Misr El Kheir Foundation

Cairo, , 11571 Egypt

Mission Statement

MISR EL KHEIR FOUNDATION-(MEK) is an Egyptian NGO- Established in 20/5/2007. The foundation is a developmental non-governmental non-profit organization, mainly concerned with Human Development. Our Vision: To become a leading organization and a global example promoting our inclusive societies. Our Mission: Comprehensive Human Development through the implementation of projects in order to diminish the levels of illness, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and unemployment. MEK’s main goal is alleviation of human suffering through sustainable human development, and thus seeks the development of eight sectors covering different aspects of Egyptian life: Social Solidarity, Aspects of Life, Health, Education, Scientific Research & Innovation, as well as NGOs Development, Gharemeen( Debtors), and the Integrated Development that tackle all comprehensive needs in poorest villages. Hence, MEK seeks to contribute positively and actively to eliminate human suffering: poverty and disease, unemployment, illiteracy, and to make Egypt an inclusive society, which can grow and remain sustained in the most vulnerable underserved communities across the country. The organizational approach (philosophy): MEK Foundation targets vulnerable communities in the poorest villages focusing on disadvantaged beneficiaries that tackle all comprehensive needs in poorest villages to focus on most vulnerable groups as children, women, indigenous people, youth, PWDs, and elders. Last year 2022, MEK celebrated 15 years of its establishment with a clear mission of Human Development. During these 15 years, MEK had been the cause of happiness to millions of Egyptian neediest families all over the country. Misr El Kheir has played a crucial role in creating a sustainable and comprehensive human impact in the 1000 poorest villages’ portfolio in Egypt especially through integrated development and in alignment with CAPMAS targeting villages with lowest poverty index. MEK has achieved extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering with more than 117 million direct services to date in seven sectors that serve the development of the neediest Egyptians. In addition to collaboration in Mega Projects aligned with the National Strategy 2030 of Sustainable Development Goals of Egypt for more than 200 million services.

