"Helmik Beidik, Your Dream is in your Hand" is a groundbreaking collaboration between UZHF and AAW to empower women in Egypt's most socially and economically vulnerable communities. "Helmik Beidik" has achieved:
- Changed perceptions of female sex workers by their communities in Egypt
- 6% would not agree for their daughters to undergo FGM
- 11% would not agree for their daughters to be married before 18
"Helmik Beidik, Your Dream is in your Hand" is a groundbreaking collaboration between UZHF and AAW to empower women in Egypt's most socially and economically vulnerable communities. "Helmik Beidik" has achieved:
- Changed perceptions of female sex workers by their communities in Egypt
- 6% would not agree for their daughters to undergo FGM
- 11% would not agree for their daughters to be married before 18
Building on those results, UZHF and AAW launched Phoenix with Ashoka Fellow Nawal Mostafa's Children of Female Prisoners Association (CFPA), Egypt's first organization supporting impoverished female prisoners. Phoenix directly benefited 40 stigmatized ex-prisoner women and indirectly reached 200+ individuals. "Phoenix" has:
- Equipped ex-prisoner women with vocational skills and psychosocial support to start businesses
- Launched a brand and sales outlet to market women's products
- Increased women's monthly income by an average of 45%
- Strengthened CFPA's capacity to scale its impact
"Phoenix's" momentum led to "Phoenix II", partnering with ADEW and Alashanek ya Balady (AYB-SD) to support 122 women survivors of gender-based violence in Ezbet Khairallah and Ain El-Sira. "Phoenix II" has:
- Reached 503 women directly and 3,521 people indirectly with psychosocial and entrepreneurship training
- Helped 36 women (29.5%) launch businesses or enter the labor market
- Trained 28 natural leaders who reached hundreds through awareness seminars
- Empowered women to actively prevent early marriage and FGM in their communities
"Helmik Beidik," "Phoenix," and "Phoenix II" are part of WISE, founded by Dr. Iman Bibars and led by Ashoka Arab World, empowering women and girls as changemakers by redefining definitions of success.