Life Makers Foundation

Life Makers is a non-profit organization aims to the DEVELOPMENT of our society through empowering youth by raising and strengthening their capabilities. Life Makers Foundation works in the fields of health, employment, education and drugs through its main projects that include: 1. Improving lives (Insaan) – supporting a poor family whose children have dropped out of school. The family is supported in setting up a micro-grant business with the help of a team of trained volunteers who also support the family socially, economically, educationally, and health-wise. 2. Future Guardians – project aiming to protect the community from the dangers of smoking, drugs and addiction through increasing health awareness throughout targeted sectors of the society, specifically the youth and students. The project carried out various activities and campaigns over a time span of six years. The project was carried out in partnership with Mentor - UN Office for Fighting Drugs and Crime, Dubai Police as well as several local companies. 3. Our Health – aims to increase healthcare awareness in the society about contagious and non-contagious diseases such as: arthritis hepatitis, bird flu, and obesity, and high blood pressure disease, cancer, and tuberculosis. The project is being carried out in partnership with WHO and the Egyptian Ministry of Health. 4. Eradicating Illiteracy project (Al-Alm Quwa) - In partnership with Vodafone we educated over 120,000 illiterate adults over a 12 month period across 9 governorates of Egypt. We used over 15000 trained volunteers and created our own curriculum. 5. The Village Project – the project aims to merge aid and development activities with healthcare and anti-drug and anti-smoking awareness campaigns. The project achieves its goal by organizing camps for Life Makers in village areas or shanty towns, which is aimed to encourage the local residents to develop their communities by encouraging them to volunteer.