad
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Association of Upper Egypt for Education and Development Association of Public Utility registered at the Ministry of Social Affairs sub no 1010 for 1967
65 Obeissy Street, Daher, Cairo
Tel. : 5882484—5898364, Fax : 5889635
Email : [email protected]
