Completed Projects
Final Report
On August 3, 2020, RC München Land and RC Al Shorouk (Cairo) submitted a Global Grant project to the Rotary Foundation (TRF) for the delivery of protective equipment against Covid 19 to the University Clinic in Alexandria. Approval took place on December 17, 2020.
The Alexandria medical hospital has 1000 beds, 100 of which were equipped for the treatment of corona patients. As part of the GG project, PPE masks and other material were supplied on a larger scale.
The financing of the project amount of 39,300 US $ was done as follows:
District 1842 US $ 15,000
RC Munich Land 4,800 US $
District 2450 US $ 1,000
Egyptian clubs US $ 2,500
Rotary Foundation US $ 16,000
The project was completed with the delivery of the equipment at the end of January. The handover ceremony took place on February 2, 2021 in the presence of the District Governor Osama El Ahmed and the PDG Assem Abd Ek Razek together with the presidents of the participating clubs from Alexandria and Cairo as well as a number of Rotarian friends.
The RC Gezira Sporting is supported in a cooperation project by Siemens
The project will improve access to high quality primary health care facilities that can withstand such population growth. Ultimately, providing these services will lower the death rate and increase the quality of life for the population. Providing state-of-the-art medical equipment supports the lives of high-risk groups such as pregnant women, children and the elderly. All medical needs and emergency support are part of a training package to facilitate resuscitation of the PHC in Shoubra.
RC Gezira Sporting, in cooperation with Siemens, will help ensure that vulnerable people have immediate access to an essential and integrated package of primary health care (PHC) services, including monitoring of reproductive health and diseases.
A PHC clinic was estabished in which up to 15,000 patients can be examined annually.
Siemens' cooperation partner in Germany was RC Worms Nibelungen, who helped to make the project a success within the framework of the large donation in kind of € 300,000.
Acquisition of 6 Incubators for premature Babies
The Rotary Club Oldenburg as Primary International Sponsor and the RC Heliopolis as Primary Host Sponsor entertain plans for a Global Grant Project “Acquisition of 6 Incubators for premature Babies” to be stationed in a children’s hospital south of Cairo.
Three to four employees of the Egyptian hospital will be taught in the Municipal Children’s Clinic in Oldenburg how to operate the incubators.
Next to a number of individual Rotary members three Rotary Clubs in District 1850, the Dutch partner club of the RC Oldenburg and several clubs in the United States of America will help finance the project. The amount required will come to 75.000 US$.
Global Grant Project “Water for Life 2 Sohag” (GG1635793)
As a project to follow GG/BMZ Water Project “Water for Life” (Beni Sueif) a new one was presently being developed by the Rotary Clubs Al Shorouk (Primary Host Sponsor) and München-Land (Primary International Sponsor, under the title “Water for Life 2 Sohag (GG1636793)”. 22 Egyptian Rotary Clubs and 14 Clubs from District 1842 will participate.
The project intends to finance the connection of houses of underprivileged residents in rural areas of Egypt around Sohag (Central Egypt) to the Public Fresh Water Supply System and to the Sewage System.
The Global Grant Project provided by the sponsor will be 56.500 US $ (50.850 €). The application was submitted by TRF December 2015 (GG1635793 application submitted).
Rotary Deutschland Gemeindienst, one of Rotary’s finance outlets, applied for a contribution from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ, Water for Life 2 Sohag Preparation of Project). BMZ decided to categorize the project as “A” and subsidize it in 2016 to the rate of 90%, which means that the total project sum will come to 5000.000 €.
October 2015 District 1850 RC Oldenburg and RC Heliopolis started a Global Grant Project GG1419389‚ Sanitary Project in Al Adly Village near Qualioubia in the Delta‘
The settlement Al Adly village near Qualioubia without connection to the sewage system
Initiated by Rotarian Amir Saba the RC Heliopolis (Host sponsor) and the RC Oldenburg (Primary International sponsor) applied for a Global Grant Project (GG1419389) for the connection of about 300 houses with 3000 inhabitants to the sewage system. So far the waste water drained away in ditches along the paths within the settlement (see photo). Being connected to the sewage system the life conditions of the inhabitants concerned were sustainably improved and diseases and children mortality were reduced.
