Vision, Mission & Impact
Namaa' Vision and Mission:
Namaa' aims at creating a Social Entrepreneur for a good Society. We believe that a Social Entrepreneur is a proactive person who is able to work with others towards having a good social impact on the society. We do this through equipping social entrepreneurs with the adequate knowledge, skills and values that they need to be empowered as social change agents.
Inspiration
Namaa is a youth led initiative that was originally instigated by young activists who attended the GTZ Cairo summer School 2005. The program was initially developed to fill the a gap between the needs of organizations, institutions and NGOs working in development on one hand and the qualifications of young people interested in contributing to developmental efforts in Egypt on the other. However, this was not the end; rather it was the start for a group of young people that was quite motivated to rearticulate the necessity of associating the developmental process with certain values that would assure the sustainability and authenticity of this process. Eventually, the utmost target that all the initiative members aim to is that all the developmental effort would contribute to a real renaissance of Egypt.
When?
Starting from 2005 till present.
What?
There are 4 tools that enable us to achieve our vision:
Projects
Workshops
Where?
Egypt.
Who?
Egyptians.
Partners
"Program for Civilization Studies and Dialogue of Cultures”, “Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University”, "Konrad Adenauer Foundation", “German Technical Cooperation”, “Ashoka”, “HEPCA”, “My way”, “Mo’men”, “Juhayna”.
Impact
- Around 90 young Egyptians became socially motivated and most of them became civically engaged. They became more aware of their responsibilities towards their country and they learned that they should dare to dream of a better Egypt. They also believe that they are adequately empowered to fulfill that dream if they have enough passion and persistence.
- Summer school graduates have applied what they’ve learned through their experience in Namaa to the projects/initiatives that they were already engaged in. Moreover, some of them even applied them in their professional work experience.
- A large network has been established through Tawasul salon between the initiative and other sister initiatives and individual activists in the different aspects of the development field
- A virtual development library that includes full documentation of the project (video and audio recordings, manuals for each course and Academic curriculum on CDs) was established.
