Our first project is the building of a pedestrian tunnel under the Maadi Corniche El Nile. It is dedicated to making the roads in Egypt safer for its citizens. I decided to do something tangible, something that would save other people’s lives.Īn NGO, the Safe Road Society, started because our daughter lost her life. But I felt that I had tried to make sense out of the senseless, the unbelievable. It would be very easy to do this and give up. I could roll up into a ball in a foetal position and never wake up. We came back to Cairo just a few months ago. My wife, son and I had to leave Cairo after Deana’s death. I think of ripples of pain, an ever-widening circle of those who were affected. For us, she has become the “Angel of the Nile”.Įveryone was deeply affected by Deana’s death, her family her friends, the entire community. She always had pictures or figurines of angels in her room. She wanted to be a paediatric dentist – she loved kids. She always had time for other people more than for herself. I could have driven her to the party.ĭeana loved so many things, she loved life. My brother-in-law called me to tell me the terrible news that my baby girl had been hit. I was in Damascus at the time, travelling for my work. Deana was hit and killed by a speeding bus as she tried to cross the road. You have to dart across several lanes of traffic to get to the other side. There are no traffic lights, no crosswalks, just a constant stream of speeding, weaving cars, trucks and buses. They had just got out of a taxi and were trying to cross the Nile Corniche in Maadi. Deana was with four friends going to a birthday party. She was 17 years old when her life was cut short.
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