Current Initiatives
Four initiatives, one Delta. Every pin, every tree, every student is a real commitment we can point to.
Where We Work
§ 01 · خريطة الغربيةEvery pin is a real site — a school, a farm, a planting line, a workshop. Tap a village to see what's happening there.
- Hub HQ
- Green Corridor · North
- Cotton to Kind · Farms
- Delta Coders · School
- Heritage Hackathon site
Current Initiatives
§ 02Delta Green Corridor
A community-led urban reforestation project targeting Tanta's industrial edges to improve air quality and give shade back to the streets.
Heritage Hackathon
Local designers and developers digitising Tanta's architectural and Sufi cultural archives — from the mosque's calligraphy to moulid oral histories.
Delta Coders
A free after-school programme teaching public-school students in Gharbia to build with code, run in partnership with Tanta University's engineering faculty.
Cotton to Kind
Connecting smallholder cotton farmers to ethical fashion buyers, cutting out predatory middlemen and returning margin to Delta villages.
SDGs We Champion
§ 03 · أهداف التنميةEvery hub in the Global Shapers network commits to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Ours are chosen for what the Delta needs most.
Delta Coders and school partnerships across Gharbia.
Cotton to Kind returns margin to smallholder farmers.
Programmes designed for public-school and rural youth first.
Delta Green Corridor rethinks Tanta's industrial edges.
Tree-planting, heat mapping, and air-quality advocacy.
With Tanta University, WEF, and local ministries.
A Short History
§ 04- •2019Hub chartered
Tanta joins the Global Shapers network — the first hub in the Nile Delta outside Cairo and Alexandria.
- •2021First Delta Green Corridor plantings
50 volunteers, 300 trees along the Tanta–Mahalla road.
- •2023Heritage Hackathon launches
Partnership with Tanta University's Faculty of Arts opens the moulid oral archive.
- •2024Cotton to Kind pilot
First direct farm-to-brand contract signed with a Cairo-based ethical label.
- •2026You?
Applications for the next cohort of shapers open every spring.
