Alwan wa Awtar’s work originates in the idea that everyone should have access to the arts as the arts have the power to enrich both the individual and the community, being an important vehicle for human development and social change. …
في عام 2008، أطلقنا برنامج المكتبة المجتمعية لتعزيز ثقافة القراءة والاستكتشاف في المجتمعات التي نعمل فيها. والمكتبة المجتمعية هي في الأساس مساحة للأطفال والشباب تمكنهم من اكتشاف عالم الكتب والتفاعل معه، كما تقدم مجموعة متنوعة من الأنشطة وورش العمل تهدف …
يهدف برنامج نعيش ونتعلم إلى تطوير الحافز الداخلي عند كل فرد نحو التعلم وتطوير الذات كما يهدف البرنامج إلى بناء ثقة المتعلمين في رحلة تعلمهم الفردية. ويتم ذلك من خلال توفير مساحات آمنة للاستكشاف والتجربة والتأمل، يقوم فيها الميسرون – …
يخدم هذا البرنامج الشباب الذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 15 و 30 عامًا، وهو يُمَكِّنهم من تطوير المهارات المهنية والاجتماعية اللازمة لعيش حياة هادفة متزنة تتسم بالأصالة والاتساق مع النفس. يعرضهم البرنامج لتجارب عميقة تساعدهم على اكتشاف صوتهم الداخلي وامكاناتهم، وتحويل …
منذ عام 2011، يقدم ركن الطفل المعتمد في منهجية مونتيسوري تجربة تعليمية أصيلة وغنية للأطفال الذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 3 و 6 سنوات، فهو لا يوفر فقط تعليمًا جيدًا لأطفال لا يستطيعون تحمل تكاليفه عادة، بل إنه يتبنى أيضًا نهجًا …
بالشراكة مع بعض المؤسسات المتخصصة، تقدم ألوان وأوتار الدعم النفسي والاجتماعي لنساء وشباب وأطفال المجتمعات التي نعمل فيها. تم إطلاق هذا البرنامج بعد أن ظهرت الحاجة إلى مشورة متخصصة عند بعض المشاركين، علماً بأن البرنامج يهدف إلى الحفاظ على السلامة …
لا تعتبر “المساحة الحرة” برنامجًا مستقلًا، وإنما هي الأساس الذي نبني عليه تدخلاتنا المختلفة في المجتمعات التي نعمل بها. إنها طريقتنا لتحقيق أكبر قدر من الإتاحة للأطفال بأقل قدر ممكن من تدخل البالغين، وبما يحقق للمشاركين فرصة تطوير مهارات التعلم …
We conducted a drawing and printing workshop on Pepsico’s Emoji Collection with 20 children from Mokattam. The children produced a full batch of usable products such as T-shirts, shoes and tote bags carrying the designs.
A&A led a workshop on “Team-building through Arts and Community Work”, for HSBC employees. This workshop took place in February 2019 in Kafr Hamza premises. Participants engaged in a recycling and a dance workshop with children from Kafr Hamza.
HSBC 2016 – Present: In a long-term partnership with HSBC, A&A has helped set up mobile libraries in hospitals like El-Demerdash Children’s Hospital, The National Institute for Cancer in Cairo and El Shatby Public Hospital in Alexandria. This mobile formula was developed to cater to the reality of hospitals, where little space is available and where children are confined within four walls. The support also includes training the hospital’s social-care staff and volunteers, as well as HSBC volunteers on library and book related activities.
The Suez Cement Company has funded the project of activating a public library serving its neighboring community in the city of Ismailia. A&A has helped set up the library, buy and classify books, as well as train its staff members on a variety of library activities.
Ashoka – 2015: In partnership with Ashoka, A&A has designed a toolkit on “Empathy” (called Khalik Makanoh), to be used in a peer to peer school program. Our team has also trained both teachers and students on the use of the toolkit.
In partnership with Ruwwad and Aramex, A&A has trained a group of youth volunteering at Ruwwad on the principles and methodologies of non-formal education, to prepare them to lead activities with children in their community center in Ezbet Kheirallah.
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My niece always gets good grades in Math at school. However, she does not know how to count the change when buying something from the market. This is what they’re working on here, for her to be able to use …
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We conducted a drawing and printing workshop on Pepsico’s Emoji Collection with 20 children from Mokattam. The children produced a full batch of usable products such as T-shirts, shoes and tote bags carrying the designs.