Success stories from Egypt: A look at HCI’s work with struggling micro business owners

Mohamed is a father of two daughters aged 17 and 10. He has two prosthetic feet and he is now the owner of an expanded shop that sells spare parts and accessories for three-wheel motorcycles also called “tok-tok” commonly used for the transport of people and goods. Nagah is a 65 year old widow suffering [...]

Emergency Medical Relief Assistance to the People of Libya

The recent turmoil in Libya pushed the healthcare system beyond breaking point; many hospitals, clinics and ambulances were destroyed, others were not sufficiently equipped to cope with the demand for medical care and medical supplies were running out. As the events evolved the hospitals were overwhelmed by the large number of casualties. According to official [...]

HCI’s New Children’s Clinic in The Nahr el Bared Refugee Camp

In the first few weeks since it opened its doors, 280 underprivileged children under the age of fourteen received access to health services at HCI’s recently launched Children’s Clinic in the Nahr el Bared camp. The clinic is managed by our local partners the National Institution of Social Care & Vocational Training organization. HCI fully [...]

Building Bridges and Bolstering Pluralism through the Honoring of Traditions

Over a hundred Iraqi and non-Iraqi children, Christian and Muslim, from disadvantaged backgrounds were brought together by HCI in Jordan for a gift distribution party on Christmas day. Similar to HCI’s activities during Eid El-Adha and the Holy month of Ramadan, this activity encouraged these children coming from very different environments to share an exceptional [...]

Supporting Young Entrepreneurs in the Middle East, Case in Point Sudan and Egypt

Entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly accepted as an important means and a useful alternative for income generation in young people, particularly in the developing world. As traditional job-for-life career paths become rarer, youth entrepreneurship is regarded as an additional way of integrating youth into the labor market and overcoming poverty. Throughout our long history of working [...]

Honoring and Celebrating Community Traditions: Ramadan and Adahi 2011

Each year HCI makes it a point to honor and celebrate the traditions of the communities we serve; understanding the culture and living conditions of the local communities we work with is part of HCI’s philosophy while serving these communities, especially at times such as Ramadan and Eid Al Adha when great importance is placed [...]

Supporting Marginalized Children through Positive Engagement in Lebanon

For decades HCI has been promoting interaction and the sharing of ideas and resources among children in marginalized communities and their peers from different areas as a “discrete” tool that eventually leads to greater understanding of the other, which addresses the bigger headlines of coexistence, tolerance, pluralism and nonviolence. Using its years of cumulative experience [...]

Undergraduate Support; HCI Supports University Students in Rural Lebanon

About 5 years ago it came to HCI’s and its partners’ attention that many of the high school graduates of Lebanese villages were dropping out of university despite the fact that many of them had great educational potential and very good grades, because they were unable to afford the tuition fees. Many of these students [...]

Helping Young Disadvantaged Cancer Patients in Egypt

Human Concern International has been active in the universal cause of raising awareness and funds to combat cancer, which remains one of the leading causes of death. Now, we are continuing our effort by supporting Egypt’s largest and most effective children’s cancer hospital for the second time, The Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt (57357). In Egypt, [...]

HCI’s Medical Shipment makes it to Libya

HCI’s latest intervention in Libya is timely as the conflict in Libya spreads and the number of casualties and people needing medical help has increased in recent days. HCI is proud to announce that a shipment of life saving medical supplies put together in Canada has reached the port of Benghazi and is waiting to [...]