A large number of clubs from Europe and the USA (see GG application) participated in the project, which to date has been approved by the Rotary Foundation. The project volume comes up to 72.000 US $.
Project Application (approved)
February 2015 RC Worms-Nibelungen (District 1860) and RC Cosmopolitan (Cairo) (District 2451): New Global Grant Project GG 1525756 "Connection of houses to the Public Drinking Water Supply and the sewaga system in a village near Beni Sueif (Central Egypt)"
The RC Worms-Nibelungen (Primary International Sponsor) and the partner club in Cairo, the RC Cosmopolitan (Cairo) as Global Grant Host Sponsor, decided to submit an application to TRF for the connection of 80 houses in Al Fant, a village near to Beni Sueif in Central Egypt, to the Public Drinking Water Supply and to the sewage system with a project sum of 39.000 US$. Ms Susann Jendrike from the RC Worms-Nibelungen is the leading member in this project. A similar Global Grant Project of the RC München – Englischer Garten of 2013 (see completed projects) is meant to be the model of this new project.
Meanwhile the Global Grant Application has been filed with the TFR (GG1525756)
Upon completion of the project (planned for end of 2015) about 500 tenants (80 families) will have access to fresh water. At the same time these tenants shall be connected to the sewage system (septic tanks). This means an additional and quite important contribution to improve the hygienic conditions in this village and thus the health of its inhabitants.
District 1810 RC Köln-Hahnentor with RAC Köln and RC Kasr el-Nile Cairo with RAC Kasr el Nile: Education of young women and signing up of micro loans.
The Cologne-Cairo-project is a joint project of the RAC Köln, the RC Köln-Hahnentor as well as the RAC Cairo Kasr el Nile and the RC Cairo Kasr el-Nile.
Following the successful Alexandria-project, the Cologne-Cairo-project aims at improving the general living conditions of women in Gezirat Mohamed, a substantially underdeveloped community in Greater Cairo. First the young women are taught basic medical care plus reading and writing. Furthermore, they receive information concerning birth control and a simple professional education. In addition, they are supported in founding micro sized enterprises by granting them micro loans.
The project is inter alia funded by the money of RFPD (Rotarian Action Group for Population and Development) and a Matching Grant. The project sum amounts to 32.500 US $.
Fast facts of the Cologne-Cairo-Project
Article ‘micro loans’ from the Rotary magazine 6/2008
2013 District 1842 RC München-Englischer Garten and RC Heliopolis: ´Education of young women (Literacy) (MG 78511)`
Education in reading
Since November 2013 the RC München-Englischer Garten (district 1842) and the RC Heliopolis (district 2451), who applied for the project to TRF and are responsible for execution, clearing, settlement and final report of the project, have been working together in the Matching Grant Project ‘Education of young girls – Literacy’ (MG 78511) in Beni Sueif, a village situated about 150 km on Nile upstream from Cairo. This project, which is also supported by the RC München-Land, was initiated by the chairman of the German section of Rotary’s Intercountry Committee, PP Frank Müller-Römer (RC München-Land).
Like in the project of the RC Oldenburg (see completed projects) within this project 600 young girls and women are educated. They are taught in 30 classes with 20 pupils each, five days a week for a total period of 7 months. The women are educated in reading, writing, knitting, sewing and in health care including sexual education. The lessons are run by local teachers and the project is supervised by Rotarians. The cost of the project comes to a sum of 19.500 US §. This mainly the lessons and supervision as well as the meals and the information material. Accommodation is provided free of charge by the community.
TRF approved the MG application end of January 2013.
Due to political unrest near Beni Sueif in the summer of 2013 the project had to be moved to the village Qalioubia, about 20 km north of Cairo in the delta. Its start had to be postponed to the end of 2013. The project comes in two steps: In the first step – for the duration of 6 months until April 2014 17 classes with 20 young girls and women as well as some men each are taught in reading and writing under the CLT-method. In the second step 13 classes will have been educated since May, 2014.
