Yearly Archives: 2015

In 2010 and 2011, 25 Sister City partnerships representing 13 African countries and 16 U.S. states were competitively selected to participate in AUPAP. Through these partnerships, community members in the African cities, along with members of civic, municipal, and private organizations in both the U.S. and Africa, selected projects in the areas of water, sanitation, […]

Sister Cities International’s Africa Urban Poverty Alleviation Program (AUPAP) is designed to address urban poverty through water, health, and sanitation projects developed collaboratively by U.S. and African sister city programs. This includes participation and support from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, municipal governments and traditional leaders in Africa to provide sustained technical assistance […]

In February of 2011, Farrel Beddome traveled to Morocco to participate in a seminar focused on developing projects in Aswan, Egypt. Other US recipients of the AUPAP grant monies joined her. Magdy Rabie, Chair of the Aswan-Sonoma Committee and Soad Karmy, flew in from Egypt, though their country was still in political and social chaos […]

The project focused on the Health Sector and proposed to purchase medical equipment for the Aswan Cancer Center. The Aswan Cancer Center primarily serves Egypt’s southernmost governorate of Aswan. The Aswan Cancer Center serves both rural and urban patients of various ethnic affiliations including Egyptian, Nubian, and Bedouin peoples.

The Aswan Cancer Center maintains and operates […]

Households in the El Nasriya community are located on small windy streets, making garbage pick-up  by city collectors virtually impossible. The goal of the project is to improve the neighborhood of El Nasriya by acquiring equipment and materials for cleanup and to promote the consistent collection of trash by community members. To accomplish this, the […]