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About Us

Our Mission
Officially registered in 2004, the Spirit of Youth Association works to educate and empower youth through learning opportunities related to sustaining entrepreneurial recycling businesses and also advocates the causes of the garbage collector’s community in their integration into the formal sector of solid waste management. We are dedicated to empowering marginalized children and youth to improve their environment through playing constructive roles in their communities.

Main Objectives:
 To offer programs, projects, and activities focused on the environmental and educational aspects of maintaining businesses and increasing income;

 To improve the environment of particularly impoverished communities by spreading the concept and the practice of waste segregation (organic vs.  non-organic)  at the source in local neighborhoods of Greater Cairo zone;

 To further enhance the projects and expertise of the association beyond the community of garbage collectors in Manshiyet Nasr;

 To further develop the association into a learning organization that continuously improves and builds its institutional capacities as well as the skills of its human resources;

 To build the capacity of the Zabaleen by advocating for their integration into the formal waste management sector in Egypt;

 To provide awareness and primary health care services to children, youth and women in marginalized communities, assisting them to obtain access to free governmental medical services;

 To offer children and youth working in particularly hazardous conditions alternative and safe work environments related to their professions.

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