Al Nour Wal Amal (Light & Hope) Association is an Egyptian non-governmental organization.The Association was founded on 1 October 1954 by a group of volunteers working at the Red Crescent of the welfare of the blind headed by Mrs. Istiklal Radi, The Association first president.Al Nour Wal Amal is a free boarding, educational institution, and a non-profit organization. Its members are as well as its officers are all volunteers. It opened its doors in 1957 to welcome 40 blind girls, of whom the school age children enrolled in the school, while the older children joined the vocational training program.
The primary aim of Al Nour Wal Amal Association is to fulfill the rights of blind girls and women by providing them with free education, literacy programs, vocational training and job opportunities in order to develop their potentialities and their special abilities such as musical talents, to ensure their physical and psychological health and to allow them to develop their own identities and become self dependent integrated members of the society.
Today, the Association cares for 300 girls and women.The Music Institute Orchestra began as a group of 15 girls, and over the years developed into a Chamber Orchestra of 34 girls, with all four sections; strings, woodwind, brass and percussion, and has become the most famous part of the Nour Wal Amal Association. Several conductors have contributed to its activities.During the last twenty years, the Orchestra was trained and conducted by the late Maestro Ahmed Abul Eid, who had succeeded in developing special techniques and methods to enable the girls to perform as an orchestra without the need to read the notes while performing, and without the very essential dependence on the famous “batin” of the conductor. The Orchestra is composed of blind girls with different levels of music education. The girls learn to play their musical parts separately and they train twice a week as an orchestra.
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Mrs. Malak El Sherbini
Mrs. Khairia Hashad
Mrs. Nadia Abaza
Mrs. Amal Fikry
Mrs. Nehmat El Berkawi
Mrs. Assia El Ayady
Mrs. Naela El Attal
Mrs. Nawal Zayed
Mrs. Fawkiya Shawki
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