SDGs Goal #1 No Poverty by Nour Anwar

Statistics gathered from online research

nourhesham21 — 2018-03-20 13:22:39 UTC

-Minimum wage in Egypt is 1200 L.E.
-The poverty line is 800 L.E monthly as of 2017.
-27.8% of the population are below the poverty line (almost 29 million people).
-The Egyptian population has reached 104.2 million in 2017.
-Unemployment rate is 13.2% and Internet users represent 31.7% of the population.
-32% of adults are obese in Egypt (2016) and 7% of children under the age of 5 are underweight (2014).

Debtors Insights

nourhesham21 — 2018-03-20 13:22:52 UTC

My sister had her bachelor project done on debtors and she interviewed several female debtors. She conducted her interviews in the form of recordings and I heard them as part of my empathy research. This is what I gathered:

Naga'a Oon

nourahmedafifi — 2018-03-22 06:46:37 UTC

Problems in Naga'a Oon

-Lack of clean water
-Lack of safe housing (no roofs or floors)
-Children are malnourished due to lack of food variety

-Unemployment
-Sickness due to lack of health services

INSIGHTS OF WHAT IS GOING IN AL-DARB AL-AHMAR & Hay Al-Zabaleen!!

omarlotfy — 2018-03-23 19:20:30 UTC

On Wednesday 21^st of March, I have been on a walk in Al-Darb Al-Ahmar & Hay Al-Zabaleen documenting (by taking a picture for whom I have talked to) and asking random people about their lives and how can they find for themselves a life within such circumstances; shortage of food, unhygienic atmosphere, dirty water, lack of the infrastructure, clustered houses, and many other things!

NADIA

omarlotfy — 2018-03-23 20:36:50 UTC

Nadia, the butcher lady who owns a qahwa and a butchery. She owned the butchery after the death of her husband 6 years after their marriage. She's a mother of four girls, she is an illiterate woman, but she educated her girls and she raised them up, and now the four of them are married. Despite the circumstances that she has been living with and through, she would prefer staying in this bubble and never get exposed to the outside, because she sees that she wont fit in, and no one will accept her for who she is; but she wishes for nothing but seeing her bubble more hygienic, drink clean water, breath fresh air, and a place where she can buy medicine, and see doctors if anyone is sick.

SALSABEEL

omarlotfy — 2018-03-23 20:50:51 UTC

Salsabeel, the kid who knits and sell her stuff to help the family with their income. She had an elder brother, but he passed away because of an infection, and gave her a doll that had been with her for the past 6 years till now. She kept on blaming herself for not helping in saving her brother, and she wished at that time for the presence of any doctor or a clinic around to help him out, but their was none around. She wishes for nothing but seeing her bubble with a clinic to see doctors if anyone got sick.

AMM MAGDI

omarlotfy — 2018-03-23 21:13:25 UTC

Amm Magdi a 93 years old blind man, who lost his eyesight after his wife's death 33 years ago, and he owns a cement shop which helps him gain his living. Some of the people who is living their used to make fun of him and tell the people not to buy from him anything or they will get infected, and thats because of the spots in his face, but they are actually harmless. He was also raised in Al-Darb Al-Ahmar, and he said that nowadays Al-Darb is in its worst shapes, and he wishes to see it as it was before.

OTHMAN

omarlotfy — 2018-03-23 21:21:36 UTC

Othman, this is a happy picture of him, a deaf man who his wife and kids passed away in a terrible accident. He is a joker their, he helps people in anything they want, fixing, cooking, delivering things, and anything literally that crosses your mind. He prefers staying in his bubble for the rest of his life, and he would do anything to make a better version of it.

