Only in 2012 used the 120 women Tableyan with built-in computer. Fatma Ibrahim was among the first

More Young mother Fatma Ibrahim has been illiterate all her life. Like many other women in the Egyptian desert, she was not in school as a child. Poverty was a major obstacle, but traditional tjmaxx beliefs as well. Thanks to a project of the UN Development Programme UNDP has Fatma now have the opportunity to study in adulthood - to say the least creative way.
Siwa is not only one of Egypt's oases, it is also one of the areas in the country who are struggling most with illiteracy. The widespread poverty is one of the reasons why so few people in the oasis can read. 40 percent of women in Siwa are illiterate and constitute half the oasis population of 23 000 people.
2008, the United Nations Development Programme together with the World Health Organization and the Egyptian community development programs. Together they started a project to combat illiteracy among women in Siwa. In addition to 8000 women have learned to read and write, they have got their own computers of the project and learned about marketing and business online. Thanks to the training now has many of Siwa women practical knowledge on how they can promote products and services through tjmaxx webshops.
Since primarily women are often denied education in Siwa realized the project instructors quickly that the most effective was to teach women in their own homes. They came up with the creative idea that they could make use of a Tableya - a low table in each traditional Egyptian home - and integrate computers these! The table is additionally foldable, which makes it easy to carry around from home to home so women can more easily work in groups.
Only in 2012 used the 120 women Tableyan with built-in computer. Fatma Ibrahim was among the first women who completed the literacy program. But Fatma was not content to read and write. She chose to go with the project's business development course, which meant that she could open their own sewing workshop: