Valuable Girl: Empower 100,000 Girls in Egypt

Dear friends

At the beginning of a new year, our hearts are longing to hear encouraging news to feel inspired.
Here I brought you a story that will delight your hearts.

Marina seemed to have few chances for a better life. As a little girl in elementary school, she was confronted by a triple threat: her family’s lack of resources, society’s indifference to educating girls, and Egypt’s strained school system. Worse, the farming village where she grew up with her widowed mother was far from her school.

Marina was not scared into silently accepting her fate. Instead, she walked 45 minutes each way to reach her school. Furthermore, she refused to leave school to work on the farm. Nevertheless, she was working on the farm every day after finishing school.

Of course, this affected her studying and educational attainment. But she prayed for a chance to improve and keep going to school.

Her efforts were rewarded and prayers were answered.

Today, Marina is enrolled in the Valuable Girl Project led by Coptic Orphans. She’s now receiving proper attention and help with her education. Through the care of her Big Sister Alyaa (The “Big Sister” is the title of older girls who help little girls to study), Marina improved her reading and writing and was ranked at the top of her class in her mid-term exams.

To date, Coptic Orphans has helped 19,300 girls and young women improve their educational attainment and regain self-confidence, through the Valuable Girl Project.

Thanks to your support, Coptic Orphans can enroll more girls in the Valuable Girl Project to give them open doors for their education and achieving their dreams.

Dear friends,

I’m excited to share some good news from the Valuable Girl project.

This month, 3,000 Big and Little Sisters received their psychological capital training to grow their “HERO” attributes: Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, and Optimism. The psychological capital training is just the beginning of an exciting journey, where the girls enrolled in the project participate for twenty-four months to help them live the life they envision for themselves.

Many of these girls face daily struggles, whether it’s being bullied about their hair or body shape, judged for their social status, or simply oppressed because they are female. These challenges leave girls of all ages vulnerable to countless harmful social practices. On top of that, they often internalize the distorted images that others impose on them.

This is why the training is so important. We designed the psychological capital training to help the Big Sisters (18-23 years old) and the Little Sisters (10-12 years old) grow their inner strength, increase their resilience, and unlock their full potential. The girls learn to reframe their self-perception, develop a positive view of their roles in life and society, manage stress effectively, and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.

The psychological capital training creates a safe, supportive environment where girls can openly share their feelings and experiences. By the end, each girl leaves with a powerful toolkit she can use anytime, anywhere, to face whatever life throws at her.

Thanks to your generous donations, these girls are receiving high-quality training that helps them become stronger, more confident, and ready to take on the world.

Your support is truly making a difference!