In the beginning of May, 2014, Frank Müller-Römer, Chairman of the German Section of Rotary’s Intercountry Committee, visited Egypt. He was satisfied that the project had been carried out meticulously.
The project was successfully completed in May 2015. In total, 635 young women and girls were taught to read, write and observe body hygiene in 37 courses with an average number of 17 participants.
The Final Report to TRF was put together by the R. C. Heliopolis on 17th June 2015 and accepted by the Rotary Foundation without any objection.
Final Report from Project Manager of RC München Englischer Garten see Final Report.
District 1830 RC Heilbronn together with the RAC Heilbronn and the RAC Cairo-Gezira-Sporting: Education of joung people and signing of micro loans
The Village of Gezawaya – a joint project of the RAC Heilbronn, RAC Cairo Gezira Sporting and the RC Heilbronn.
Similar to the projects in Alexandria and in Cairo Gezira Mohamed, the general living conditions of young people shall sustainably be improved by education, medical health care, professional training and by the signing of micro loans.
Due to the momentary difficult political situation in Egypt the project is stagnating. A modification is being discussed.
Because of the political situation and the unrest in Egypt in February 2015 the RC Heilbronn decided not to continue the project and not to restart it respectively. The funds donated will be paid back.
2014 Connection of Houses to the Public Drinking Water Supply in a village near Assiut (Central Egypt): Global Grant Project `Water for Life´ - a cooperation of Egyptian Rotary Clubs (Cairo, Alexandria) and German Clubs from Munich
In mid May, 2014, Frank Müller-Römer, chairman of the German section of the Intercountry Committee Egypt (RC München-Land) spent time in Cairo. Mr. Nevine Abdelkalek, PP of RC El Tahrir, and Mr. Amir Sabri, PP of RC Al Shorouk, presented to him a new Global Grant Project in planning ‘Water for Life’, for which German partners are sought. The project concerns the connection of houses in a village in Central Egypt to the Public Drinking Water Supply. Moreover children and women are educated in matters of body hygiene (wash hands, brush teeth). For more details see project proposal below.
According to official information 98,5 % of the houses in the towns and communities of Egypt are equipped well enough to be connected to the Public Drinking Water Supply. The possibility of connecting, however, means that house owners are enabled to apply to the water authorities to have their adjacent buildings connected, once the water pipeline has been laid under the street surface, and to have a water meter installed at their own cost.
According to UNICEF, especially poor inhabitants in rural areas outside of larger settlements or cities often do not have a connection to the (existing) Public Drinking Water pipeline. According to Unicef 13 % of the population of Egypt is affected. This means about 1,3 million houses with about 6,5 million inhabitants.
After having completed the Polio project for Egypt, UNICEF Egypt has now decided to put the main emphasis on the problem of the Public Drinking Water Supply to poor households. UNICEF asks Rotary for support and cooperation in this matter (similar to the Polio support). A corresponding Letter of Intent was signed (see below).
The planned Global Grant Project Water for Life is designed to help ‘the poorest of the poor’ to get connected to the Public Drinking Water pipeline. Together with the planned instruction in matters of body hygiene, health care (especially for children) the project would improve the situation considerably.
The RC El Tahrir will be Primary Host Sponsor, followed by seven other Cairo Rotary Clubs: El Obour, Heliopolis-El Nozha, Al Fustat, Al Shorouk, Heliopolis El Shorouk, Alexandria Marine and Giza-Metropolitan. The RC München Land will be Primary International Sponsor followed by six other Munich clubs: RC München-Englischer Garten, RC München, RC München-Residenz, RC München-Nymphenburg, RC München-Mitte and RC München-Münchener Freiheit.
In mid July the RC El Tahrir applied for the GG project Water for Life to TRF (GG1523697). The project sum will come up to 107.000 US $.
By the end of November 2014 the agreements of all clubs and both districts had been obtained and the GG application was forwarded to TRF for approval.
