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 | 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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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.

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

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