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Maggie Gobran or Mama Maggie is the founder and CEO of the non-profit charity Stephen's Children in Cairo, Egypt. She is nominated to the 2012 Nobel Peace Price.[1]
Maggie Gobran, often referred to as the Mother Teresa of Cairo, is a Coptic Christian who lived an affluent lifestyle sheltered from the poverty and misery that is the reality for most of the Christian minority of Egypt. In 1989, she gave up her academic career and set up the charity Stephen's Children, that has the aim of improving the lifes of the Christian children and families living in Cairo's slum quarters and impoverished communities in rural Upper Egypt.[2][3]
The situation of Coptic Christians have deteriorated after the Egypt Revolution, and this has gained new focus by the nomination of Mama Maggie's nonimation to the 2012 Nobel Peace Price.