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 28, 2020
Support Wheelers Financially Weather Tough Times

By Amany Tarek | Project Contributor

Alhassan Employees on Wheels

Dear Alhassan donors, supporters, and believers,

Our “Source of Income” project branches into 2 subprojects: employment and SMEs. Through these two subprojects, we were able to achieve financial independence to our beneficiaries; enable them to be bread earners NOT a burden.

Given the rough times, we’ve been all going through due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeking your support to be able to survive this tough time and cover the operational expenses and salaries of our employees, who are mostly wheelchair users, while working from home. Your donation will help us continue serving wheelers across Egypt and financially weather the hard time we’re all going through. In the last period, we pay more than $10,000 monthly salaries and over $38,000 operational expenses.

We’re trying to offer our beneficiaries services to support them during this tough time. As a result, we collaborated with an online academy “E3ml Business” that offers occupational skills and soft skills training in Arabic. We used our database and ERP system to search and filter through our beneficiaries to find who is currently looking for a job. These types of skills, the academy offers, give applicants an edge and make them strong candidates to pursue the job they want.

Before quarantine, we were able to hire 24 beneficiaries in different reputable entities in Egypt. One of them is Esraa who now works at the operations department in one of Egypt’s reputable banks. We’re also currently networking with different entities to employ our qualified beneficiaries in suitable jobs. Some are already accepted in these jobs and will be employed after quarantine is over.

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. :)

Esraa in her New Office

Training Initiative

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Feb 11, 2020
Enabling Wheelers to Financial Independence

By Amany Tarek | Project Contributor

Marian in her New Office

Dear Alhassan donors, supporters and believers,

Our “Source of Income” project branches into 2 subprojects: employment and SMEs. Thanks to your generous donations in 2019, we were able to fund 93 small businesses to our beneficiaries, that they manage themselves, and got 37 other people employed in decent fulltime jobs. Through these two subprojects, we were able to achieve financial independence to our beneficiaries; enable them to be bread earners NOT a burden.

We would like to share with you a couple of our beneficiaries’ success stories. Marian is a 29-years-old lady who is quadriplegic due to a spinal cord injury. Marian is well-educated and was looking for a good job but some of the businesses owners don’t want to hire challenged people. Through our connections and advocating for challenged people, we were able to employ her in one of the reputable banks in Egypt in the operations department.

Our second story is Mohamed’s, he was unemployed and financially dependent on his family after he lost his job due to his accident which led to paraplegia. He wanted to change that, he has a kid and he wanted to give him a better life and so he sought our support to start a business for him. With hard-work and dedication, Mohamed was able to run a successful stationery store, not only that, but he was also able to grow that business and add other services, like: online payment and a copying machine.

Right now we are working on partnerships with different certified entities that provide various essential work skills to qualify our beneficiaries to get employed in proper jobs.

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 securing 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. :)

Mohamed in his Store

Mohamed with the new Equipment

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Nov 13, 2019
Alhassan, a Stepping Stone to Success!

By Amany Tarek | Project Contributor

Hany's Store

Dear Alhassan donors, supporters and believers,

Our “Source of Income” project branches into 2 subprojects: employment and SMEs. Thanks to your generous donations in the past 3 months we were able to fund 20 new “Source of Income” projects throughout 27 governorates, focusing on underprivileged areas, to people with mobility issues. Beneficiaries can run these businesses themselves and earn their living. We’ve also sent our monitoring representatives to previous beneficiaries to monitor their progress and ensure that their businesses are still going as planned. We stay true to our mission by helping the physically challenged live with dignity and be financially independent.

We’d like to share an inspiring success story whose protagonist, with admirable grit and willpower, changed his own life. We can proudly say that we were just the stepping stone on his way to self-sufficiency.

Hany, our protagonist, is a 34-years-old quadriplegic man who didn’t get any education after the age of 14 due to his mobility issue. His willpower was evident from when we first met him. We helped him start a business that was then worth 11k EGP (690 USD) but he increased his assets; bought the adjacent empty spot and made it a part of his convenience store, bought extra fridges to sell beverages and frozen goods and added a detergents section. Now, his business is worth 40,000 EGP (around 2400 USD)!

As you can see in the picture below, Hany added ramps to make his store fully accessible. Hany then applied for our “Customized Wheelchair” project and donated 6,000 EGP (around 370 USD) in recognition of our help in his journey.

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. :)

Ramps Leading to the Store

Hany in his Custom-made Wheelchair

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