Our Team

Our Team

Mahmoud Fathy

He is responsible for coordinating the work and the various tasks of the team at the center, which includes responsibility over training and developing the workers. Mahmoud believes in the philosophy of the center regarding team work with a group of individuals who have overlapping specializations. Instead of having one person be a literacy teacher, another being in charge of non-classroom activities, and another being in charge of artistic activities, each of our social workers are responsible for all of the above. However, each worker has a different set of target children that they are responsible for, and they follow up with them in classes and activity days and even visits them at work and at home if necessary.

Faten Saeed

Faten is responsible for implementing the monthly planned field visits. She is also responsible for archiving the files of the children joining the project. Every file includes a case study follow up of the child starting from when they joined the project until they graduate. Field visits are a sequence of visits to the target children’s places of work, followed by visits to their homes to survey their situation and to create relations with their families and employers. This is followed by visits to prevent the children from dropping out and to solve problems the children face at work and at home. We plan field visits for the new month based on the attendance of the different children, along with seeking target children in the areas around the center. Prior to working at the center, Saeed worked in the administration of the Center for Development of Industrial Designs, which enabled her to understand the nature of the work we do here. Saeed earned her Diploma of Arts in 1976. Since joining the center in 2004, she has received several specialized training sessions, the last of which was the training workshop “Women and the Right To Work” for training lawyers and representatives of civil society organizations. Faten says: “I have become very dedicated to my work here for the sake of making these children happy. These are children that have been neglected by their family and their society and there is no one watching out for them as they get lost in the crowdedness of this city. All they know is going to the workshops and working all day in the same clothes covered in grease and gasoline and the noise of the motors. They are living a life that does not suit their age.”