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Friday 19 April 2013

Pay it Forward Dive Master Program

The Pay it Forward Padi Dive Master Project will train 8 local very motivated young Bedouins up to the level of Padi Dive Masters.
 
This small group of Bedouins will “Pay it Forward” to the Dahab community with voluntary works and especially awareness about the corals & the sea within their own community and to their families.
 
We hope that this small group will become addicted to voluntary work and will continue to contribute in the community  and move other people around them to take action toward the development of Dahab.
 
The training for this 8 young men is totally free of charge 
The Funds come from Karim el hemeidy who has initiated the program and is the instructor of this team and by the Daniela Hotels & Diving Family
 
The training will go through the following courses : 
 
The training will also include the following :
* A minimum 50 logged dives
* environmental awareness about the sea , fish
* knowledge about how to protect our reefs
 
The start of the training was on :

Pay it Forward Dive Masters Donations

The training for this 8 young men is totally free of charge 

The Funds come from Karim el hemeidy who has initiated the program and is the instructor of this team from their open water to their dive master and by the Daniela Hotels & Diving Family who support this initiative with all what is needed to complete it including of course all the diving material , air bottles , classes , equipment etc.

To our surprise we have received many donations already that we did not expect for our first project :
  • 02/03 –  Matteo Brambilla, regional manager PADI Middle East donated 8 t-shirts for the future dive masters as support to Pay it Forward Dive master project : Wow !
  • 02/03 – PADI Middle East :  will be donating  the Dive master certifications for our 8 new & motivated
  • 06/03 An anonymous donator, donated 8 PADI learning books in Arabic for our Team : Incredible
Thank you very much for your support !

Pay it Forward Projects

How will the team "Pay it forward".

The team agreement is to try to make community work in Dahab, to have a nicer city.
Already a huge step was made (still a lot needs to be done): awareness toward rubbish problem, and getting evolved in the infrastructure problems, and making some events.

We came to the solution that we need to create a non-profit association:
1_ To bring as much as possible people and business to cooperate together for the same objective: To have a "nicer city" which will be beneficial to every one living and visiting Dahab.
2_ To have a legal status, in order to be able to communicate with official entities
3_ To be organized, in planing and achieving objective
4_ To make sense to revolution, by making a change in the city of Dahab

These are the main steps (and some of the examples of the actions that we want to plan):
  1. A cleaner Dahab project
    1. Rubbish problem
    2. Construction left overs in the city and in the mountains
    3. Organization of land and sea clean ups
    4. ...
  2. Environmental friendly city project
  3. A nicer city project
    1. Reporting broken streets, walk ways
    2. Make speeding signs
    3. Painting street
    4. ....
  4. Education project
    1. Supervising the level of public school of Dahab
    2. Organizing training in the different business in Dahab
    3. Organizing small work shops (language, computer, basic accounting...)
    4. ...
  5. Employment project
    1. Helping in having a local handcraft production
    2. Helping find jobs for the ones that want one
    3. ...
  6. Dahab Events project
    1. Organizing music events
    2. Organizing carnivals
    3. International sport competitions (kite and wind surf, marathons...)
    4. ...
  7. Youth activity for the community project
    1. Making a permanent football tournament
    2. Making other sport (swimming, ping pong...)
    3. Boyscout
    4. ...
  8. Cultural and heritage project
    1. History of Dahab (Bedouin origin, way of life, Bedouin original names of places...)
    2. Museums (shell museum, geology, plants, ...) 
    3. ...
  9. Development of small touristic business project
    1. Like sand boarding
    2. moutain biking treks.
    3. ....
  10. Making a website for what is happening in Dahab
    1. With all the rules that should be followed in Dahab
    2. with the yearly objective of the city council
    3. with the event of Dahab
    4. with the non-profit association plans 
    5. ....

Pay it Forward Team


The Pay it Forward team is

Picture Selim & Eid Sobeh in their 2nd underwater clean up.
Selim Fereg
11/03/1981

Eid Sobeh Moubarak
18/10/1986

Gomaa Seliman
01/01/1981

Eid Hemed
01/01/1982

Hagag Said
07/01/1975
(Hagag is Daniela Hotel Manager, and has joined after 3 initial students left the group, he is very usefully to the remaining members of the group, since the diving Arabic books are written in classical Arabic, a bit complicated for the an average Egyptian).