Cairo, Egypt: The 8 boats participating in a ‘Sailing the Nile’ campaign reached their final destination in Cairo last Thursday. The fleet had sailed down the Nile with stops in eight Egyptian towns to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and MDG projects involving volunteerism. Read

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: 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

ثماني فلوكات تبحر في نهر النيل بدايه من اسوان  , تتوقف في ثماني مدن ، بداية من 26 أكتوبر 2006 (الموافق احتفالات يوم الأمم المتحدة في أسوان) إلى يوم 8 ديسمبر (يوم متطوعي الأمم المتحدة في القاهرة). Read

يهدف هذا المشروع إلى تدعيم الموارد البشرية في المجلس القومي للأمومة و الطفولة (NCCM) من خلال تعبئة المتطوعين, و بناء على ذلك, تسهيل خطة خمسية هادفة إلى دعم وحدة تنظيم متطوعين (VCU) ستقام في المجلس. Read

The Civil Society Educational project aims to educate people about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in three Governorates of Upper Egypt (Minya, Fayoum and Qena) and works with local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), media, academic institutions, schools and businesses Read

Achieving the MDGs will require the efforts of millions of ordinary people through voluntary action. Read

Eight feluccas will be sailing down the Nile, stopping in 8 towns from the 26^th of October (UN Day celebrations in Aswan) to the 8^th of December (Volunteers Day in Cairo). Each felucca will represent one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and have the corresponding “arabised” MDG symbol on the sail Read

This project aims at strengthening human resource capacity for implementation and coordination of identified priorities areas at NCCM through the mobilization of volunteers, paving the way for an integrated five years plan of action to support a Volunteer Coordination Unit (VCU) to be established by NCCM Read