SALMA & AHMED

omarlotfy — 2018-03-23 21:32:28 UTC

Salma and her brother Ahmed, these are two kids who lost their parents and she is the one who is raising him up all alone but with a little help from their neighborhood and the rest of her family, but she's working in a bakery shop in parallel with her school, she's her own brother's family. she wishes to have a place where she can be sheltered with her brother and with the people around her, and not going out of such bubble.

nourahmedafifi — 2018-03-24 15:23:25 UTC

Solutions

nourahmedafifi — 2018-03-24 15:35:10 UTC

-Initial investment from donations
-Rebuilding infrastructure (sanitation, clean water source, fixing housing)
-Supplying each home with food sources (goats for milk and chicken for eggs)
-Teaching them skills (women were taught sewing, Men farming)
-Building of a technical school to teach men
-Building hydro-banks over roofs to farm and grow greens
-Creating a mini-economy to have a self sustainable community

Problem statement

nourahmedafifi — 2018-03-24 15:50:54 UTC

-In What Way May We increase the skill set of poor people to give them more work options
-In What Way May We provide an affordable lifestyle for people below the poverty line
-In What Way May We help poor people have a sustainable source of income
-In What Way May We help poor communities in being independent of external donations
-In What Way May We provide basic necessities for a healthy life

Problem Statements

nourahmedafifi — 2018-03-24 16:01:24 UTC

HMW/IWWMW

In what way may we prevent the citizens of Al-Darb Al-Ahmar & Hay Al-Zabaleen
In what way may we prevent the unhygienic living
In what may we provide a good infrastructure
In what way may we let them get outside of their bubble and get exposed to the public

Menat Alla Elbanany

melbanany — 2018-03-24 16:31:14 UTC

Adham Assem

melbanany — 2018-03-24 16:34:51 UTC

GLOW
12 are dead and some people remained under the rubble of the building that collapsed in Manshiet Nasser.
With some help, we were able to deliver part of the medication needed and 60 meals.
There are critical cases in the hospitals, and others lost their parents. People remain in the street in need for food, clothes and medications. We are now collecting data regarding each individual case, and we are following up with those in the hospital. Those people cannot afford the medication nor the ability to find somewhere else to stay.

3al Raseef

We visit homeless children in "zelzal" on a weekly basis, they know us by name and they wait for us to come every week, we give them the lessons we think are necessary as try to provide whatever they need, like providing shoes and other wearables.

Help

Help Club started collecting donations to equip Al-Gameya Al-Shareaia hospital with three medical incubators needed to save many newborns whose lives are threatened by the unavailability and unaffordable cost of the medical incubators. We have successfully been able to provide one incubator that saves the life of around one child weekly.

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Stackable Exo Emergency Shelters

-Each unit costs $5000
-Each unit shelters 4 people
-Each unit has electricity and air-conditioning
-The exo is easily transported as it is stackable
-Each unit takes only 5 minutes to be set up.

Nour Afifi

melbanany — 2018-03-24 16:39:28 UTC

Nour Anwar

melbanany — 2018-03-24 16:40:59 UTC

Omar Lotfy

melbanany — 2018-03-24 16:42:20 UTC

melbanany — 2018-03-24 16:47:02 UTC

Security Guards

melbanany — 2018-03-24 21:26:00 UTC

Who works?

Students working part time in order to stay in university
Young men (mostly married) working 2 jobs in order to help out with the house or start a family
retired father working so that his daughters "may5ademoosh f beyoot el nas"
Educated men that can't find a job (or were laid off by previous employers) and were offered the job of being a security guard at the gym and therefore took it despite having degrees in commerce, politics, history... etc.

What causes poverty?

Not finding jobs that suit your qualifications
having to work 2 jobs, that will eventually lead to sickness and god knows who will feed the family then
Girls being harassed when they work at stores or anywhere and therefore causing the men in the family to work double time
when the head of the family (the father), the burden passes on to the wife and children. If he wasn't an employee high up in the hierarchy then the pensions aren't good enough for the family, and even as young boys we have to go to work so that our mothers do not have to work everywhere (mayetbahdeloosh fel shaware3). Only the strong ones like us actually make it through school let alone graduate with university degrees.

