Designed to Live Together

Project Outline for KS 3 Students

Project Description
A study by the Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies has revealed that 75
percent of the villages in Egypt suffer apparent challenges in some
development sectors, services and facilities such as clean water networks,
sanitation and gas, electricity, schools and hospitals.

In this project, students are to investigate the challenges these poor villages
experience by choosing one of the Egyptian villages, and come up with a
suggested action plan on how to make it a better place. Students will google
the challenges, search for real sources, even contact or interview keypersons in
any of the Egyptian Non-Profit Organizations, Haya Karima, for example, and
incorporate their findings into their calculations.

Suggested Ideas and Resources:

Watch:
Forgotten Rural Town: Inside the Homes of Beni Suef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ANduUT5yJM
Village Life in Aswan. Egypt/ Getaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odf66wTvv3I

Read:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/16/100403/Report-Haya-Karima-
reduces-poverty-rate-in-Egypt%E2%80%99s-villages-by

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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-poorest-Villages-in-Egyptian-
Rural_tbl2_321866618

https://enterprise.press/stories/2019/01/06/egypt-to-target-100-poorest-
villages-with-a-decent-life-initiative/

https://www.britannica.com/place/Egypt/Rural-settlement

How many students can work on this project?

It is a group project (of min.3 and max. 5 members). Each group will choose
the village and work on their findings.

What should the students do?

Students should submit a PowerPoint presentation with embedded
videos and photos.

What should the PPT Presentation include?

It should include the following:

• The name of the village studied
• Reasons of the choice.
• How far is it from Cairo?
• Where is it located in Egypt?
• What is the chosen village famous for?
• What kind of apparent challenge (clean water networks, sanitation and
gas, electricity, schools and hospitals) does the chosen village face?
• What steps should the government and Egyptian non-profit
organizations take to help the chosen village?
• Once living conditions are improved, how would this
village help Egyptian economy?

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 Project Phases
An overview of each phase and the aspects involved:
Phase (1) (The Challenge)
When it is time to think about Egyptian villages, so many challenges
come to the surface: what problem needs solving, who will be involved
and what will be done.
In this phase, take time to pinpoint which issue your presentation is
actually supposed to tackle.
Your mission is to choose the challenge upon which you will choose
the village of your case study in Phase 2

You can pick any TWO of the following challenges (based on

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals)
- Poverty
- Hunger
- Health and well-being
- Education
- Water and sanitation
- Employment
- Economic growth (including traditional handcrafts)
- Industry and infrastructure
- Inequality
- Climate change

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 Phase (2): Build-Up Phase
(Choose the Village and Assemble your Team)

Get your team on board (a group of min. 3 and max. 5 students)– those
who have the same interest in the same challenge and accordingly the
same Egyptian village/ neighborhood.

Decide together who will best fit the following key roles:
➢ Data Collectors (Numbers, statistics, facts, documentaries)
➢ Public Relations Specialist (interviews/ contacting keypersons and
official pages of organizations to support the case study)
➢ Innovators (how to think of solutions and answer the challenge in
clear steps, down-to-earth action plan whether on short- or long-
term bases)

Before choosing your focal village, you should:

- Ask what type of data is required
- Think how it will support your plan to overcome the challenge
- Plan how you will turn the challenges into set goals and proposed
action plans.
- Consider people from whom you will seek advice and information,
e.g., members in Egyptian Non-profit Organizations dealing with
poor villages, Hayah Kareema representatives, or media figures
working in community service field
- Determine scope, resources, and major tasks.

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 Phase (3) Implementation (How to Execute the Project)
It is time to put your plans, ideas, data and information into action.
This phase is often the most gratifying and rewarding, because the
planning does actually see light.
Using PPT slides, short In-Shot videos and documentaries, you can
document the two previous phases, findings, and proposed answers
and solutions.

Project Time Line:

Steps Due date
Phase (1) (The Challenge) 17th of Oct.

Phase (2): Build-Up Phase 24th of Oct.

(Choose the Village and Assemble
your Team)

Phase (3) Implementation (How 31st of Oct.

to Execute the Project)
First Draft of PPT Slides

Presentation Day 4th of Nov.