Daisley – one of SBC’s founders and its joint-CEO – delivering the training of trainers programme in the Middle East. In addition to Lahham Haidar, among those
trained on the first trainers’ course in the Middle East – held in Jeddah – were Shams Al-Abdali and, from Egypt, Manal Saleh. Saleh is the Director of Programmes at Sting for Consultancy. She has been working in the field of women and youth empowerment since 2001, and has conducted grassroots community development work in countries including Egypt, Yemen, and Lebanon. Saleh has conducted a number of national and international capacity building programmes in the fields of women empowerment, gender equality, community participation and youth development. For the past two years, she has focused on promoting the culture of dialogue and peacebuilding among Egypt’s youth, especially those with different political ideologies. In February 2014, she became a member of the Egyptian national team of Creators of Peace Circles, under the umbrella of Initiatives of Change. “As a participant, the Springboard programme
had a strong, positive impact on me,” said Saleh. “The key thing to remember, as a participant,
is that there’s no ‘magic answer’. You find your own answer through being on the programme and building on your life experience. This is what empowers the women on the programme. “The Springboard programme is built around
five ‘pillars’,” she added. “Confidentiality and establishing a trusting environment are two. The others are taking a holistic approach – seeing each participant as a whole person, embracing the roles of worker, sister, mother, daughter, and so on – approaching the programme in a non-prescriptive way and really wanting to be on the programme.” Saleh runs the programme for women for
city-based women pursuing professional careers as well as for Nubian women and slum dwellers. To date, over 300 women have completed the programme in Egypt and, said Saleh, “It started as a community programme aimed at empowering women in underprivileged areas. It’s now attracting participants from multi-national companies, along with those working in secondary and tertiary education. The programme continues to prove its value to all women, regardless of their background, work status and so on.” Saleh commented that not all the programmes throughout the region are subsidised but, rather,
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