Light of Life Luxor is an aid project for the poorest residents of Luxor.
Aid consists of the monthly distribution of food parcels, incidental emergency aid such as the ceiling and projects that aim to create structural improvement, such as setting up a school and a health center.

Unfortunately, after the Revolution in Egypt in 2011, the economy only went downhill. The overall living situation has become difficult, if not extremely difficult, for many people. A large group can hardly or no longer meet their daily basic needs.
That is why we started a ‘food bank’ together with a few local people, Dutch friends and sponsors.
We currently support more than 30 single women, families where a partner can no longer support the family, but also vulnerable people who have been rejected by society.
We can provide these people and families with a monthly food package containing the essentials such as rice, oil, beans, macaroni, sugar, salt, flour (if they have an oven) and tea.

In addition, in 2018 we started supporting the setting up of a kindergarten. After all, education is the start for further development of children and adults. The school was now completed in 2019 and is running successfully with two permanent teachers and active support from the local imam. Our dream is to realize a health center on the second floor of this building that offers basic medical services as well as literacy classes for adults. The school building already fulfills the role of a social hub in the community.

Initiator: Sabine Borkes
After 20 years of experience in Social Work in the Netherlands and my desire for new challenges, I chose to go to Egypt and have lived in Luxor since 2007. I am moved by the need that arose after the revolution in 2011 and the decline in tourism and therefore economic conditions. I had no choice but to get started with that. Because I still had many contacts in the Netherlands, I managed to find and inspire the first sponsors for this project. The project has been around for many years now and despite its small-scale nature, we have already been able to help many people. My dream is to grow the project further so that we can help more people. The need is great here.

This project is led by Eid, an Egyptian born and raised in Luxor. He works in a shop in the Souk near Luxor Temple. He knows Luxor society from the inside out. Know who is really in need and needs to be helped. Because he is well-known in Luxor society, social control works automatically; This means that the help provided is not abused. The strength is that he is the direct contact with the people, not the Dutch.

The project is supported from the Netherlands by Pamela Kribbe. She has visited Luxor a number of times and seen with her own eyes what is going on. Pamela and her husband Gerrit are involved in, among other things, the site.

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