Give A Hand Ministry

Who we Are?

Give a Hand is a ministry consisting of a group of Evangelical ministers and ministries affiliated with the Evangelical Fellowship in Egypt.
Give A Hand was formally organized in Egypt in January 2016, and now operates under the umbrella of Vision for the Future, a ministry founded by Eng. Fouad Youssef in 2006 (he remains chair of the board of trustees) with official status under the Evangelical Fellowship in Egypt. founded in 2006, with official status under the Evangelical Fellowship in Egypt.

Our Vision and Aim

Our aim is to rebuild confidence, provide a foundation for forgiveness, and introduce healthy, whole, and prosperous individuals to the communities of their new home lands.

Our Mission

Give A Hand reaches out with love, mercy and hope to refugees in the European and Mediterranean contexts.
Despite media attention, many of their physical and social needs continue to be unmet, and they still struggle emotionally beneath the surface.
This is particularly true for women and children who have been through the horrifying experiences of witnessing scenes and threats of violence and abuse, dramatic destruction of their homes, and the loss of parents, siblings, family members, and loved ones.

Achieving our Mission

• We engage refugees directly using language and culture to uncover their stories and their deeper needs for psychological rehabilitation.
• We send groups of Egyptian missionaries on a regular basis to support refugees psychologically, medically and spiritually at their places in European-Mediterranean contexts.
• We open the door to vulnerable adults and youngsters, for their psychological and spiritual healing, through specialized counseling programs, specifically developed to help survivors of trauma restore self-worth, strength and potential.
• We handle financial and logistic needs of travels, accommodation, transportation, gifts for kids, and medicine for our medicaloutreach teams as well.
• We network with partners around the world to increase impact and cost effectiveness through collaborative efforts and aligned resources.
• We gather experienced volunteers who are passionate and are dedicated to walking refugees through a healing and recovery process.
• We develop leaders who understand and embrace the inclusion of refugees and migrants into their new local communities.

Unspoken realities behind heroic scenes.

Humanitarian aid organizations struggle to meet surface needs: food, water, and shelter. But little to no support is designed with the refugees’
mother-tongue, or their culture of origin in mind.
Little is done to address the wake of painful experiences that remain, even as physical needs are met.
As years pass, the result is a generation of young men, women and children, burdened with depression, anxiety, hopelessness, grief, guilt, resentment, anger and fear.
And the victims carry these heavy emotional traumas through their lives and into their new surrounding communities.
But tragedies remain the daily stories that volunteers hear and see for themselves in the refugee camps scattered around
across the country.