Ganoubia Hora for Development is a young Egyptian feminist foundation, that’s based and working from the far south of Egypt – Aswan Governorate, analyzing the southern reality context in order to understand more comprehensively the intersections such as tribalism, marginalization and centralization and the extent of their impact on the status of women’s lives from a feminist perspective, as we see that the reality of women in Egypt is similar in burden and violence With the different tools used by patriarchy, which gives us a better opportunity in analyzing and engaging with these societies and helps in dismantling the patriarchy and establishing the principle of gender equality, we use different mechanisms to analyze the local reality and establish a southern society that is aware of gender issues and the gender gap.
Ganoubia Hora was formed as a youth initiative in mid-2012, as a result of the awareness of the members of how masculinity and patriarchy control the public sphere, as they decided to be part of the public sphere with their own free will and the awareness of the burden on women human rights defenders and activists to form an idea of creating a group of women that would be a lobby inside the political parties and movements to ensure a better representation of women And to shed light on the activists in the south and dismantling the centralization. Then the idea developed into a safer public sphere for southern women and a private sphere that achieves justice and gender equality.
Ganoubia Hora was registered as a foundation under the umbrella of the ministry of social solidarity in 2015 and is managed by a board of trustees in a participatory manner in cooperation with the workers and volunteers of the organization since then, to be the first feminist foundation in southern Upper Egypt, which is run by young women.
We dream of a southern society that supports public freedoms, opposes discrimination on the basis of gender, and proceeds towards gender equality, and a public and private sphere that is safe for women.
And to be Ganoubia Hora a free, strong and supportive Southern woman socially, politically, psychologically, and juristically, and we provide support to the women of Upper Egypt
We seek to shed light on gender differences in closed societies, dismantle tribal intolerance, and study social phenomena that prevent women and their freedom of choice in southern Egypt and the violence inflicted upon them in different contexts.
We are working on a number of goals under three main axes: –
First: Movement and Activism
We see ourselves as an integral part of the Egyptian feminist context, as well as the regional, African and global context, we see that feminism has come to unite the efforts of various women in the world towards a better world for women in their different social environments, so from this standpoint we seek permanent networking with feminist movements and foundations especially in Egypt, and we learn and develop from other regional and global contexts, and in order to develop and sustain the Egyptian feminist movement, we see that it is our role to support / seek the existence of all emerging feminist initiatives or entities that are consistent with our vision to achieve a supreme goal, which is a better world for Egyptian women
Second: knowledge as the basis of feminism
Under knowledge productions throughout the ages is the one that establishes history, transmits knowledge, defines the identity of individuals, and from a feminist point of view it defines the feeling of women in times, raises their voices, determines their priorities, and prepares a legacy for future generations, an advanced understanding of current generations and an analysis that leads to understanding and establishing laws and conscious inclusion and crystallization, so we are interested By producing knowledge as one of the tools of the feminism movement, we present our vision on issues related to women in southern Egypt. We seek to document the experiences of women in southern Egypt and extensive research into the history of women in southern Egypt.
Third: services
In the near future, we seek to establish a department of legal and then psychological services to present a small part of our role towards southern women, who have always suffered from marginalization and centralization
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