About the Foundation

What we work on

• Programme area 1

  People with disabilities

  Awareness, assessment and rehabilitation for people with disabilities, learning difficulties and Irlen Syndrome, with a focus on rural Gharbia.

• Programme area 2

  Scientific thinking and innovation

  A ministry-approved inventors’ club, robotics camps and the “Make Your Toy” programme, delivered in schools and cultural centres.

• Programme area 3

  Women, children and youth

  Child development and child rights, competitions and camps, and employability training that prepares young people for the labour market.

• Programme area 4

  Cultural and human development

  Creative writing workshops, drawing camps, theatre and film, and human development training and conferences.

• Programme area 5

  Education quality

  Spreading quality-assurance practice in pre-university and higher education, and publishing the work of the late Prof. Magdy Abdel Wahab Qasem.

Governance

The Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees; the board and a finance committee approve the annual plan and spending lines. In line with the Foundation’s privacy policy, only names, roles and professional titles are published.

Board of Trustees

• Mervat Mohamed Fayed

  Chair of the Board of Trustees

  Director of the training department

• Mohamed Attia Emara

  Treasurer

  Head of the legal affairs section for youth and sport

• Sonia Abdel Aziz Hashish

  Trustee

  Director of the social solidarity department — retired

• Mohamed Ali Omar

  Trustee

  Senior librarian teacher

• Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed

  Trustee

  Head teacher, Bakfour Belshay school

The five members named in the Foundation’s own statement of the board. Only names, roles and professional titles are published.

Premises managers

• Mahmoud El-Leithy — Manager, Tanta branch
• Ali Mansour — Manager, second Tanta branch

Where we work

Six premises across Gharbia and Menoufia governorates — operating sites for activities; the Foundation has no separately registered branches. It also delivers in partner schools, cultural palaces and fellow associations.

• Main administrative office

  El-Delgamon, Kafr El-Zayat — Gharbia

• “Umm El-Gouda” activity centre

  Orabi Street, Kafr El-Zayat — Gharbia

• “Bedayet Amal” activity centre

  El-Bahr Street, Kafr El-Zayat — Gharbia

• “Yabqa El-Athar” activity centre

  Tanta — Gharbia

• El-Salam district centre

  Tanta — Gharbia

• Sadat City premises

  Sadat City — Menoufia

Who we work with

The Foundation’s archive documents actual cooperation with each of the bodies listed here.

• Ministry of Social Solidarity

  Supervising authority

• Ministry of Education

  Partner on innovation and disability projects

• General Authority for Cultural Palaces

  Partner on cultural events and camps

• State Information Service

  Partner on awareness programmes

• Misr El-Kheir Foundation

  Institutional excellence grant

• Makka Foundation — Abshway, Qutour

  Cooperation protocol and sensory integration room

• El-Orman Association — Tanta branch

  Cooperation in civil society work

• Teacher Academy

  Training partnership

• RST University

  Academic partnerships

• Academy of Scientific Research

  Delivery of thinking and innovation programmes

• Ministry of Youth and the Development Services Centre

  Youth development and employment programmes

• National Council for Childhood

  Childhood programmes

In memoriam

• The poet Maher Nasr

  A founder of the Egyptian Foundation for Development and Quality, he died on 20 October 2020. The Foundation dedicates its charitable and development work to him; its registered office is his house in El-Delgamon.

• Prof. Magdy Abdel Wahab Qasem

  Head of the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education. The Foundation publishes his writing on quality within its education-quality programme.