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The Better Life Association for Comprehensive Development is an Egyptian NGO established in 1995. Better Life seeks to improve the quality of life for the poor and marginalised in the Minia governorate, through a rights-based approach. It works in three main villages and several small affiliated villages, surrounded by the River Nile from the west and the Eastern Desert from the east. To date, housing has been improved for nearly 1,000 families and potable water and latrines provided for over 5,900 families. Furthermore, Better Life is the first NGO in Egypt to formally advocate and work on behalf of quarry-workers, fishermen, low-income farmers and their children. The organisation’s activities aim to empower local communities by improving livelihoods and health, reducing pollution, and encouraging and supporting them to organise around their own needs and rights, including with respect to land tenure. The organisation has also initiated innovative financing mechanisms.