My Dear Daughter Project
Qift, Qena
My Dear Daughter Project
What a girl receives today helps shape the woman she will become and the mother she may be tomorrow. The love, acceptance, security, and confidence she experiences during her formative years shape how she sees herself, how she interacts with others, and her ability, one day, to build a family grounded in those same values.
The My Dear Daughter Project supports girls during this important stage, helping them develop psychologically and socially, strengthen their abilities and self-confidence, and enhance their roles within their families and communities.
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Where the project works
Services are provided in Qift District and Qift village in Qena Governorate, for older and younger sisters, girls’ families, and the communities surrounding them.
Key Project Results
- More than 100 direct beneficiaries, including older and younger sisters.
- More than 84 educational and behavioral mentoring sessions.
- 24 monthly meetings for older sisters, plus more than 25 meetings for project teams and coordinators.
- Improvements in educational performance, leadership and analytical skills, and self-confidence.
- Outstanding older sisters supported other female students in tutoring centers.
- Noticeable changes in financial behavior, saving habits, and responsibility.
- Stronger values of generosity, respect, honesty, freedom, responsibility, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence.
Main Project Activities
- Mentoring sessions: individual and group learning and support between older and younger sisters.
- Training workshops on psychological and emotional development, financial literacy and saving, and the use of artificial intelligence in education.
- Events and camps, including the Back-to-School Carnival and the Children’s Day Carnival.
- Community participation through meetings for mothers and guardians, and roundtables for officials.
- Community initiatives and recreational and cultural trips.
- Literacy assessments and ongoing evaluation of girls’ psychological and behavioral development.
Implementation Partners
- Caritas Egypt
- Coptic Orphans
- Meftah El-Hayah Association
- Farshout Association
- El-Rezeikat Association
- Asfun Association
- Upper Egypt Association
- Shabab Masr Association
- Partner local schools
Main funder: Coptic Orphans.
Help Her Grow with Confidence
The acceptance a girl receives today, the confidence she develops, and the words she hears about herself are not fleeting things. She carries them with her as she grows. With your support, we can help a girl grow up feeling safer and more confident. You can help create these opportunities through your time, expertise, or support.
