Girls saved from Female Genital Mutilation participate in making a video for an awareness raising song about this harmful custom

One of 4000 women who received ID cards thanks to BLACD efforts

A woman is able to keep her child clean and healthy thanks to piped water to her house

Women learn to read for the first time and get an opportunity to discuss issues of great importance to them

Executive Director, Mr. Maher Boshra, receives funding on behalf of BLACD to bring water and sanitation to houses in poor villages from one of the Association’s esteemed partners

A local TV channel interviews the Chairman of one of the Fishermen’s Associations established by BLACD about the problems of the fisher folk communities

Members of a Community Based Organization plan actions to improve their community after finishing making the first available map of their village

A wife of a fisherman is able to share in gaining family income after receiving a small loan to start a micro project

Coordinators of literacy classes give feedback on a poster developed by BLACD to promote equal participation of men and women in taking care of the house and children

Players in a village football team wear shirts to show their objection to Female Genital Mutilation

A lawyer explains about the legal rights of women

A local theatre group receives training on how to integrate human rights messages in their plays

Children talk to a Think Twice Volunteer about Human Rights

Members of Fishermen’s Associations established by BLACD learn how to run their organizations to improve their communities

Muslim and Christian religious leaders speak to villagers about Female Genital Mutilation during an awareness raising campaign

Midwives who used to carry out Female Genital Mutilation listen to a religious leader explain that the custom is not supported by religion

Think Twice volunteers teach children about Human Rights through playing the board game “The ladder and the snake”

Religious leaders receive training on how to combat violence against women

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BLACD exchanges experience with other organizations working with housing rights

Think Twice volunteers use puppet theatre as a means to raise children’s awareness of their rights

Local building workers receive training on how to construct safe houses using environmental materials

Young men listen to a medical doctor explain the harms of Female Genital Mutilation

Villagers plant trees after their elected Local Popular Council arranged for garbage to be removed from the streets

A group of beneficiaries of BLACD projects join the Global Stand Against Poverty

Fishermen learn about the harmful consequences of incorrect fishing methods

BLACD records the impact of clean water and healthy latrines on the lives of people for a documentary film about the Water and Sanitation project

Men and children carry out dangerous work in Minya’s limestone quarries. For their sake BLACD established the Wadi El-Nil Association for the Care of Quarry Workers

Girls carry out an unprecedented march against Female Genital Mutilation in their village

BLACD meets with poor villagers to discuss how their houses can be made more safe and healthy

A child is happy that the family has a sanitary latrine inside the house