Rotary in Egypt is considered to be the pioneer of associations that work in education at all levels. Egypt was the first to implement the Rotary International Literacy Curriculum (CLE) in 1998 in cooperation with the Egyptian NGOs and then we opened more than 2000 literacy classes of CLE in the popular areas of Cairo, Alexandria, Fayoum, Qalyoubia and Giza. Rotary Egypt celebrated the graduation of nearly 50,000 students in literacy classes established and supervised by Rotary clubs in cooperation with the General Association for Adult Education and the Vodafone Foundation, a literacy program was also implemented in cooperation with the Central Security Forces. Distinguished graduates were helped through offering them extremely small projects. In addition, Rotary has developed many schools and supplied them with furniture and educational supplies to provide a suitable attractive environment for students. Rotary in Egypt also offers university scholarships to poor students.

Rotary Egypt is interested in training in many specialties in order to help improve the skills and abilities and also to spread values and good principles among the Egyptian youth and encourage them to serve the community and encourage the youth for volunteer and social work including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program and through the annual employment fairs organized by Rotary. Rotary also gives technical and vocational training a special priority regarding employment and providing real job opportunities based on market requirements. Rotary is collaborating with several specialized training partners to provide training and job recruitment services through communication channels.

Maternal and Child health in addition to awareness are on the top of the list of priorities of Rotary. In the previous years Rotary has been a key partner in collaboration with the Ministry of
Health, WHO and UNICEF working together in prevention, awareness and treatment of C virus and vaccination campaigns were held to eradicate Polio in Egypt this took place in various hospitals and medical centers.
Rotary contributes to the treatment of children with cancer and heart diseases. For this reason Rotary established a committee for caring for children with Special Needs and Disabilities and this takes place through the institutions and centers that care for them.

Though the past 90 years, Rotary Egypt prepared a great number of hospitals and health care units and supplied them with vital supplies in Cairo and Alexandria and poor far villages of Egypt supplying them with medical supplies, medical beds, medicine, and intensive care units. Medical convoys were regularly held and also annual blood donation campaigns in collaboration with blood banks. First aid sessions were regularly held in collaboration with the Red Crescent. Rotary clubs in Egypt held seminars for awareness and protection against diseases and viruses in addition to the treatment offered by Rotarian doctors in their specializations. Rotary also supplied industrial limbs and wheel chairs to people with special needs and provided operations for correcting distortions and burn effects.

In 2013, Rotary in Egypt provided 9500 clean water connections and 1670 sewage connections to homes in marginalized villages and random areas in several governorates of Egypt in cooperation with UNICEF, Bank of Alexandria, Johnson, Misr El Gedida Association and private corporates that contributed through Corporate Social Responsibility CSR and institutions budgets, the affiliated associations in addition to the Rotary Foundation Global Grants. Those projects continued under the slogan “Water for Life”

Comprehensive development , development of remote villages, the provision of infrastructure and the creation of employment opportunities for employment of young people and poor families providers were the focus to Rotary in Egypt to help I Economic Development. Rotary in Egypt established youth centers and playgrounds in unused spaces that were previously used as trash spaces, libraries and kindergartens for children. Clinics and schools were developed. Rotary Egypt also provided revolving loans to women and helped women with debts to enable them to find jobs that help them to support their families and also to ensure that their families are not displaced.

In order to ensure the sustainability of village development, Rotary in Egypt has established a great number of Rotary Community Corps RCC, encouraging the villagers to follow up on the projects implemented by Rotarians. Rotary has also contributed to the national projects such as the restoration of the Egyptian zoo and the national awareness campaign for early detection and prevention Hepatitis C and other public health projects. Rotary was very active in the past 90 years in vocational training and reviving the heritage of ancient Egypt. Rotary Egypt also initiated a national campaign to support internal tourism in order to help workers in the sector of tourism who have been economically affected for many years due to political states that Egypt passed through.

Rotary has contributed to alleviate the pain of those affected by disasters and those who have become homeless in order to save them, provided tents and the necessary needs, providing quick aid, treatment, food and arrangements required, in coordination with government and private sector stakeholders