by Nermien Riad | Feb 11, 2021 | Valuable Girl Project, Workshops
Coptic Orphans has taken an important step in launching the new cycle of the Valuable Girl Project, which was put on hold in 2020 due to COVID. A new set of Egyptian community development associations (CDAs) has been approved as partners in the project, which is now...
by Nermien Riad | Jan 29, 2021 | Issues That Impact Children in Egypt, Issues: The Girl Child, Valuable Girl Project, Women
Coptic Orphans’ network of advocates for girls and women received encouraging news last week, when the Egyptian government took a critical step towards stamping out female genital mutilation (FGM) by strengthening a law designed to punish those who participate in this...
by Nermien Riad | Nov 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Issues:Education, Wise (and Godly) Giving
COVID-19 has placed a tremendous burden our children’s education, forcing schools everywhere to close, and sending teachers and parents scrambling to adapt to online learning. Thank God, during this incredibly hard time, Coptic Orphans donors and sponsors have...
by Nermien Riad | Sep 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Issues:Education
Sweeping changes are in the works at the Egyptian Ministry of Education in the COVID-19 era, and Coptic Orphans is responding by transforming how we serve the fatherless children in our Not Alone program. We are committed to adapting to the huge changes taking place...
by Nermien Riad | Aug 19, 2020 | Diaspora
Maged Atiya (1953-2020), was a physicist, an entrepreneur, an intellectual and a leading light for the Coptic Diaspora. Born in Cairo, Egypt, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1969, joining his great uncle, the Coptic historian Aziz Suryal Atiya....