Key Highlights
An overview of our latest activities and news
Building with Earth Workshop with GIZ
March 2023
We were thrilled to host the GIZ Egypt team last Thursday at our office in Cairo. To participate in "the Building with Earth Workshop". We equipped the participants with environmentally friendly building techniques, spread awareness about sustainability, and had fun playing with clay.
BENAA's 5th Anniversary
Feb 2023
We were pleased to celebrate the official 5th Anniversary of BENAA Foundation. We have invited our success partners and supporters who helped us to make an impact and be here today. The community’s sustainable development and resilience are the ultimate goals that we have been serving since 2017.
BENAA Participating in COP-27
Nov 2022
We were excited to participate in COP-27 in Sharm El-Sheikh among the most significant environmental and civil society organizations in Egypt and globally. We demonstrated and showcased BENAA's climate change fighting activities by meeting visitor passing by our both and conducting workshops.
Keep an eye on our social media and website to keep up-to-date with our latest activities
Our Approach
BENAA Social Innovation Pyramid
Our social innovation pyramid is a term coined in 2016 to describe our integrated loop of change-making; by producing and transferring knowledge on sustainable development, training youth and strengthening their capacities to implement knowledge-based youth-led participatory development projects with local communities, to achieve sustainable development.
Our Focus
Nature-Based Solutions & Sustainable Built Environment
Nature-Based Solutions & Sustainable Built Environment
Nature-Based Solutions & Sustainable Built Environment
We strive to take actions that maintain, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems in order to address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, benefiting both people and the environment. Specifically, we focus on improving rural areas' built environments and inhabitants quality of life.
Climate literacy & Community Resilience
Nature-Based Solutions & Sustainable Built Environment
Nature-Based Solutions & Sustainable Built Environment
We focus on spreading knowledge and raising awareness about climate change challenges and impact in addition to the best environmentally friendly practices. On another side, we tackle severe climate change implications in areas of water, energy, food, and weather through physical interventions.
Our Fields of Work
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Architecture
Aims at creating contextual, low-cost, sustainable architecture. Our work is a profound commitment to finding innovative design and construction solutions, with a dedication to vernacular architecture and the potential of natural materials. This is achieved with the help of a working methodology and a spirit of curiosity and experimentation and by creating sustainable human settlements through environmentally responsible, low cost architecture that serves as a catalyst for social development.
Educational Facilities
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Architecture
Aims to deal with any educational environment (schools - universities - community schools - etc.) by improving the education environment, facilities, and open spaces to create an effective learning environment between the student, and the educational institution and improving the learning process.
Water, Energy, Food Nexus
Water, Energy, Food Nexus
Water, Energy, Food Nexus
Aims to protect and preserve regional water resources by innovating prefabricated integrated water, sanitation, and energy solutions. And building a youth-led enabling environment by innovating prefabricated integrated water, sanitation, and energy solutions.
Solid Waste Management
Water, Energy, Food Nexus
Water, Energy, Food Nexus
Aims to collect, treat, and dispose of discarded solid material. As well as offering solutions for recycling items that do not belong to garbage or trash and through which, those wastes can be changed and used as a valuable resource. BENAA mainly focuses on designing and implementing furniture units and wood accessories with low cost and high quality recycled materials seeking for developing poor rural areas in Egypt.
