The Actions for Marginalized Group project is an initiative identified by Ricerca e
Cooperazione with its partners – New Horizons Association for Social Development and Al-Shehab Institution for Comprehensive Development – funded by Italian-Egyptian Debt for Development Swap Program, and it started in October 2015. The project focuses its attention on family empowerment in two marginalized areas o
f Greater Cairo by tackling three main problems: youth unemployment, the impoverishment, and marginalization of women and the vulnerability of children. AMG project contributes enhancing the socio-economic conditions of marginalized groups (youth, children, and women) and increasing the income of families in Ezbet El Haggana and Ezbet el-Khirallah through an integrated strategy, that promotes employment, women economic empowerment, children participation, and awareness raising. The two main activities of the project are the creation of 200 groups of VSLA (Voluntary Savings and Loans Association), and the distributions of Microcredit Loans. Moreover, AMG project consists of three cycles of vocational training (Architectural aluminum, Hairdresser and Cooking workshops), two cycles of creative workshops for children, as well as the installation of 50 family gardens.