Due to insufficient consensus with UNICEF Egypt concerning the wording of a MoU, which was meant to regulate the participation of UNICEF in the GG project, the planned cooperation failed, and, as a consequence, The GG project GG1523697 was cancelled by the RC El Tahrir at TRF on 18th February 2015.
The RC El Maadi Cairo applies for a new extended Global Grant Project GG1529052. Nearly all of the above mentioned Cairo clubs and all Munich clubs and the two districts will again participate.
In the new project, the ´Beni Sueif Water Project’, 381 households with about 2500 inhabitants are connected to the Public Drinking Water Supply. The volume of the projects comes up to 89.350 US $ (see Global Grant Project GG1529052 ´urrent projects`).
Project Proposal (1) Project Proposal (2)
Unicef – District 2451 letter of intent
GG application 1523697 cancelled
2013 District 1842 RC München - Englischer Garten as well as other Munich Clubs together with the RC Al Shorouk (Cairo): Global Grant Project ´Connection of Houses in Ehnasia near Beni Sueif (Central Egypt) to the Public Drinking Water Supply (GG1412160)`
Bad quality drinking water from a well
In 2012/13 The RC Al Shorouk and 19 other clubs from Cairo cooperated together in a project in Beni Sueif about 150 km south of Cairo with a view to connect about 500 houses of an older settlement to the Public Drinking Water Supply and to the sewage system. The costs per connection amounted to about 200 € (1500 EGP). The project was completed in early summer 2013. Each house got a fresh water connection and several houses together got a sewage tank, which is emptied regularly by the community.
In the second step of the project – and in a Global Grant Project (GG1412160) – from September 2013 on, another bulk of 450 houses with 3000 inhabitants in total were connected to the Public Drinking Water Supply. The local authorities confirmed that those measures had been necessary and so one of the conditions for the approval of Global Grants was met. The other topics of the project ‘hygiene’ and ‘health care’ as well as ‘sustainability’ were met as well. All participating partners were certified.
The RC Al Shorouk prepared the application for the Global Grant Project, discussed the construction project with the local authorities and in July 2013 they – as Primary Host Sponsor – filed the Global Grant application with TRF for approval. Upon approval and according to progress of construction work the RC Al Shorouk effected payment of the funds and visited the site six times to supervise the construction measures. Moreover they effected the final payment and wrote the final report. The RC München-Englischer Garten – as Primary International Sponsor – contributed an amount of 24.225 US $. Two other clubs from Munich (RC München-Münchner Freiheit and RC München-Ost) participated with 2.300 US $ each. Moreover the partner club of the RC München-Englischer Garten, the RC Budapest City, donated 1.175 US $ for the project. The district contributed 15.000 US $ so that the total project volume – contributions of the RC Al Shorouk, the district 2451 and of TRF – came up to 82.000 US $. For further details, please see ‘project proposal’, ‘application’ and the ‘final report’.
On 25th September 2013 TRF agreed to the application for a Global Grant and approved it.
Upon approval of the project by TRF the RC Wien Graben – also a partner club of the RC München-Englischer Garten – decided to participate indirectly with about 12.000 €. They transferred the amount to the RC München-Englischer Garten.
Due to the political unrest planning and realization of the project was delayed. The calculations for the two villages Barawa Village (69 houses) and El Deyr Village (72 houses) were completed in early February, 2014 and the construction works started at the beginning of March. After that the corresponding works for the other settlements followed. It was possible to reduce the average connection costs per house and consequently, to connect more houses than previously planned. In total 452 houses instead of 400 as previously planned could be connected.
On 11th of May 2014 the chairman of the German section of the Intercountry Committee Egypt and project delegate, Frank Müller-Römer, PP RC München - Land, visited the site and spoke with the local water authorities in Beni Suef. On the occasion of this visit he assured himself that the project had been duly completed. For each connection of a house in the different rural communities a separate statement had been drawn up and verified by the RC Al Shoruk before the transfer was effected.
