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Community Development Association of Ga'afar

Project Information
from Sámi Mahrous

Helping farmers learn to make compost and thereby reducing the amount of chemicals needed to produce crops.
Helping residents find homes with basic utilities.
Providing loans to farmers.
Maintaining the school building; providing qualified teachers; improving communications between the school and families and providing uniforms for students unable to buy them.
Providing a library and children's club.
Providing positive role models for children.
Helping more girls acquire an education
Advocating women's rights.
Finding quality daycare for children while their parents work.
Improving the environment around the village; improving roads; finding sources of solar energy.
 

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Fields surrounding Ga'afar   
 

Assisting a farmer


The village of Ga'afar

 


Building a new home

The Samuel Habib School

  A classroom

 


Children at a preschool

Solar energy source in Ga'afar
Photos provided by Chris Doyle
and
Sámi Mahrous

  

 

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