Health :

• AHED has organized a seminar on “ Liberation Medicine and the People’s Health Movement” Which was Held at AHED’s place on Friday 1 st of April, 2005, at 5 P.M. The seminar started with a presentation by: "DR. LANNY SMITH", a member of the Steering Group of the People’s Health Movement, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Einstein College of Medicine, USA. The presentation was followed by an open discussion.
  For Dr. Smith’s full speech- click here.

Environment:

• In respond to Millennium Summit and in order to communicate with implementation of the “Millennium Development Goals”, and to give a national view for the role of Egyptian NGOs in participating in their achievement, the Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHED), by cooperating with the Arab NGO Network for Development, was honored to launch a workshop around “The Role of NGOs in Following-up the Implementation of the Millennium Goals”.which took place on April 5-6, 2005, in the Al-Basant Hall, in Air-Defense House (Dar el-Defaa el-Gawee).
  

  This workshop came into birth after the organization of Millennium Summit, which was held by the UN in September 2000. The Millennium Summit has witnessed the adoption of the Millennium Declaration by many governmental and countries’ Presidents, including Egypt, in which some of the qualitative and carnal conjoined aims that is required to be achieved by year 2015, in certain main development areas, were appointed, and these aims are known by “Millennium Development Goals”

Disability:

• In a celebratory meeting, the Association for Health and Environmental Development launched a Manual for Prevention, Early Detection and Management of Childhood Disability (for physicians on the level of primary health care. The celebratory launching was convened in 19th December 2004 with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Health and Population as well as representatives of many national and international organization that concern the issue of childhood disability. The manual was developed and published within the framework of the “Community Based Rehabilitation Project”, which is being implemented by Plan International – Egypt, the Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHED), SETI Center for Training and Researches of Mental Disability (CARITAS-Egypt), and Save the Children - UK. The project is supported by Plan International – Egypt and the European Commission.
  A complete copy of the manual (PDF) you can also get separate chapters from the manual from our publications page
  A feed back questionnaire on the manual's content.
• AHED has Organized training courses on “Speech Therapy” – for physicians - that took place on March 3-24, 2005.
• AHED and Plan International have both organized the 2nd festival for disability challenges during Cairo’s 37th Book Fair. The festival aimed at supporting the disability case through giving opportunities for those disabled, especially children and their families, so that they can express themselves and propose their work. In addition, the festival also paid attention to the disables’ rights, and the challenges they face toward development.

The Festival comes through the implementation of the “Child-Focused Community-Based Rehabilitation project” that is prepared by Plan International - Egypt, AHED, SITI Center for Trainings and Researches in Disability, the Save the Children - UK. Moreover, with the help of Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs the project is being implemented. As for the financial support, the project is funded by both Plan International (Egypt), and the European Commissariat. According to the festival, the disability case is seen as a case of rights and equal opportunities, and not just providing some services. This understanding of the disables’ rights matches with the scientific development that results from the cooperation with the case, especially in the last two decades. This means that disabled individuals are, in the first category, citizens who have the full rights of enjoying ALL citizens’ rights, ranging from having access to healthcare till having rights in education, work, family life, use of varies cultural, sportive, and entertaining means, including the right to participate in all social activities.