Tag Archive | "Cairo"

A Week Of Sharing (and more!) At Friends

This week has seen Friends Board Members, Program Directors, International Coordinators, managers and staff from across the world gathering together in Phnom Penh at the FI HQ building for our annual sharing meeting. This is a rare opportunity for us all to get together, to share our achievement from the previous year and to look [...]

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‘Don’t Tell My Mother!’

Friends-International CYTI Alliance technical advisors travel the globe offering support and advice to our partner organizations in the Alliance. As he comes to the end of his time working for FI, former CYTI coordinator Pierre tells us of a day in his working life, the last one of 3,287 spent with FI, full of (amongst [...]

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Oustez Boulboul wa Ousteza Toutou or the story of Mister Willy and Miss Hoo-hah

A  story from Cairo by Pierre, our International CYTI Alliance Coordinator. Friends and its partners work with street children and marginalized youth providing a wide range of educational activities such as literacy and numeracy, vocational training and education on local culture and traditions. Life skills education is a very important part of these activities. Friends defines [...]

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First day in Cairo

After a long, long trip we arrived in Cairo where Pierre and Mohamed were waiting patiently. We showered, ate an interesting Egyptian sandwich and refreshed with a lovely mango juice. Taking the subway from the very famous Tarhir square we headed in the direction of the Salem center of FACE For Children in Need*. We [...]

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Seb’s Teddy Bear

From: Pierre Cairo, Egypt I’ve now been to Cairo five times to work with FACE Egypt, our local CYTI network partner.  We’ve been helping the FACE team for a year now, assisting them to start up their new project for street children and youth. It’s very exciting and interesting work, the team is progressing very [...]

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How to Become a Scorpion

From: Sebastien Cairo, Egypt Coming from Phnom Penh, via Amsterdam (in winter) and arriving in Cairo is quite a culture shock. A overcrowded city of 20 million and 4 million cars (as a man explained to me as we were trying to cross a road and nearly died 6 times), magnificent end of XIX century [...]

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Training in Egypt

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