Economic Growth Egypt Project #27637

Fund Source of Income for Wheelchair Users - Egypt

by Alhassan Foundation for Differently Abled Inclusion

Fund Source of Income for Wheelchair Users - Egypt

Project Report | May 11, 2021
Your Donations .. Their Success

By Mostafa El-Araby | Project Contributor

Zareef's Project Before & After

Dear Alhassan donors, supporters, and believers

At Alhassan Foundation, we do our best to overcome the various challenges that face the differently-abled individuals through our eight developmental projects. The “Source of Income” project focuses on the financial independence aspect in wheelers’ lives.

Our project helps not only the differently-abled individuals but also plays a major role in improving their entire families’ lives. To cover the different beneficiaries’’ needs and backgrounds, the project branches into three subprojects:

1- Funding SMEs

2- Occupational training

3- Employment and networking

Through your donations in the past months, we were able to fund 30 new small projects. These 30 projects not only change wheelers’ lives, but they also impact their entire family's lives and improves their financial status.

We’d love to share one of our unique success stories. As you already know, we usually fund small projects for unemployed people but in this story, we invested in innovating Zareef’s business.

Zareef is a 42-years-old male, he’s a husband and a father of three. He wanted to renew his business to be able to better serve his customers and increase his income.

Zareef has been working as a barber for years. As years went by, his shop and tools needed renovation and he sought our help to redecorate and purchase new tools. Now, Zareef’s business is bigger than ever and he became the go-to barbershop in his neighborhood!

Your donations have that kind of impact. They contribute to changing the lives of wheelers. This success story only cost about $1120. Help more wheelers achieve financial independence.

We want to thank every donor or supporter who helps us to achieve this success and we urge you to continue supporting us in our case, our hope, our dream through subscribing to monthly donation which helps us secure more funds to help more wheelchairs users and their families.

If you have any job opportunities or know someone who can help with employment the wheelchairs users please don’t hesitate to contact us at recruitment@alhassan-fdn.org

Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/

Thank you for believing in the differently-abled. :)

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Jan 20, 2021
Achievements Despite Challenges!

By Amany Tarek | Project Contributor

Samia in her New Store

Dear Alhassan donors, supporters and believers,

Our “Source of Income” project branches into 3 subprojects: funding small projects, occupational training & employment and networking.

Through these three subprojects, we were able to achieve financial independence to our beneficiaries and enable them to be bread earners NOT a burden.

2020 is over and despite all the challenges it posed on people globally, it hit vulnerable groups the hardest. Wheelchair users already had low employment rate yet with the COVID-19 crisis they had even lower chances of finding a job or starting their own business.

Our mission throughout 2020 was to empower our beneficiaries and reach financial independence despite all the challenges. We were able to achieve the following:

1- Helped in employing 30 people in different national and international entities.

2- Provided 182 occupational training.

3- Provided small businesses for 41 beneficiaries.

These numbers, given the COVID-19 circumstances, are huge! It doesn’t only affect these 253 beneficiaries; it also indirectly impacts over 1000 of their family members. The entire family’s financial situation gets better. One more bread earner and one less financially dependent person.

We would like to thank each and every one of you for your support. We urge you to continue supporting our cause and stay our enthusiastic donor through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation which will help to secure more funds to help wheelchair users in Egypt be financially independent.

If you have any job opportunities or know someone who can help with employment please don’t hesitate to contact us at source.income@alhassan-fdn.org

Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)

Source of Income Achievements

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Sep 22, 2020
Financially Empowering Wheelers in Egypt

By Amany Tarek | Project Contributor

Mohamed at his New Job

Dear Alhassan donors, supporters and believers,

Our “Source of Income” project branches into 3 subprojects: funding small projects, occupational training and employment and networking

Through these three subprojects, we were able to achieve financial independence to our beneficiaries; enable them to be bread earners NOT a burden.

We’re rapidly recovering from the recent COVID-19 crises and we’re back on track, delivering services and implementing projects to our beneficiaries. Thanks to your generous donations we were able to serve 19 beneficiaries starting August 2020 till now. We periodically (every 3 months) monitor and document the projects’ progress then we take a random sample annually to generate an impact analysis.

Last year, we achieved an astonishing success rate of 91%, it’s shown in details in the figure below. We deal with the negative impact according to each case:

1- In case of death: projects are left for the deceased’s family.

2- In case of failure or trouble: we provide technical support and help beneficiaries select another project type that would suit their conditions better.

We want to share one of our inspiring stories that achieved effective financial independence. Mohamed, a 33-years-old guy who has polio, was graduated from the Faculty of Commerce in 2012. After his graduation, he wanted to be a bread earner and be financially independent but couldn’t find any jobs. He opened a clothing store instead while still seeking another job. We were able to get Mohamed hired as a customer services representative in one of Egypt’s most reputable banks.

We’re currently in the process of partnering with the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity. This partnership aims to financially empower 150 wheelchair users in Egypt, men and women aged 18 – 55 years old.

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