OUR PARTNERS
United Nations
On June 3, 2021 the Center for Arab-West Understanding became a UN Partner organization.
American University of Cairo
Through our cooperation with AUC, we connect AUC students with our refugee students. By engaging with AUC students, our students get acquainted with university students, they learn how to write a research paper and improve their level of English proficiency. Brooke Comer is the Duke Engage liaison in Egypt, coordinating Community Based Learning opportunities for mixed groups of Duke and AUC and CAWU-Learning Centre students.
Duke University
Our partnership with Duke University allows our students to attend lectures on several topics. In this way, our students get an idea of how it is to study at a university. After every lecture, our students make a quiz on the lecture to see how much they learned from it. The points of the quizes count for their involvement in extra-curricular activities.
Kindermissionswerk Die Sternsinger is a German Catholic organisation, supporting projects for children worldwide. This includes education, health, refugees and rights for children etc. The ideas for the development of the CAWU Learning Centre came, after a meeting in March 2019 between Fr. John Kipkemoi Korir of St. Joseph Parish and Cornelis Hulsman of CAWU.
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St. Joseph’s Church is running a learning centre for Eritrean refugees up until grade 8 of the Sudanese curriculum. The St. Joseph Learning Centre has no space to continue education after grade 8. CAWU was working with university student interns, who were ready to volunteer with secondary school refugee education. CAWU wrote in consultation with St. Joseph’s church a project proposal for the establishment of a new kind of refugee learning centre, that would provide them with an internationally recognised education. Sternsinger Kindermission provided St. Joseph church with a generous grant that was used in 2019-2021 to develop in the CAWU premises, the basic structure for a refugee school, following a British secondary curriculum. The number of refugee students in this period grew from 3 to 30 students.
Mazaya
Caritas Poland
PKN Church Alphen aan den Rijn
Mazaya, a beauty products company leader, helps the Centre for Arab-West Understanding Learning Centre with daily lunches for their students.
Caritas-Poland helped with the start-up of the CAWU Learning Centre through the payment of school fees of the students in 2019-2020.
The church adopted the CAWU-Learning Centre as a project with 2000 Euro per year. The church receives regular updates about the work in Egypt.
Majorel Company
Majorel is an international service company that focuses on customer experience and business process outsourcing. As part of their "Impact" corporate responsibility programme, Majorel signed a 3 year contract with CAWU. Majorel provides CAWU with educational resources, such as desktop computers, which have been invaluable during the enforced periods of online learning this year. Majorel has expressed its interest in hiring our students for their call-centers.
Click here to see Majorel's CSR Impact programme for the CAWU Learning Centre
Christian Reformed Church The Hague
New Cairo British International School (NCBIS)
ACE Club Cairo
The church has organized annual collections since 2018 in support of the work of Cornelis Hulsman in Egypt. Cornelis Hulsman writes regular updates about the work in Egypt for Samen, the local church publication. CAWU provides annually a brief PowerPoint presentation with an update about the work in Egypt.
The CAWU sought contact with NCBIS in March 2019 and gave several presentations about the CAWU-Learning Centre for their students. Principal John Bagust and Dr. Susie Belal, Head of Key Stage 5 and IBDP Coordinator, visited the CAWU Learning Centre. CAWU presented the NCBIS board a formal request for the Board’s approval to cooperate with the CAWU Learning Centre.
The Association of Cairo Expatriates (ACE) , started in 1998 is a members association for the members and their guests and is run by the members. The ACE Club made a huge effort to sponsor our Summer School Program 2021