Several members of the RC Al Shorouk participated at their own expense in the matters of body hygiene (wash hands and property). Those measures were offered for the inhabitants whose houses had been connected to the Public Drinkling Water Supply. The necessary utensils such as soup, disinfection material and little gifts for children were donated by the RC Al Shorouk. The hygienic instructions tend to reduce the childhood mortality rate.
All the Rotarian friends of the RC Al Shorouk are thanked for their commitment and their time for planning and for the successful completion of this important project, especially PP Amin Sabri who initiated and coordinated the project.
Cooperation Agreement RC Al Shorouk Heliopolis and Beni Seuf Water and Waste Company
Approval of TRF (25.09.2013) Page 2 Page 3
Finalreport RC München - Englischer Garten
2013 District 1842 RC München-Englischer Garten as well as three other Munich clubs together with the RC Horus Heliopolis: Connection of a settlement (Abdalla Pasha in Qalyoub Extension Village) north of Cairo in the Nile Delta to the Public Drinking Water Supply (MG 79236)
Upon proposal of the chairman of the German section of the Intercountry Committee, four Munich Clubs (RC München-Englischer Garten, RC München 100, RC München-Friedensengel und RC München-Königsplatz) spontaneously decided to jointly complete a Drinking Water project in Egypt as MG project. This project was managed by the RC München-Englischer Garten. Each club donated 2.300 US $, the RC Horus Heliopolis participated as host club and along with the districts 1840 and 2450, and the grants of TRF a total sum of 28.100 US $ was raised for the project.
The project followed the MG project of the RC Oldenburg and the RC Heliopolis for the connection of a settlement to the Public Drinking Water Supply (see following project). It concerns the connection of the settlement 20 km north of Cairo and situated in the Nile Delta, with approx. 100 houses and about 2.500 inhabitants, to the Public Drinking Water Supply. As of now the women of the settlement have to get the drinking water from a connection place 2 km away from the settlement. Processed water in bad quality can be pumped from underground.
The drinking water is conducted to the houses via a plastic pipeline and via a number of junctions. Upon assignment the individual house will be connected by the local water authorities. The water consumption can be controlled by a water flow meter. The digging and earth works to run the pipelines are done by small local enterprises; sometimes they are even made by the people concerned. By working on the project themselves the inhabitants tend to identify themselves notably with the project and support it.
The planning of the project and the supervision of the construction works on site are effected by the public authorities and the local water supply company. The MG project was completely prepared by PP Magda Girgis from RC Horus Heliopolis. The MG application was filed in March 2013 and approved by TRF in April 2013. Right after the approval the work started. The RC Horus Heliopolis as Host club and together with the RC München-Englischer Garten had applied for the project and will be responsible for its completion of the project as well as for the final statement and the final report of the same. To complete the projects will take about 4 to 7 months. Plans are to be done with it by October 2013.
Due to political unrest in Egypt the start of the project was delayed until fall 2013. Beginning of March 2014 the project delegates of the RC Horus received an intermediate report (MG 79236 Prefinal Report). According to that report, the little settlement was connected to the Public Drinking Water Supply by a distribution network consisting of plastic pipelines with a diameter of 6 resp. 4” and a length of 1650 m instead of the 1350 m originally planned. Each house was connected with 1” tubes. This makes it possible to provide 118 houses and their 3000 inhabitants with fresh water instead of only 100 houses originally planned. Each house has a water flow meter in order to calculate the consumption. Principally the house owners have to buy the water flow meter from the local water authorities at a price of 750 Egyptian Pounds (about 100 €) after the tube has been laid.
Tight financial control of the allocated funds made it possible to buy about 20 water flow meters for very needy families from the unspent surplus.
The project was completed by the end of March 2014. The Chairman of the German section of the Intercountry Committee Egypt visited Cairo and he was of the decision that that the project had been carried out meticulously. On 20th May 2014 a final report including a photo report was made for the participating Munich clubs.
