The project was revived in March 2022

Our objectives were the following:

• Maintain a valuable link with the refugee youth community in Maadi

• To enable varied and fruitful exchanges between people of the same age but from different cultures

• To contribute to the sharing of skills among adolescents

• Facilitate interactions to lay the groundwork for a sustainable world

• Support the following Sustainable Development Goals

  • Quality education

  • Gender equality

  • Reduced inequalities

  • Life on earth

  • Partnerships to achieve the goals

The volunteers involved

• A group of 9 volunteers for Women's Day

• A group of 13 volunteers, including 2 middle schoolers, for the preparation of the boxes

• A group of 8 volunteers for the first clean up

• A group of 17 volunteers, including 2 middle school students, for the second clean up

3 stages in the year

1st action

• In March 2022 we contacted Tadamon again

  After several years of working together, Tadamon very officially recognised our efforts on Women's Day. In addition to the award, we spent the morning with the children gathered for the occasion. We organised several artistic and play activities, which had been completely curtailed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, school constraints forced us to leave before the end of the day.

Also in March, thanks to our first production with Kendaka, we raised funds to provide Ramadan boxes to 80 families in the community of Maadi - Basateen. The products were bought and stored by some very motivated volunteers; on the first day of Ramadan we went to the centre to distribute and pack everything.

2nd action:

At the end of April we went together to the petrified forest behind the German University in New Cairo. Before breaking the fast, we organised a clean up. Before sunset, we had collected more than 25 bags: a successful first operation that we concluded with an iftar taken together on the site.

3º action :

In the immediate continuation of this first action, we organised a new clean up on the same site at the beginning of June, but our group had grown and the organisation had also been improved. In the meantime, we met several rangers responsible for the park, as well as two representatives of the Egyptian Ministry of the Environment.

Our intervention therefore took on a new dimension:

• Better logistics and more efficient cleaning

• Information on the geology, fauna and flora of the area, as well as on the characteristics of protected parks in Egypt

• Finally, a discussion on the results in order to envisage the setting up of a team of amateur rangers in September, to carry out other actions according to the same philosophy

We concluded the day, under the shade of a tent, with tea and bread made on the spot with the help of the local Bedouins.

Further developments

Our intention is certainly to continue simultaneously in these two directions:

• To organise joint activities, as in the past, to produce a Christmas collection with Kendaka and to organise a festive event before the end of the year holidays

• To confirm our common commitment to the protection of the environment, with the help in particular of some particularly convinced and motivated rangers from the Egyptian ministry team