Most fairy tales end with the cliché that the prince and princess live happily ever after. However, we rarely if ever get to see this “ever after.”
According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS), there were 74,000 (...)
People enjoy eating fried meals, but the cooking oil used to make them is usually wasted. GreenPan Initiative is a new youth programme that collects used cooking oil from households, restaurants and hotels and recycles it into useful products.
The (...)
Eleven acres of land, valued at millions of pounds, located between Ard Al-Lewa and Al-Sudan Street in a middle-class area in Giza governorate, was originally set to become a housing project.
Residents, however, have demanded that the land be used (...)
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olitical unrest, war, racism and natural disasters are just some of the reasons that force refugees to flee from their countries to an unknown destiny abroad.
In Egypt, students have started to help those coming to the country through the Student (...)
“Through the Embassies we try to deliver knowledge to people's own homes instead of asking them to make the effort to travel to Alexandria,” says professor Yasser Al-Shayeb, director of the Embassies of Knowledge Initiative at the Bibliotheca (...)
“I find a purity and an honesty in children that I do not find in older people,” says Sarah Medhat, 20, a fourth-year pharmacy student and art assistant on the junior summer programme offered by a private university in Cairo.
Medhat has spent her (...)
Last month, Steps Towards Progress (STP), a student activity designed to recognise young people's achievements, held its tenth anniversary and closing ceremony under the dome of Cairo University in Giza. Members of the winning teams from the last (...)
MECA, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Architectural engineering students in Cairo are celebrating their organisation's tenth anniversary this week, including by introducing a mentorship event sponsored by 10 companies that will present different (...)
“I want to train as many people as possible in Web solutions and digital marketing. At a rate of 600 a month this would mean that by the end of 2015 when they enter the marketplace there would be an army of no fewer than 6,000 Digitisers who could (...)
A video of a talented young Egyptian making art from candy floss went viral on social media last week. Ever since, the young man, 26-year-old Mustafa Mahmoud, has seen demand for his candy floss skyrocket.
“Before the video went viral I used to take (...)
In Egypt the cold weather is met by the warmest of hearts in basic acts of human kindness. Youth initiatives have sprung up to help people stay warm this winter, among them “The Guy With the Blanket,” a project set up by Abdel-Rahman.
Abdel-Rahman (...)
Four young Egyptian friends have responded to urban poverty, hoping to make a difference, with an initiative called “Fighting hunger is easy.”
Mohamed Srror is an engineer and a cofounder of the initiative. He says that too much food bought by (...)
Four years ago, young people led the 25 January Revolution with the slogan “Bread, freedom and social justice.” Today, many of those who fought for the removal of then president Hosni Mubarak are behind bars. The facts and figures surrounding those (...)
Arab young people and the problem of unemployment was the topic of the second Youth Panel Series organised by the American University in Cairo (AUC) Forum recently. The panel, entitled “Coping with Youth Issues: Why and How,” was held in (...)
Despite the political roller-coaster of 2014, many young Egyptians have decided to be proactive and change their world by changing themselves.
The fact that, according to a 2013 UN women study, 99.3 per cent of Egyptian women have been subjected to (...)
The Colouring a Grey City group, in cooperation with the Vision Students Club, painted the stairs of the Commerce Department at Ain Shams University in Cairo in October. They also transformed the gloomy grey stairs of the Ghamra Bridge in Cairo by (...)
The Hilm Elnoor (A dream of light) arts initiative was launched last week in the Ewart Memorial Hall at the American University in Cairo. The inauguration ceremony included the Cairo Celebration Choir, led by Nayer Nagui, with performances by (...)
The sexual abuse of children is on the rise. Lack of awareness and a lack of data have hidden the extent of the problem in Egypt but estimates of the extent of abuse are alarming.
According to a UN study released in 2006, an “estimated 150 million (...)
Sahafet Welad Al-Balad Media Services, an initiative designed to encourage local journalism, celebrated two years since its launch at the Press Syndicate in Cairo last week. The project is based on youth work from different governorates, and at the (...)
S3Geeks, or Saeedy Geeks (Upper Egyptian Geeks), is an initiative founded and run by Egyptian young people from Upper Egypt that aims to create a new entrepreneurship and technological community in Upper Egypt, says 20-year-old Salsabeel Anwar, the (...)
Cancer patients and cancer survivors have been eager to show that their lives are not all about medications and treatment but can be full of enjoyment and beauty. Ranging in age from their thirties to their fifties, cancer patients and survivors (...)
The Al-Sawi Cultural Wheel in Cairo was buzzing with 60 young computer science inventors showcasing their latest ideas and celebrating their successes in the Go Online Week (GOW) from 21-27 March. The project was held under the umbrella of the (...)
Many modern Egyptian mothers want to show that they have an important role to play in society while also considering their children as their first priority. Among these women is Samia Jaheen, a member of the Freedom to the Brave campaign, an (...)
When Bassant Eyada, 36, a college lecturer, was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, she attempted suicide on the day of her surgery. “Thank God I failed in the attempt because my husband saved me, but what really made me stop were the words (...)
On 21 November, the government gave the police the green light to enter Egypt's university campuses without a previous request if they saw major threats developing against people or buildings. The results have been catastrophic.
“I personally saw (...)