The gift of cattle is virtually priceless for the poorest of the poor. A cow brings economic opportunity and nutrition to families in need. Most families that are granted a cow are female headed households.
Cost for pregnant cow: $700 . Donate now
Many village homes in Egypt lack plumbing, leaving the residents without clean water. Your donation will provide a family with a connection to a clean water supply.
By giving families the opportunity to be well nourished, you are helping to improve their health and ability to work, and the mental development of their children.
Simple, in floor latrines bring dignity, safety and better health to people who would otherwise have to relieve themselves out of doors, which is unsafe and spreads disease. Without a latrine in the home, women are forced to wait until sundown.
Sheep and goats generate economic opportunities to extremely poor families. Through your gift, families are able to milk, use the wool and breed the animals. This is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Support BLACD’s efforts to prevent children from resorting to Quarry Work The founder of BLACD, Mr. Maher Boshra, was the first director of a civil society organization to care for these children by establishing the Wadi El-Nil Association for the Protection of Quarry Workers in 2000. Interventions have been implemented by the association to improve the health and living circumstances of quarry children and to liberate them from the dangerous work in the quarries. Activities include raising awareness of children and their families of children’s rights, providing vocational training to children to give them skills to work in unhazardous sectors, offering loans to families of child workers to start small income generating projects in order to prevent their children from seeking work in the quarries, supporting children’s school attendance, distributing games and organizing sport and leisure time activities for children to allow them to enjoy their right to play and rest, as well as providing medical check-ups and medicines to counteract and prevent diseases related to the eyes, throat, lungs and bones.