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The different projects of FACE are based around Cairo:

• 4 orphanages (Hegazy, Benha, Maadi and Zeitoun)
• A centre for street children in El Salam
• A clinic in the slum of Ghoussous

In 2003, FACE renovated and restructured the orphanage of Zeitoun (80 children from 0 to 18 years) as well as the centre for abandoned babies of Hegazy (120 babies/year from 0 to 2 years => 580 children since 2004), where FACE took over the management with the support of the Ministry of Health.

The number of babies increases year on year. The Egyptian Government is aware of the scale of the phenomenon but has not succeeded in stopping it.  No structure is currently capable of taking on the problem in the present demographic context.

That is why FACE opened in September 2007 the orphanage of Maadi to take care of abandoned babies between 0 and 2 years.  The orphanage now counts 44 babies.

As of mid 2009, FACE will start to renovate a new orphanage in Benha.  For this project

FACE will take over and manage this centre with the support of the Ministry of Social Affairs.  It will be dedicated to children between 2 and 6 years who come from the orphanages of Hegazy and Maadi in order to ensure the continuity of care but also the stability and affective safety. As a matter of fact, this will allow children to grow up together and evolve with the same paediatric nurse. The orphanage will also welcome orphans from the slum of Benha.

Not long ago, in April 2007, FACE was contacted by the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood to launch a large project for the street children in Cairo.

This project opened its doors in January 2009 after a whole year of intensive field work accomplished by the team of FACE.  The objective was to build first contacts with children in order to gradually establish a relationship based on trust through non-intrusive methods.

Foreseen in 2010, the construction of the «Child & Mother Support Centre» in Ghoussous aims at helping children and mothers of this large slum of 2.000.000 people in the north of Cairo. It will cover:

• A clinic for children
• A temporary help unit for mothers and children in dire need (emergency accommodation and staff with the objective of prevention of abandonment)
• A system of day-care centre and a nursery school with 4 classrooms in order to allow mothers (often very young) to find work and manage to get out of poverty.
• A training initiative teaching mothers hygiene and care as well as a training programme to help them reintegrate in the professional workforce: computer skills, sewing, cooking, crafts, etc.)

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