هاجر صالح، محافظة بني سويف، مشروع إكسسوارات هاند ميد

لمياء مختار، محافظة بني سويف، مشروع جاليري فنون هاند ميد

آلاء حمدي، محافظة بنى سويف

أمنية عصمت، قدوة تك، بني سويف

طلعت عبد الفتاح خليفة، مشروع تربية الحمام (زغاليل أونلاين)

قصة إنشاء موقع الهيئة العامة للثروة السمكية

Farid Menjood & E-Marketing for El Borg Restaurant

Clean Advertising

Whom from us is not attracted by the advertising of a product or service in the streets and squares of the country; but sometimes we are harmed by these advertisements, or, more precisely, by the style of advertising, whether by the writing on the walls or by sticking posters on the doors of shops or walls, which renders our country in its worst form.

In this way, the two siblings Omar and Rania Mahmoud Omar thought of an innovative way of advertising that preserves the environment through small displays that can be placed in all places frequented by people (such as supermarkets, mega malls and others). These screens are the new and clean technological alternative to the primitive ways of advertising which causes environmental pollution. The idea of the project is that these screens act as means of advertising and provide guidance and new information for community awareness in various fields, whether traffic, health, environment, etc.

The two siblings began to work on the project despite their limited resources, but they insisted on continuing and overcoming all the obstacles that stand before them. After the sibling's discovery of the YSEP program, the training they received was aimed at providing services to help young people implement work plans for their projects, and how to achieve sustainability of their project.

As this project is considered a community demand for its importance in preserving the environment, the two brothers applied the administrative skills that they received as part of their training to overcome the obstacles facing them in the project and then work on expanding and spreading the project services throughout the Republic.

Call for coexistence

"We are an important player in the society. We represent more than 10% of them. If we are neglected, we will be a reason in the halting of the development cycle; therefore, society should not neglect our role and work to find ways and means to communicate with us."

This is the language of people with disabilities, especially those who are deaf. Based on this important role, it was thought by the organizers of this project to contribute in one way or another to the development of the educational process for people with disabilities from the deaf to find solutions and technological mechanisms to enable and develop the abilities of people with disabilities to cope with the age of technology and facilitate communication with them, which ultimately helps to improve the educational services provided to them.

The project offers a range of integrated technological services, the first of its kind in Egyptian society. These services are as diverse as:
• Providing an electronic center that makes it easy to find out which phone number or address the disabled person can access (for the blind in Braille on mobile and websites, for the deaf and dumb through a specialized website).
• A talking e-book that records texts in audible electronic form for the blind.
• Color reader for the blind.
• Speech and sign language for the blind.
• A book on how to deal with people with disabilities.
• A smart mouse to deal with people with physical disabilities.
• Talking calculator for the blind.

Given the importance of this project, we do not have the technology and communications equipment to test the new programs and applications, we also lack partnerships with major telecommunications companies, as such we are seeking to sign a contract with Telecom Egypt to establish an internal center with the special technical requirements corresponding with the needs of the project.

Qolha for Helping People with Disabilities

There is a significant group in society which needs our cooperation and encouragement and hard work to continue to feel their role, status and impact within the community; namely deaf and blind, they themselves consider their disability a test from God on patience which challenges them to find ways to excel. But some people deal with this group as incapable of providing any benefit to society and stand as a challenge in the face of their creative energies, although it would be more beneficial to exploit these energies in building and developing society.

As such a group of young people (Karim, Ali, Ahmed, Islam) have tried to implement a project to help deaf and blind by providing computer and mobile software to serve this sector of the community by using sign language as a method of communication and understanding with the rest of the community, the project was launched under the name (Qolha).

The project works in an innovative sector where it specializes in the design and implementation of software that helps this segment of the population; furthermore, the product has no counterpart or competitor in the Egyptian and Arab markets.

Believing in the importance of this service to people with disabilities, the group joined the YSEP competition for entrepreneurial training, which helped them plan the project better and develop a strategy that will enable them to achieve sustainability.

However, the project while deemed very important is still in its infancy, and thus requires the coordination of all stakeholders on the issues of people with disabilities to help develop the product to make it more suitable to the needs of this category.

Abu Shrouf’s Center for Traditional Handicrafts

This is a story that revolves around a girl called Asmaa Mohamed Youssif who lives in Abu Shrouf village; 30 kilometers away from Siwa. This village is very small and poor. Around 850 people live there. Most children especially girls, from the age of 16, are prevented from going to schools as vocational, commercial and general high schools are located in Siwa and traditions prohibits girls from going to places outside the village. In the morning, Abu Shrouf's people are isolated from the outside world; they don't watch T.V or listen to radios, not because they are working, but because electricity only works at night.

Surrounded by these unfortunate circumstances, Asmaa strived towards changing her future. Despite the fact that she grew up in a large family (24 members) that is very strict towards traditions, she insisted on completing her education in Siwa. In the beginning, her parents were against that but the strength of her deliberation eventually made them give in. In Siwa, she joined the commercial high school. She used to travel around 60 kilometers every day until she graduated and had her diploma. But that was not enough to satisfy her ambition, she wanted to gain more skills and knowledge, so, she took computer classes at Siwa Association for Community Development and Environmental Protection. There she learnt everything about computers and was offered a job as illiteracy eradication teacher to educate others in her village. By this, she was able to meet her needs as well as that of her family.

However, she looked at her job not as source of money but as a way to better women's status. In her attempt to do so, she raised women's awareness on the importance of education. As a result, large number of the village female inhabitants joined the illiteracy eradication classes. After teaching many classes, she found that teaching women how to read and write is not enough if there are no employment opportunities available for them. After thorough thinking, she came up with ideas on how to empower those women and enrich her poor village; one of these ideas was to establish a center for traditional handicrafts. She communicated this idea to her managers who adapted her initiative and helped seek funds for such center. Right now, most women in her village work at this center, and consequently, the village became richer.

Nadia from her Small World to Entrepreneurship Horizon