Sawiris Foundation for Social Development
The Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD) was established in 2001 with an endowment from the Sawiris Family, becoming one of the first national donor foundations in Egypt. The SFSD works to support marginalised Egyptians through programmes addressing poverty, unemployment, and limited access to healthcare and quality education. The foundation’s primary focus areas include economic empowerment, increasing access to quality education, social empowerment, and encouraging artistic and cultural creativity.
- Organisation type Family foundation
- Year founded 2001
- Headquartered Cairo
- Registration Egypt
- Website https://sawirisfoundation.org/
Focus areas
Focus sectors
Education
- Early childhood education
- Adult education
- Continuing education
- Adult Literacy
- Graduate and professional
- Education services
- Co-operative education
- College preparation
- Out-of-school learning
Health
- Diseases and conditions
- Medical specialities
- Healthcare access
- In-patient care
- Out-patient care
- Reproductive health care
- Maternal and perinatal health
Human services
- Youth development
- Family services
- Special population support
- Food aid
Community and economic development
- Economic development
- Employment
- Job retraining
- Job training
- Job creation and workforce developement
- Rural development
- Sustainable developement
- Financial services
- Development finance
- Community development finance
Agriculture, fishing and forestry
- Food security
- Agriculture
Focus populations
- Young adults
- Older adults
- Seniors
- Women and girls
- Men and boys
- Immigrants and migrants
- Refugees and displaced people
- Farmers
- Artists and performers
- Unemployed people
- Students
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Focus geographies
North Africa
- Egypt
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Programmes
Social empowerment
This programme provides marginalised groups with access to healthcare, clean water, sanitation, and basic education, as well as supporting homesless and at-risk children and care leavers.Economic empowerment
This pillar supports micro-enterprises, runs training and employment suppot services and has an agricultural development programme.Education and scholarships
This includes scholarships, basic education, pre-primary education, technical and vocational education and executive education.Sawiris Culture Award
This is a competition recognising excellence among emerging and established novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, and literary critics.
Financials
Annual budget
- 286 Egyptian Pounds (2021)
Funding model
- Endowment
- Corporate
Primary funders
- Sawiris family
- Orascom
Types of funding and awards
- Cash grants
- Foundation-administered programme awards
- Grants to Individuals
- Loans to Individuals
In-kind gifts
- Donated equipment
- Donated land
- Donated goods
- Programme related investment
Operations
Key staff
- Noura Selim, executive director
Board members
- Chairwoman and founder, Yousriya Sawiris
- Advisor to the board, Onsi Sawiris
- Secretary general, Taya Samih
- Vice-chair, Naguib Sawiris
- Board member, Nadia Makram
- Board member, Mona Zulficar
- Board member, Osama Beshai
- Board member, Nassef Sawiris
- Board member, Ismail Serag Eldin
- Board member, Hala Hashem
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Contact details
- +20 2 279 27 660
- info@sawirisfoundation.org
- https://sawirisfoundation.org/
- 10 El Diwan St., Garden City, Cairo, Egypt.
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Further information
Related sustainable development goals
Further Resources
- Meet Noura Selim, Noura Selim is executive director of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, which works to empower Egypt's poorest communities, and support inclusive development
- Samih Sawiris, co-founder of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development shares insights from his experience of stewarding family philanthropy in Egypt
- How the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development is helping to build pathways out of poverty for people living in Upper Egypt
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