Lets visitor review the list of past Aswan Committee projects
The Sonoma-Aswan Sister City Committee warmly wishes our membership and community a peaceful holiday season. Happy New Year to 2023!
Congratulations to Jatzin Sanchez, Class of 2021/Sonoma Valley High School! Jatzin is the recipient of the SSCA award in the amount of $1000.00 to assist in her pursuit of language study (Spanish), as one of her two majors at Chico State. Her other major is psychology. Many thanks to the SSCA Board and the Aswan […]
Many thanks to Bill Boerum for putting together the ZOOM presentation given by His Excellency Ambassador (Ret.) Abderahman Salaheldin, who served as the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. from 2004 through 2010. SSCA members may recall that Ambassador Salaheldin was instrumental in helping to set up the City of Sonoma – Aswan (Egypt) Sister City […]
“Our Beautiful Water” was the first successful project with the Aswan-Sonoma committee and was designed and implemented by Art and Culture sub-committee Chair, Arlene Sukolsky. Sonoma historian and Education sub-committee Chair, George McKale, implemented this project with the Sonoma Girls & Boys Club.
Winners of the art project were determined by a distinguished panel of judges: […]
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 […]
