Save the Children (Egypt)

Save the Children/US would like to announce the attached consultancy: “Ishraq Plus: Empowering Girls and Boys”

If you are interested, kindly send the following to email address: Egyptfo@savechildren.org

1.         Your CV

2.         Proposal

3.        Proposed Budget (Excel sheet)

If not, I would appreciate if you would forward the announcement to potential consultant you know and who may be interested.  Deadline for receiving documents is Sunday June 3rd, 2012 by 02.00 pm.   

For a full scope of work, please click here. 

Save the Children US and UK are finally joining forces here in Egypt and the recruitment process has begun with the opening of the Senior Management Team (SMT) positions. 

The Country Director Designate for the Egypt country office has already been appointed and should be making the rounds through Cairo and Egypt very soon! For more about Chris McIvor, our new CDD, watch him talk about his book here, or order a copy off amazon here. 

The four positions of the SMT are now open for applications. For more information on the openings and the application procedure, visit this document here. 

The deadline for receiving applications is Wednesday, May 2nd.

When you’re trying to keep people informed and interested in causes that matter, you need to use all the tools at your disposal and we’re always looking for new and creative ways of engaging with people – not only the people we work with at the community level, but also our national and international partners, donors, colleagues and supporters all over the world.

So our Egypt Country Office was proud to participate in the first ever global Tweetchat, coordinated by Save the Children International on February 15^th. Our aim? To raise awareness and encourage debate about the looming disaster approaching if chronic malnutrition, which has been identified as the hidden crisis of our time, isn’t properly tackled immediately.

The root cause of 2 million child deaths every year, chronic malnutrition – a lack of proper nutrition over time – has far-reaching effects that are not as immediately obvious as the effects of acute malnutrition – the short-term condition generally seen during food crises. The image conjured up by the term “malnutrition” of a child in the Sahel, Ethiopia or Somalia – emaciated, bony and with his stomach distended due to hunger – is potent and heart-wrenching. But the fate of the child who suffers from chronic malnutrition is no less tragic. Her physical and mental development will be impaired due to a lack of essential nutrients; she may suffer from stunting and will perform significantly less well in school than she would if she were properly nourished. She is more vulnerable to diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea and indeed to the effects of acute malnutrition if a food crisis occurs.

 Save the Children’s decision to harness the power of the internet to explore this issue comes from our belief that true solutions can only be found when people from different backgrounds work together to tackle endemic, far reaching problems. Our Tweetchat spanned 12 time zones and was conducted over 14 hours in several different languages. During this time, we had over 50 hosts from all over the world, taking it in turn to lead the discussion, each bringing their own viewpoint to the issue. These hosts included Bollywood stars in India, celebrity chefs in Indonesia, food bloggers in the UK, government ministers and the Asian food channel in Singapore. Here in Egypt it was our nutrition expert Dr Nevein Dous who led the conversation about the challenges we tackle, particularly through our EVERY ONE campaign work and our Maternal and Child Health package, as we address the root causes of malnutrition in Egypt and raise awareness of how important it is to have a healthy diet.

So turn on and tune in to something really groundbreaking. This is just the beginning of a new way of online communication, where global problems can be examined and solutions found in a truly global way. Those of you who are on Twitter check out #hiddencrisis; for those who aren’t our communication team at Save the Children International have created a twebevent (click!) to give the event its own online space, so you can access that easily.     

Whatever your language, background or viewpoint, we want to hear your ideas for averting this hidden crisis. Come and join the discussion! 

Hi, I’m Montasser Foad, the health program manager in Assiut , Egypt. My job always has me working with newbornsand new mothers, which is something I love, because being able to help new mom’s take care of their children paves the way for a long healthy life.

One thing I don’t like about my job though is statistics. On their own, statistics are just numbers but when these numbers talk about mortality rates for newborns and the increasing malnutrition rates among children from 6-24 month; we should be worried.

In the Abnoub district part of the Assiut governorate, the maternal mortality rate in 2008 was 68/100000 and 44% of children aged 6-24 months were malnourished.. 

These terrifying numbers drove Save the Children to provide marginalized areas with mobile health caravans for children, conduct nutrition and neonatal health classes for parents and both equip and train local health units on how to deal with emergency cases. Save the Children also created a referral system where beneficiaries can refer who needs immediate help. In Save the Children’s health program, we’ve also developed helpful messages on nutrition and neonatal health and shared them extensively.

They say numbers speak for themselves, and in this case they have. Ever since Save the Children started it’s work in the Abnoub district the maternal mortality rate has been decreased from 68/100000 in 2008 to 58/100000 in 2011,  and decreasing malnutrition from 44 % to 11 %.

We can’t stop every child from dying, but we’re trying. This year we’re targeting 16,000 children and 22,000 women in our sponsorship health program. In the near future, we expect to cover 25,000 children and 55,000 women.

I feel that children can’t wait and that’s why our response can’t wait. 

Save the Children US is currently recruiting for the attached vacancy of “Monitoring & Research Specialist. The vacancy is at the field office in Assiut.

Deadline for receiving applications is Wednesday February 8th, 2012 by 01.00 pm. 

We do encourage and welcome qualified interested applicants to send their CV to e-mail address: Egyptfo@savechildren.org

Please write the position in the e-mail subject.

For the full job description, please click here.