Sohag: At the Rowing Club on the banks of the Nile in Sohag Governorate – about 500 kilometres south of Cairo- celebrations took place on Monday as the eight feluccas of the “Sailing the Nile for Development” project approached the bank Read

Aswan: Under Aswan’s midday sun a group of young women and men gathered on the pier before entering one of the eight MDG feluccas. On each felucca discussions and questions were raised about a particular MDG and the young participants looked at their role in achieving Egypt’s development objectives. Read

Aswan: Environmental awareness and trans boundary cooperation between Egypt and Sudan was the focus of a meeting hosted by the Nubian Museum under the overall framework of the Sailing the Nile for the MDG’s project. Read

Aswan: With the rhythms of local folklore emerging from the Nile up to Aswan’s Fyrial Gardens, His Excellency Samir Youssef, Governor of Aswan, Dr. Aziza Helmy from the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood and Maher Nasser, the Director of United Nations Information Centre in Cairo, proudly inaugurated the first stop of the Sailing the Nile for Development project Read

New York, London: On 15-16 October, more than 23.5 million people, in over 80 countries around the world set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of people to “Stand Up Against Poverty”. Read

Cairo, Egypt: Representatives of the Egyptian Government, civil society and different United Nations agencies gathered on the banks of the Nile for the official launch of the Sailing the Nile project, a national initiative to raise awareness and encourage action towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). Between October 29th and December 7th eight feluccas will sail the Nile from Aswan to Cairo, making eight stops en route, each of which will represent one of eight MDG’s. Read

65 volunteers came together in Alexandria for three days, from the 27th to the 29th of July, to discuss raising awareness of human rights in Egypt. Read

Cairo, Egypt: Many of Cairo’s citizens are confronting urban-related problems, e.g., poverty, lack of housing and sanitation facilities, and internal migration through volunteering. Below are three projects showing how volunteers, through the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, contribute and mobilize fellow Cairenes in developing their 'triumphant city'. Read

Cairo, Egypt: UNV and UNDP, in partnership with the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM), are working with communities to stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Egypt. The joint 'FGM Free Village Model' project discourages the practice by raising awareness of the harmful mental, physical and social side effects of FGM. Read

Cairo, Egypt: The Hope Village Society, an Egyptian organization dedicated to working with street children and a partner of UNICEF, is running a programme to train homeless children as mentors for even more vulnerable children on the streets in a suburb of Cairo.  Not only is this programme assisting vulnerable youth, it is also raising awareness regarding the plight of street children to address the problem. Read