Misr El Kheir Foundation
Misr El Kheir Foundation (MEK) is a nonprofit that fundraises to support individuals and communities in need across Egypt. Their projects impact and reach millions of beneficiaries and range from building schools and dialysis units, to fixing water connections and rehabilitating homes. MEK also collects money to pay for school fees, distributes food, and pays off debts to release people from jail. Donations can be made in cash, online, via bank transfer, and through various e-payment applications directly to specific appeals, or towards more general causes, such as sponsoring students, buying meals for the elderly, or paying for medical equipment and services.
- Organisation type Nonprofit
- Year founded 2007
- Headquartered Cairo
- Registration Egypt
- Website https://mekeg.org/home
Related sustainable development goals
Focus areas
Focus sectors
Agriculture
- Irrigation and water management
Development
- Economic development
- Community improvement
- Housing development
- Housing rehabilitation
- Sustainable development
Education
- Higher education
- Early childhood education
- Education services
- Elementary and secondary education
Health
- Public health
- Human rights
Humanitarian
- Special population support
- Food aid
- Food banks
- Youth development
- Family services
- Free goods distribution
Focus populations
- Chronically ill people
- Low-income people
- Offenders
- Orphans
- Retired people
- Single parents
- Students
- Unemployed people
- Widows and widowers
- Working poor
Focus geographies
North Africa
- Egypt
Programmes
Fundraising for Projects
Misr el Kheir conducts hundreds of development projects that focus on scholarships and education, health as well community and economic development, targeting particularly the most marginalised and underserved communities and populations in Egypt. The foundation offers individuals, corporates, foundations, and other international development organisations that opportunity to donate to contribute to the causes and target populations they support.Gharmeen Redemption
A Ramadan initiative to collect funds to pay off debts to help people get out of jail.
Financials
Funding model
- Foundation-administered programme awards
- Grants to Individuals
- Grants to organisations
- In-kind gifts
- Programme related investment
Primary funders
- Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
- Alnajat Charity
- Alwaleed philanthropies
- Bahrain Trust Foundation
- Banque du Caire
- Emirates NBD
- FAO
- ILO
- Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation
- Orange
- Royal Charity Organization
- Sheikh Abdallah al Nouri Charity Society
- UNIDO
- UNWomen
- UNWomen
- Vodafone
Operations
Board members
- Abd El-Aziz Aly, Executive Trustee
- Abdelhamid Abu Mousa, First Deputy of the Chairman
- Ali Meselhi, Member
- Archbishop Mouneer Anis, Member
- Dr. Mohamed Rifai, Member
- Hany Helal, Member
- Hassan El-Khatib, Member
- Khaled El-Ghannam, General Secretary
- Mohamed Mahgoub, Member
- Mohsen Mahgoub, Second Deputy of the Chairman Treasurer
- Niazy Sallam, Member
- Prof. Dr. Ali Gomaa, Chairman
- Prof. Dr. Ikbal El Samalouty, Member
- Salah El-Wazzan, Member
Contact details
- +20228452054
- https://mekeg.org/home
- 4 Al Ahram St, Nafoura Square, Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt