Hemaya Association for Community Development is a Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organization founded in 1997 in Basata eco-lodge in Nuweiba, Southern Sinai. It is a proclaimed Association at the Directorate of the Social Solidarity with a Proclamation No. 46/ 1997. It aims at preserving the environment and developing the local community in South Sinai.

We work with a different perception of development. We try not to bring ready-made development to the local community! We rather aspire at maintaining the environment’s specificity, recognizing the interaction between the natural and the cultural. We help the locals discover who they are, what they need and help them reach their own goals, while preserving their environment.

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge….If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.” Gibran Kahlil Gibran