(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) In the words of 23-year-old Khaled Yousry regarding his project: "I just want to make this country a better place for people to live in."
Talking about the main reason he and his partner started the Nafez project, Yousry said: "There's nothing better but supporting those who seek to help others and only suffers from money shortage."
Nafez (Apply) is an online platform that connects private sector companies and individuals to NGOs in need of funding to apply a community development project.
The platform started earlier this year, and aims to benefit from corporate social responsibility (CSR) to invest the money in several projects that NGOs apply to undertake. With several projects competing for a specific amount of money, the choice goes to the one that gets most of the votes by the public.
"I've worked at the community service field," Yousry said. "I know how hard, sometimes impossible, it is to collect a big amount of money without being hugely famous NGO in Egypt."
The story goes back to 2011, after the 25 January Revolution, when most of Egypt's NGOs were accused of having foreign funding. Karem Abo El-So'od, Yousry's partner in Nafez, decided to establish a social fund with the help of the Ministry of International Cooperation to collect money from individuals for those non-profit organisations that only aim to provide services to Egyptian society.
"We wanted people to trust that the money we change our society with is from the society itself," Yousry said. "Yet, all what we faced were struggles at getting the permissions and approvals for doing so."
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