Final report (statement of costs)
2013 District 1850 RC Oldenburg and RC Heliopolis: Matching Grant Project (MG77627) `Connection of a village to the Public Drinking Water Supply´
Water connection in a house adjacent to the existing hand pump for ground water
In fall of 2012 the RC Oldenburg and the RC Heliopolis (Cairo, District 2450) jointly started the Matching Grant Project ‘Connection of a village to the Public Drinking Water Supply’ (MG 77627). This project was completed in the beginning of 2013. The application with TRF, the realization of the project as well as the financial settlement and the final report was handled by the hosting club RC Heliopolis. A further project partner was the French partner club of the RC Oldenburg, the RC Soissons (District 1670).
In the project the settlement Habashi Village Qalioubja Governate with totaling 850 inhabitants and 55 houses was to be connected to the public fresh water pipeline about 1500 m away from the village. A supply tube and connections to the houses were laid. The works were agreed upon with the local authorities who gave the necessary approvals. The project had a volume of 30.000 US $ (21.000 €) to cover the purchase of the necessary material. All earth works were done at site on own initiative.
The project was initiated by PP Schmidt-Schacht from RC Oldenburg. In February 2013, Mr. Saba and other members of the RC Heliopolis as well as representatives of the local authorities, Mr. Schmidt-Sacht , PDG Martin Gutsche, also RC Oldenburg, and the Chairman of the German Section of the Intercountry Committee, PP Frank Müller-Römer, RC München-Land, visited the site. Together with the enthusiastic villagers they celebrated the successful completion of the project.
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2012 District 1850 RC Oldenburg and RC Heliopolis: Matching Grant Project (MG77747) ´Education of young women`
A classroom
In Fall 2012 the RC Heliopolis and the RC Oldenburg started a further Matching Grant Project (MG 77747) for the education of young women. This project was initiated by PDG Martin Gutsche, who had already carried through several projects with clubs from the district 1850 together with his friend Mr. Amir Saba from RC Heliopolis. This project should help against poverty and to succeed in their own lives and in those of their families. For a period of nine months, reading, writing and handwork (knitting and sewing) lessons are offered for 30 classes of 20 young women each on five days a week. Moreover the young girls and women are educated in health care and birth control. The lessons are run by local teachers and Rotarians and the project is supervised by Rotarians. The project volume comes up to a sum of 20.000 US $. This funds the lessons, supervision as well as the meals and the information and education material. Accommodation is provided free of charge by the community who also choose the women to be educated.
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2012 District 1850 RC Rotenburg (Wümmeland) and District 2450 RC Alexandria Sporting: Matching Grant Project (MG76204) ´Connection of a suburb of Alexandria to the Public Drinking Water Supply`.
In 2012 The RC Rotenburg (Wümmeland) together with the RC Alexandria-Sporting started the MG Project (76204) to connect a suburb of Alexandria with predominantly jobless people to the Public Drinking Water Supply.
2010 District 1840 RC Dingolfing – Landau and RC Tullin together with the RC Rhine-Nile Cairo – improvement of further education in a poor quarter of Cairo
In cooperation with the RC Tulln and the RC Cairo Rhine-Nile, the RC Dingolfing-Landau and the Auwärter family from Pilsting support the non-governmental organization ‘Alashanek Ya Baladi’ in Cairo, which carries through different relief campaigns and projects in the poor quarter Ain elSiro in Old-Cairo enabling the inhabitants to improve their situation on their own.
The funds provided by Rotary and the Auwärter family (about 45.000 € plus funds from the MG project 77136) are used to finance an educational center, a library and to improve the infrastructure of this quarter during the runtime of the project from 2010 to 2013.
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2011 District 1850 RC Rotenburg (Wümmeland) and RC Alexandria-Sporting - Set up of a sports field for a school of handicapped persons in Alexandria.
In 2011 The RC Rotenburg (Wümme) and the RC Alexandria-Sporting carried through the MG Project (72611) which helped to set up a sports field in a school for handicapped persons.
2010 District 1840 RC München-Land and RC München-Englischer Garten in cooperation with RC Giza North: Matching Grant Project ´Education of young women in Egypt`
In the years 2010/2011 the RC Giza North in cooperation with the RC München-Land and the RC München-Englischer Garten carried through the Matching Grant Project ‘Education of young women in Egypt’ (MG 71735) with a total volume of about 20.000 US $.
In the poor quarters of the metropolises especially young women suffer from having no possibility of managing their own lives. Getting married very early they remain dependent of their husbands and families. Projects to support the professional training of young women must be very complex and looked at in their entirety. Three important facts of the worldwide aid programs of Rotary should be considered: Fight against illiteracy, discrimination of women and unemployment.
The Matching Grant Project was successful. It was conducted over a period of 10 months, about 60 young girls and women were educated in personal hygiene, reading and writing as well as in sewing. After having passed a final exam, each student received a sewing machine to found a micro enterprise.
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Final Report of the MG Project 71735
2009/2010 Distrikt 1840 RC Bayerwald-Zwiesel: ´Help for trash collecting children in Alexandria`
In 2009 and 2010 the RC Bayerwald-Zwiesel supported the education of poor trash collecting children in Alexandria with the total amount of 12.000 €. The project was realized because some club members had personal connections to Mr. Günther Förschner who worked at that time as a teacher at the German school of the Borromeans in Alexandria and had already contacted the RC Alexandria Nozhain 2008. For a number of reasons a Matching Grant Project was not realized and consequently the project was financed by the RC Bayerwald-Zwiesel on their own.
2008 Distrikt 1850 ´Help and Education of Youngsters and young Women in Cairo`
In late January 2008 10 representatives of 6 Rotary Clubs from District 1850 and Rotarians from 5 Egyptian Rotary Clubs met in Cairo and Alexandria for 4 days. Their motive was to carry through seven worldwide social projects between them which were also supported by the districts 1850 and 2450 and the TRF (Matching Grants).
2007 District 1850 RC Friesoythe-Artland-Cloppenburg and RC Heliopolis East – Four successful Matching Grant Projects
In 2007 The RC Friesoythe-Artland-Cloppenburg and the RC Heliopolis East cooperated in order to carry through joint Matching Grant Projects. Meanwhile four projects have successfully been completed.
Bild Bildunterschrift Vocational school for illiterates.
During the first project in 2007/08 and in cooperation with the Egyptian Association for Common Crafts, both clubs founded a Vocational School for the Illiterate. The project volume came up to 18.000 €. The following three subjects were important: Fight against illiteracy, discrimination of women and unemployment.
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Diabetic Treatment
In the 2nd joint project the clubs purchased and surrendered an x-ray machine and an ultrasonic scanner for a foot clinic, including information material and education of the clinic staff. The project sum came up to 20.000 €.
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Diabetic Treatment
The 3rd MG project supported the purchase of a photocoagulation machine which is used to destroy pathological vasculatures in the eye. The project also came up to 20.000 €.
Diabetic Prevention
The fourth MG Project ‘Prevention for Diabetes Blindness’ (75683) was successfully completed in April 2012.
2007 District 1870 RC Viersen-Schwalm-Nette and RC El-Tahir: ´Preventive medical and sanitary care`
In the years 2007/08 the RC Viersen-Schwalm-Nette (district 1870) and the RC El-Tahir (district 2450) successfully carried through the MG Project ‘Education, preventive medical and sanitary care’ (MG 62600). In that project 960 girls from the poor suburb of Cairo (Misr el-Kadima) were educated. The project was supported by RFPD.
District 1870 RC Geldern and RC of New Cairo: ´Professional Training for Women in the Cairo Area`
In cooperation with the RC of New Cairo (District 2450 general management) the RC Geldern carried through the MG Project ‘Population Development in New Cairo area’ (MG 62881) with a project sum of about 20.000 €. This project was successfully completed in 2010 (see final report). In the beginning of the course 240 young women were educated in reading and writing (under the CLE-method). Afterwards they were instructed in sanitary care, in order to reduce the infant and maternal mortality rates, and in sexual education (including birth control). In a third step they were trained on the job in sewing, cutting cloth to measure etc, in order to be able to set up their own micro enterprise and shop (see project description).
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