Ezbet El Walda
One scheme that Lafarge Egypt celebrated in Cairo, Helwan district, in cooperation with 3 NGOs; is a literacy program and small enterprise initiative designed to help women read, write and gain practical skills to allow them to start their own home-based businesses. A sewing center was added to the program, which increased its success to the extent that local clothes manufacturers offered the graduates, working on the project, jobs. At the end of the project, 7140 women benefited from the two programs.
