Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women

"In the mid-1980s, a group of development professionals launched a pioneer micro-finance project in the community of traditional Cairene garbage collectors, Zaballeen. The project was the first of its kind in Egypt and was lauded for making credit accessible to a marginalized community that otherwise had no access to financial services.

"During the course of the project, the project organizers recognized a unique opportunity to replicate the project's success in additional low-income areas of Cairo. They networked with other development professionals and together identified a target group that was particularly vulnerable: low-income women of female-headed households.

"In 1987, these twenty men and women officially created the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW). The Association registered with the Ministry of Social Affairs as a private, voluntary, non-governmental organization, and the first ADEW office opened in the low-income area of Manshiet Nasser."


 * Nermin Foad	Executive Director.

Board
Accessed February 2011:


 * Iman Bibars 	Chairperson
 * Somaya Ibrahim 	Deputy of the Chairperson
 * Zahra Al Shobaky 	Treasury
 * Tawfika Tawfik 	Secretary
 * Golnar Al Abd 	Member
 * Shokri Hussien 	Member
 * Hanya Moussa 	Member
 * Maged Helmi 	Member
 * Hana Ayoub 	Member
 * Maya Moursy 	Member

Contact
URL: http://www.adew.org