Reproductive Health Egypt Project #56073

10 Women Friendly Public Health Centers in Egypt

by Shamseya for Innovative Community Healthcare Solutions

Project Report | Dec 29, 2024
Impact and Innovation you made possible in 2024

By Ayman Sabae | Shamseya CEO

Field work in Qena

As 2024 closes to an end, we seize this chance to give you highlights of our impact, innovation and people-centered solutions that you made possible through your support.

With solutions offered to governments, service providers, local, national and international organizations and the general population, our 2024 was a year where the dedication, innovation and hard work of our problem-solvers were put to the test in the most diverse and challenging projects.
Witness highlights and stories of how our work is improving the quality, accessibility, effectiveness and affordability of healthcare services provided to people in Egypt, the region and beyond.

From its first day, back in 2019, the Women Friendly Services Project has been working with the goal of securing the required support for reproductive health service providers to support them in offering acceptable services for all women.

In 2024, the project expanded to not only work with service providers, but to include other actors who are in direct relation with women and girls when it comes to Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Through collaborations with local NGOs, we've been able to provide support and guidance to young girls who have been subjected to violence through a tailored psychosocial program only for these girls. This program offers psychological support as well as art therapy sessions to girls in marginalised areas including refugees.

We believe that every woman at every age deserves to be heard. Through numerous partnership with government entities, local NGOs and development partners, 2024 has been an eye opening year for ground-breaking ideas and interventions to be carried out in the upcoming years.

For 2025, we are calling up our work even further, through a full set of large scale interventions in Beheira. We are also producing the first of its kind social playing game to tackle essential topics related to teenagers and how to deal with the emotional rollercoaster they experience during their teenage years.

I finally invite you to take a look at highlights and stories of how our work is improving the quality, accessibility, effectiveness and affordability of healthcare services provided to people in Egypt. You can check our Impact and Innovation Portfolio for 2024 by clicking here.

We thank you and wish you, your family and loved ones all the health, wellbeing and prosperity in 2025

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Dec 10, 2024
Towards a Brighter Future for Young Girls

By Chaden Moataz | Projects Manager

In light of the 16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence, we are happy to share with you that we have piloted a project specifically for young girls who have been subjected to any kind of violence.

The story began with a one day activity in collaboration with a local NGO in Greater Cairo, this day focused on art therapy and psychosocial awareness for girls under 18 who have been subjected to GBV (physical or psychological). The insights of this day turned out to be amazing enough to encourage us to design a full support program for these girls and include more girls from different areas.

“Tashbeek” in Arabic means "Connection", this project has been born from an essential need for help and support for young girls who have been subjected to any kind of violence and don’t know where to go or what to do. In collaboration with psychoanalysts and art therapists, we designed this program to help these girls to identify their emotions and learn how to live with trauma.

We successfully piloted this project with three different local NGOs in Cairo for more than 28 girls including refugees!

We are still rolling out the program with a last group in this pilot, and the outcomes already are extremely encouraging. Hearing from the girls that no one has ever heard them or helped them to go through difficult times, and how this program has been eye opening for them, is priceless.

It doesn’t end here, Tashbeek works on referral as well, to help severe cases to get the suitable medical and psychological support. In collaboration with the local NGOs , we are working with them on an orientation for the mental health services available for girls and how they can get use from it. This shall help in maintaining the outcomes of the program and the sustainability of the impact.

It doesn’t end here, with your support we can scale up the intervention to include more young girls who need support.

With 2024 coming to an end, we thank you enormously for your continuous support and we look forward to having more achievements for a better and healthy future for women in Egypt.

Stay tuned for the testimonials from the girls in our next newsletter!

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Aug 13, 2024
Upper Egypt is becoming more Women Friendly

By Chaden Moataz | Projects Manager

As promised and shared with you previously, we successfully implemented the Women Friendly Services project in Upper Egypt.

We successfully delivered a Physicians' training in 6 days, with 4 days dedicated to on-the-job training. And another Nurses' training extended to 5 days, including 2 days of on-the-job training.

The training programs were successfully delivered to 37 medical providers nominated by the Ministry in Qena governorate, structured as follows:

12 physicians representing various units across the districts underwent a comprehensive training program spanning six days. The initial two days comprised sessions covering topics such as reproductive health, family planning, and Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Subsequently, the physicians were assigned to three primary care centers for four days of on-the-job training. This practical component aimed to complement their training programs and acquire approval from the Ministry to provide family planning services to beneficiaries.

Also, 25 nurses from different sectors participated in a focused training program spanning five days. The first three days sessions covered essential areas including reproductive health, family

planning, and GBV, providing nurses with vital knowledge skills to enhance their service delivery in family planning. This was followed by two days of on-the-job training on how to assess beneficiaries and provide them with counseling through role plays and practical training on vital signs measurements and breast examination for breast cancer screening.

An Instagram broadcast was created to provide insightful and accessible information to women and girls and to increase interaction with beneficiaries, especially teenage girls and providing a platform for communication and access to necessary knowledge.

Finally, a collaboration with a gamification expert was developed to create the concept and initial game ideas for the first of its kind game on reproductive health.

We are thankful for your continuous support and we cannot wait to share with you our next steps!

Stay tuned.

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