37 Algalaa, Victoria
Alexandria
Alexandria Governorate
Egypt
- Arts
- Gender
- Heritage
- Human rights
- Youth and education
The organization consisted of a director, executive manager, general coordinator, financial officer, administrative officer, secretary, program coordinator, volunteers coordinator (with 2-4 volunteers) and logistic officer. Using this resource, we can implement projects by applying for open calls in the fields of art, handcrafts, women empowerment, and gender issues, such as the British Council, the Centre d'etude Alexandrines - CEAlex, the French Institute in Egypt, GIZ, Medico International, the Minority Right Group, the Mediterranean Women's Fund, and Torraha is also involved in a number of European Solidarity Corps projects and Erasmus+ projects. As of today, we have implemented 19 projects in various fields for community development and empowerment of women, youth, children, and refugees from different nationalities since the company was established in 2014. More details are available in the enclosed profile
Mission:
Empowering women socially and economically, while promoting opportunities for youth and children to create a space for dialogue and expression through creative means.
Objectives
Providing art as a space for dialogue, expression and inclusion of socially excluded groups in order to enable them to participate in formulating sustainable development priorities.
Generate training opportunities on creative practices to raise awareness in social environments that are less fortunate in accessing public services.
Develop partnerships, networks, and coordination at the local, regional, and international levels in order to enrich the programs with different visions and experiences related to global changes and the requirements of community compatibility with them.
Organizing awareness and advocacy campaigns that are necessary to create an environment stimulating innovation and creativity in order to integrate young artists into gender issues.
Field of work: Planning, implementing, and managing programs, training, and cultural spaces using art as a bridge to development, especially for those in need. Our main activities include art, social, and heritage projects.
Details concerning the implemented project are available in the enclosed profile
• Teamwork with diverse experiences from different backgrounds in cultural and developmental work, each one of them has participated according to his/her job in many national and international institutions, projects, and activities.
• A good track record of managing national and international volunteers -
• A team of local and international volunteers; Torraha has succeeded in obtaining accreditation as a partner in Erasmus+ program ,ESC
• Good networking with domestic and international partners
• Legal registration type: The institution is legally registered as a Limited Liability
• Company, which allows a wider margin of freedom in dealing with governmental interference.
• Torraha has a branch at Siwa Oasis that enables Torraha to implement projects concerned with heritage, crafts, gender, youth, and education within the oasis.
• Hedigda Camp is being developed as an artistic space to host artistic and cultural events in Siwa Oasis
our work' policy is based on the concept of "women to women support", and the empowerment of women contributes more to the well-being of society as a whole, and that the change in social attitude requires a cultural change, in addition to empowering women economically to achieve their financial independence. Torraha has realized the nature and size of its role in the local community, so it adopted the strategy of networking with other organizations and partners to be more effective in that context, for example, Torraha has carried out a project titled "My Right" in cooperation with the British Council to train 200 young people on the concept of citizenship and gender, the outputs of this project were 4 artistic initiatives to combat violence against women.
Also, Torraha has participated with "The New Woman Foundation" in projects related to domestic violence against women and unpaid domestic labor. Furthermore, Torraha has developed health awareness programs based on gender issues by using artistic means to allow the beneficiaries to express themselves and their own experiences. Torraha has also expanded its projects to include women of different nationalities because as observed, at the time when seeking asylum is imposing more restrictions on females, they were forced to leave their homes and their lives, meanwhile, they are facing an increased burden of adapting to new communities.
Torraha has implemented several vocational programs that targeted mainly women with initial experiences to consolidate and develop their competence to obtain job opportunities and sources of income for them - as well as prepare them to become training cadres.
Also, the involvement of young people was not limited to gender issues, but also extended to programs related to the possession of tools for free expression, Torraha is committed to putting forward the concepts of gender equality in its work with all targeted groups.