About This Cause

Due to the current financial crisis which is hitting us all so hard and its economic consequences of a lot of people, we initiated a relief campaign, where we are seeking the support of private companies. The purpose of this campaign is to provide the basic needs to the very poor all over Egypt, as we already located in 17 governorates, and it targets the undeserved who lost their daily jobs and cannot afford bringing their own food supplies. It also support them to stay safe at home and do not risk their lives trying to find a job or something to eat. Nowadays, the economic crisis has changed the job market almost overnight. The global outbreak has seriously impacted the businesses and job security. It will be expected to have a long-lasting, game-changing ramifications. Unfortunately, we will also witness industries and businesses that will be severely harmed in our country. People lose their jobs and have extreme difficulties finding new ones. The hardest hit will be daily workers delivery and construction workers and also janitors or temporary workers in the malls, cinemas, clubs, retail-shops, coffee-shops, restaurants, hotels, and the list is exhaustive. During these difficult times of crisis in different parts of the country, we are pleading for humanitarian help in any manner whether in kind contributions or funds to save the thousands of underprivileged daily workers who are now in dire need for help. These daily workers have lost their main means of living which could put bread on the table. We are turning to your community social responsibility role to help those underprivileged fellow citizens who could literally starve to death and their families if they don’t have any money or food. These underprivileged sectors are in dire need of any assistance you can provide that will allow us to continue providing a safe, reliable environment for them to live to cope with the economic repercussions and undesirable effects of the threats from coronavirus. We are also approaching the holy month of Ramadan, being the season of heightened generosity, giving to the most needy, and satisfying their most basic needs of food. Our urgent products in these times of crisis: • Relief food cartons 15$ (236.5 EGP) each which contain staples for those families who are now residing in shelter with the increasing threat of COVID-19/ casual daily workers with no income now. Compliance with the UN Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Policy: Careful recruitment of new employees through official background checks; Inclusion of a clause preventing sexual exploitation and abuse in work contracts; Ensure resources and attention to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse are available throughout the organization; Coordination with other organizations on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse; including donors; and Ensure that the policy is disseminated and circulated among all employees. Compliance with UN Global Compact Alliance: Misr El Kheir Foundation supports the ten principles of the UN Global Compact with respect to human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. MEK also pledges to participate in and engage with UN Global Compact in the following ways: Support UN Global Compact business participants as they implement and report on their sustainability efforts; Engage with Global Compact Local Networks; and Join and/or support issue platforms and work streams. MEK also supports public accountability and transparency. Implementation of the Child Protection Policy: To develop a child safeguarding system, that includes implementing the necessary measures for protecting children in MEK community schools, and supporting the staff of these schools to provide essential child protection in in pilot phase with Terre Des Hommes Foundation. MEK's Geographical Outreach: MEK has acquired a solid Technical Niche of Implementation of Developmental Projects and Outreach to all the governorates with more than 500 NGOs as implementation umbrella. MEK’s extensive outreach and its network of 500 strategic NGOs, 5000 grassroots organization, 16 governorates’ regional offices which act as HQ in the governorates (Alexanderia - Matrouh - Gharbia -Dakahlia - Ismailia - Bani Sueif -Fayoum – Assuit- Souhag - Qena - Menyia -Luxor - Aswan - Halaib & Shalatin -North Sinai), 33 MEK donation stores, and numerous partnerships with local CDAs allover Egypt (Community Development Associations). This ensures comprehensive outreach and mapping of the impoverished communities’ needs, in addition to an overarching promotional, awareness, and visibility activities. MEK’s credibility, trust, and huge network of partner NGOs and volunteers will greatly facilitate dissemination, promotion, and awareness. MEK always seeks the best quality and technical expertise, thus out-sources and undergoes feasibility studies, tenders and workshops to achieve the best results. FFPA Strategic Partnership with the European Union: MEK was awarded a Strategic partnership with the European Union among 18 other civil society organizations and foundations.These partnerships aim to reinforce and further expand the support provided to civil society as a key actor for good governance and sustainable development. The awarding has marked that this identification comprises a pool of highly capable and trusted organizations. The CSOs are to participate in a dialogue with the EU and national and local actors, representing and voicing the concerns of people in vulnerable and marginalized situations, and contribute to combating inequalities. They will furthermore strengthen CSOs ability to implement and monitor initiatives funded under bilateral and regional programmes thereby contributing to the successful implementation of the EU policies in line with the overarching aim to respect the independence and right to initiative of civil society.  Established Record of Achievement:  Won the UNESCO Prize from UNESCO HQ, Paris, for its excellence in Women’s & Girls’ Education -2018 Edition through empowerment and saving from early marriage.  Won the Greatest Arab Investor Award -fourth cycle - International Arab Investor Youth Forum from UNESCO HQ, Paris, for its excellence in all six sectors for implementation of an organized work strategy that led to the provision of more than 55 million development services in 11 years  Leading role in Egypt Free of Virus C, turning it into a national project, and provision of national awareness. In addition, MEK is the largest supporter of the blood banks automation system in Egypt, More than 300,000 beneficiaries with safe blood transfusion and blood-bags, safe facilities, and health awareness with Telecom Egypt. MEK implements development projects through the following Eight Strategic Sectors:  Social Solidarity: Giving direct support to the underprivileged, including: bread winners, debtors and wayfarers, in addition to executing untraditional individual/collective Income-generation projects to generate a regular income for neediest families, to improve their status from sufficiency to efficiency.  Education: Establishment of Standard & Community Schools, Training Centres, and Higher Education Entities, provision of scholarships, and Training for Employment.  Health: Developing health care system in Egypt by providing services of high quality, related to prevention and treatment of most dangerous diseases in Egypt, in addition to direct aid.  Scientific Research and Innovation: Employing and promoting the concept of scientific research and innovation, to develop products and services that help empower neediest villages in Egypt and to provide basic services in: health, education, water, food, and energy, and empowers start-ups and incubate new ideas and prototypes through GESR incubator for social challenges.  Aspects of Life: Social Inclusion for PWDs, Spreading and conservation of Arts and Culture, Character Building, and Developing citizens’ sense of values and culture, through capacity building and enhancing self-confidence, in order to develop their quality of life.  Integrated Development Sector: Gearing all strategic sectors’ efforts collectively into one location from the poorest villages in Egypt. Grand Donations collaborate efforts to focus on upgrading and rehabilitation of needed services upon assessment surveys.  Developing of NGOs Sector: Seeking to build the capacity of the small partner NGOs and GROs, to help them provide high quality services, and support them to provide needed services of target groups within their geographical scope. At the end of 2019, NGOs Sector launched "Misr El Kheir Unit for Building the Capacity of NGOs to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", which is a specialized technical support unit to support the efforts of Egyptian and Arab NGOs in achieving sustainable development. The mechanism and strategy of the Misr El Kheir Unit is based on adopting an interactive, participatory education model based on knowledge and practice, reviewing and criticizing experiences, while working to strengthen the mechanisms of internal governance and its applications, as well as work to encourage innovation in designing development interventions and linking them to the goals of sustainable development. The unit also seeks to find opportunities to develop cooperation and joint action among Arab civil organizations and to maximize the joint role among them in facing local and regional development challenges. In order to achieve its goals, the unit seeks to open the door for cooperation and coordination with organizations concerned with the role of civil organizations, and works to transfer the distinguished experiences of Arab civil organizations in the MENA and Gulf regions.  Debtors (Gharemeen):Leading the Socioeconomic initiatives to empower debtors, drying up sources of

Misr El Kheir Foundation
4 El Ahram Street El Nafoura Square Mokattam
Cairo, 11571
Egypt
Phone +201001980816
Unique Identifier 5869958280074_7d94