ACDA adopts the methodology of reducing unemployment through microfinance services since 1994. It started with offering loans to the breadwinners, youth, Children with special needs for increasing their incomes and improving the standard of living. As since 1994 till now, the number of loans reached 26,065 loans, offered to 11,684 clients with total amount of 105 million pounds, in cooperation with the Canadian International Development Agency, the Egyptian Swiss Fund, the Social Fund for Development and the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, and a grant from
Prof. Galal El-din Zaki Saeid.