As part of Shell’s social responsibility towards host communities, Shell Egypt is delivering a programme to help young people to start their own Small business.

The programme is called Intilaaqah, which is an adoption of LiveWire (Shell’s international youth enterprise programme) aiming at encouraging youth to set up their own business.

The programme was first launched in UK in 1982 and now operating in 30 countries . Intilaaqah Egypt was launched in 2004 and has been progressing and leaping to further heights since. Intilaaqah helps the young Egyptians to satisfy their needs to start their own businesses and to acquire the skills and resources to take their ideas from dreams to reality.

Its vision is to breed an entrepreneurial culture in Egypt among the youth and technically assisting their small businesses to flourish. At the early stages of start-up businesses, Intilaaqah recognizes that they face many obstacles.

These  obstacles are addressed by providing the necessary training and counseling to Intilaaqah participants. Intilaaqah Egypt has trained many participants and contributed in the creation of many businesses.

Its objective is to continue its strong and steady growth  in promoting and encouraging entrepreneurship and building the business capacity of unemployed youths to become self-employed.