Centre for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance
Founded in 1995, the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) is a women-led organization operating in Giza, with a focus on awareness raising, capacity building, and policy change. CEWLA focuses primarily on policy advocacy as a means of ending child marriage.
With its Changemakers grant, CEWLA will strengthen its organization structure by investing in its staff, improving its M&E systems, and developing digital tools to collect child marriage data that can inform their advocacy strategies. CEWLA will also engage health care providers and support them to become youth-friendly allies to end child marriage.
FROM CEWLA
This partnership with the Girls First Fund provides us with new opportunities for collaboration, a greater capacity to reach communities that are in dire need of support, and a chance for us to enhance our support tools and analyses of violence, hence improving our workflow, insights, and knowledge sharing capacities.
As a grassroots organization, we work on preventing child marriage as a harmful practice, and we do that through empowering communities in various ways. The flexibility of the Changemakers grant enables us to continue implementing and amplifying our impact. Through community awareness campaigns targeting families and local leaders, we can now improve our reach in combating the health and social causes of child marriage, including consanguineous marriages associated with sickle cell anemia.
Ultimately, we envision a reality where girls know and practice their rights, and where the wider society sheds away the patriarchal practices that hinder girls and women from exploring their full potential, and from having access to essential services for their livelihood.