By Rana Kamaly, BECAUSE “With Souq el Kher, we have the idea of the closed circle, where everybody involved benefits from one single event,” says Hanan Mahmoud. In her role as a management professor at Ain Shams University, she saw both a need and an opportunity to address it, and took action. This is where the incredibly simple, but very effective event Souk el Kher was born. “I saw lots of people, including myself, with lots of stuff at home that they don’t need, but are hesitant to give it away,” she explains. “On the other hand, I saw students and employees in need of that stuff, who wouldn’t accept donations, but wouldn’t be able to afford it brand new.” The next Souk el Kher is coming up in the second week of March, and it works like this: Mahmoud and a team of student and faculty volunteers collect clothes, electronics, furniture and any other kind of surplus, under the slogan, ‘what you don’t need is needed by someone else.’ ”We try as much as possible to make sure that the donated stuff is in good condition, and honestly, sometimes…
