Nardeen Mounir

Egypt

Nardeen Mounir is an Engineering graduate from the German University in Cairo in 2009 and worked as a teaching assistance in the same university. She soon quit to start a company with a friend called Life Creations in 2011. In 2013, She worked in a local NGO called Life Vision and worked on different projects related to women empowerment in Upper Egypt. Through that NGO, she was introduced to the women in Ain Shams as well as equipping her with the training that she then used to teach those women.

Business description

Arzaq is a workshop that started as a small project to empower the local women by teaching them to sew clothes. Eventually, they started to sell fisherman pants and the business expanded to become an online tailoring store that custom-makes everyday clothes, bedsheets, bags, and home décor products using materials sourced from local markets sold at reasonable prices.