by Nermien Riad | Jun 22, 2023 | "The Widow's Cause", Issues: The Girl Child, Issues:Education, Women
Gemyana is a young woman from a village in Upper Egypt. Her family didn’t have much money when she was growing up, so she couldn’t go to school and experience a normal, carefree childhood. However, Gemyana was determined to learn, so she asked a teacher in her village...
by Nermien Riad | May 3, 2021 | Approaches to Charity and Development, Issues:Education
Coptic Orphans is continuing its role as a catalyst of digital education, and as a partner of Egyptian officials in promoting online learning. As part of broader efforts to counter Covid’s effects on our children’s learning, Coptic Orphans was...
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 kbarsoum | Feb 14, 2019 | Issues:Education
Daniel and his students in his classroom. A photo is worth 1,000 words This is another entry in the “A photo is worth 1,000 words” from Serve to Learn volunteers. This one is from Daniel Shoukry, who just got back from the 2019 Jan-Feb Serve to Learn trip....
by Nermien Riad | Jan 17, 2019 | Issues:Education
Happy New Year! We are blessed to have completed 30 years of service in Egypt through God’s grace and your generous support. As we begin a new year and plan to enroll 2,700 new children in 65 new areasthroughout Egypt, we want to make sure you know the difference your...