Shahinda El Alfy (Fundraising Manager at Misr El Kheir foundation)

nourhesham21 — 2018-03-24 21:27:08 UTC

L-poverty is correlated to hunger (they sign contracts without knowing what they entail)

-They need help medically, or socially (to support daughter's marriage), they need help supporting projects, education wise and daily expenses.
-Their cases are looked at to know whether they are 'honest' or not and based on that, Misr El Kheir helps them.
-Stakeholders are lawyers because they defend them in court.
-They have the skills of knitting and they sell them to get themselves out of the situation of being in debt.

Nawal Mostafa (Founder of Sageenat foundation)

nourhesham21 — 2018-03-24 21:33:16 UTC

-The stereotype of being a criminal (even though they didn't do anything wrong) follows them everywhere and that is why they can't get jobs.
-money is the core of the issue
-all people are aware of poor people but a small percentage only does something to help them.
-the economic situation is a main problem.

Fatma Radwan (Trainer at Sageenat foundation)

nourhesham21 — 2018-03-24 21:36:01 UTC

-They have very useful skills that could be important for their survival, but they need too improve them.
-Society treats them badly and most people have no idea who 'debtors' are or what are they a result of.

Amany Youssef (Debtor)

nourhesham21 — 2018-03-24 21:37:36 UTC

-Essential needs are not being met
-They usually have large families and can't feed them all
-No one supports them and especially after they go to jail, they are considered to bring shame but it is not their fault.
-Amany's friends of 13 years betrayed her and that is why she got sent to jail. This has resulted in her losing trust in everybody and especially; society.

Problem Statements

nourhesham21 — 2018-03-24 21:41:12 UTC

-In what way might we use their skills efficiently?
-In what way might we provide them their basic and essential needs?
-In what way might we get society to treat them better and diminish the stereotype of 'prisoner'?
-In what way might we get society involved in helping them and get them to regain their trust in society?
-In what way might we provide a decent living for them without having money as an issue?
-In what way might we help share their stories and raise awareness about them?

Maids and Cooks

melbanany — 2018-03-24 21:50:16 UTC

Despite interviewing non-Egyptians as well as Egyptians only the local ones are included as they are the center-point of the issues we intend to tackle.

Who works?

A girl who started working for the same family her mothered worked for because her mother is too old to work, they pay well and they've always been good to the family
Widows/ divorcees supporting up to 10 family members including children, dead husband's parents/ sisters and the wives and/or children of their unemployed sons

What causes poverty?

Teenage/ young women spend all their money for preparations of her marriage even if she doesn’t have any idea who she’s marrying yet, everything is so expensive that sometimes she might not have enough money to make it all the way home on public transportation and would often have to walk very long distances.
Despite being payed well, sometimes you need more money to be able to live comfortably and I could earn more than I do know but I don’t know wat that family is like and how they’ll treat me, at least I know the one I work for now.
No matter how much I get payed it’s never enough, feeding 11 mouths isn’t easy after all.
Despite having graduated from academies (ma3ahed), my sons both can’t find work, so I don’t just support my children but also my sons’ wives and children.

Problem Statment

adhamasem — 2018-03-25 12:21:14 UTC

-in what way could we provide jobs to those in poverty line
-in what way can we educate people of things that may lead to poverty ex: having many children
-in what way could we provide basic food to prevent hunger from those who live in poverty.

TVET in Egypt

the_sosman — 2018-03-29 06:47:25 UTC

TVET UNEVOC

the_sosman — 2018-03-29 06:48:49 UTC

Main Problem Statement and Prototype

melbanany — 2018-03-29 07:11:25 UTC

Problem Statements

melbanany — 2018-04-18 23:24:09 UTC

In what way may we match qualified employees with suitable jobs that make use of their skills and develops them
In what way may we insure that the pensions children and spouses receive after the death of a family member is sufficient to provide for school and basic living needs.
In what way may we make girls able to earn enough money to afford all basics she needs as a bride (gehaz)
How may we find jobs for unskilled women who used to be dependent on someone but no longer are (divorcees and widows)
How may we create a safe environment for women of lower classes to work?