Nov 23 First Visit to Resala

 

We visited an NGO, Resala, today that was very interesting in the scope of what they do. They started in 2000 with the concept of helping people develop humanitarian services that they were interested in. From one small site, they now have 9 and 30-40 different ventures to help the poor. They do not charge anything and most of the people here are volunteers.

One project they do is take used clothes, resort them, and give them to the poor neighborhoods. 
They also take medications that are not expired and sort them to redistribute to the poor. We were told that there is a doctor that supervises and trains the volunteers.
They teach and tutor the blind.
They work with and train the disabled.
This is their library to help students learn.
This is their deaf class.
They also train women to create crafts to sell. They tried to insist that we take one of the crafts home to remember them, but we negotiated to take this picture instead.
They are teaching youths computer skills.
This is their computer trainers and lab.

They have an orphanage for 10 disabled children. They have had these children since they were born. We were asked to to publish their pictures, but they were very disabled and cute little ones.
We are on the outside of this Resala site. It is 10 stories high and they have 8 others in Egypt. We are going to continue to speak with them and, if we can, we would love to be able to help them in some way. They were extremely friendly.




















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