After receiving the death news of one of her friends with cancer, Sally Ahmed Abdel Kader, a jewellery designer, devoted herself to providing psychological support to this group, by employing her expertise and studies in the field of jewellery making at the College of Applied Arts.
Abdel Kader, who is also a psychology coach, earned a master's degree with a thesis titled “Designing Jewelry as an Introduction to Psychological Support for Cancer Patients at Baheya Hospital,” which represents a training program for designing jewelry for breast cancer fighters.
In fact, her study of the art of jewellery at the College of Applied Arts prompted her to organize training courses and workshops for those interested in this type of art in governmental and private bodies, including the Ministry of Culture, Helwan University, and the Arab Academy of Sciences.
She also became a jewellery-making arbitration committee member at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport.
As a scholar, "Abdul Kader found that cancer fighters are the most in need of moral and psychological support, so she decided to go to the Psychological Support Center at Baheya Hospital and present her idea, which has been deduced in a research dissertation that includes three main pillars: design, psychology, and art therapy.
The courses included training for cancer fighters, making pieces of jewellery through recycling, simplified and wrapped wire, and shaping with wax and metal. Abdul Kader's program aimed to provide them with the most significant details of making jewellery, starting from the selection of raw materials, through various production techniques. It also helped some of them implement their own projects.
Additionally, she took a number of courses in marketing and entrepreneurship at the American University in the Women’s Economic Empowerment Program and participated in many training courses, exhibitions, and workshops for teaching different groups.
In conclusion, Abdel Kader hopes to promote the role of jewellery art in serving the community, especially vulnerable groups.
Contributed by Ahmed Emam
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