| Grantee: Egyptian Youth Association for Development and Environment |
| Start Date:10/2020 |
| End Date:12/2021 |
Objectives:
Spreading environmental awareness of the issue of solid e-waste, and reducing the environmental and health impacts resulting from it, by setting up a system for the proper management and safe disposal of e-waste among the youth sector in a number of universities and the surrounding areas. |
Accomplishments:
- Raising awareness among the participants about the importance of electronic waste management and its safe disposal.
- Positively interact with the e-waste issue and develop new proposals to deal with it.
- Some participating students hold meetings within their universities to educate the rest of the students who are not participating in the program.
- Laying foundations for dealing with e-waste generated by the university, and mobilizing the support of university presidents and their deputies.
- Establishing 9 e-waste collection points within the universities in which the project is being implemented.
- Collecting more than 2,500 electronic waste pieces from students, and delivering them to a factory for safe disposal.
- The opening of Tanta University's e-waste collection center at the level of Gharbia Governorate, as one of the project's results.
- The League of Arab States adopts the project as one of the activities of the Arab Union for Youth and Environment organizations, with directives to circulate it to youth organizations.
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Communities:
8 universities (Al-Azhar, Cairo, 6 October, Sadat, Menoufia, Beni Suef, Tanta, Obour institutes), a group of sustainable development schools in Cairo, the General Union of Scouts and Guides |
Partners:
Ministry of Environment, National Solid Waste Program, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Arab Union for Youth and Environment, Egyptian Forum for Sustainable Development, Targeted Universities, Private Sector, Media |
| Beneficiaries: 983 participating university students, 25 university youth welfare officials, 25 media professionals, 3250 indirect beneficiaries |
