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We are a team of young professionals, inspired by the Revolution to collaborate with partners as diverse as the challenges faced by rural Egypt. We are proponents of sustainable agriculture as the core driver for productive communities that flourish from the bottom-up. Our initiative, “Nawaya”, recognizes the need for development goals that are pro-poor and promote social and environmental justice.

We are co-creating a demonstration center in Fagnoon Art School, Abusir, to showcase replicable models for eco-friendly rural development practice and appropriate low-cost technology. The center will be a hub for ongoing community-based innovations that optimize local skills and resources into products and services that are profitable, serve community needs and restore the surrounding environment.

Starting 2013, we worked on a program with 20 farmer families to increase and diversify income streams that are based on soil stewardship practices sustained through farmer to consumer linkages.

Starting 2014 Baladini was created a community kitchen run by farmer women, to create "artisanal, healthy and fair" food based on rural tradition.