The United Bank Sponsors "Hand in Hand" Forum for Disabilities Employment in Collaboration with Rotary Egypt 

26/04/2025

The United Bank Sponsors "Hand in Hand" Forum for Disabilities Employment in Collaboration with Rotary Egypt 

Cairo: April 26, 2025 
The United Bank participated in sponsoring "Hand in Hand" forum for employing people with disabilities in collaboration with Rotary Egypt for Community Service. This comes within the framework of UB significant efforts to support and empower people with disabilities and their effective integration into the labor market, which enhances sustainability and achieves Egypt's Vision 2030. 

The forum witnessed a large turnout and participation from people with disabilities to register and benefit from all available opportunities that suit their abilities.

 UB team presented an overview of the services and products dedicated to this segment of society, as well as packages of services designed to expand financial inclusion.
 
In this regard, The United Bank expressed; its participation in the forum out of a deep belief in its social responsibility role towards empowering and qualifying people with disabilities to suit the labor market requirement. This is achieved by providing all available opportunities for employment and training to integrate them into various activities, particularly the labor market, in a manner that aligns with their capabilities, meets their professional aspirations, and opens new horizons for a promising future and economic empowerment. 

The United Bank team also presented a series of banking services dedicated to people with disabilities at UB’s branches across the country, which include: 

First: Banking Services Axis 
The United Bank has dedicated 8 branches to serve people with disabilities, providing banking services in accordance with the international quality standards in several governorates of the Republic: Cairo, Giza, Damietta, Port Said, and New Alamein. 

These branches have been equipped with a high-level infrastructure to receive customers with disabilities, providing the highest degrees of ease and smoothness of movement both inside and outside the branch. This aims to make the banking experience easier for them. More than 140 customer service employees have been trained in sign language to communicate with customers with disabilities, ensuring good and continuous communication to successfully convey banking information. 

Banking papers and documents required by customers with disabilities are printed in Braille to ensure a good reading experience for banking products and services, as well as terms and conditions, in accordance with the rules of The Central Bank of Egypt to ensure full transparency. Audio and visual informational materials in sign language are available to ensure continuous communication with customers with disabilities. 

Various types of bank cards, whether debit or credit, conventional or Sharia-compliant, are available with raised letters and numbers to make it easier for customers with disabilities to identify them.
 
All digital services are available through "Your Bank Online" package, which includes (digital wallet, internet banking, and mobile banking). This aims to facilitate all banking transactions for customers with disabilities around the clock, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the governorates of Egypt. Technical support is provided through UB Contact Center for customers with disabilities. 

Voice-over banking services are available for customers with disabilities to easily and conveniently manage their accounts with UB. In addition to 23 specialized ATMs serving people with disabilities are available across all governorates of the Republic, enabling them to conduct all their banking transactions easily and conveniently. Plus a range of distinguished banking services are offered to people with disabilities, including: various types of accounts, personal financing, real estate financing services for low and middle-income housing, and a unique collection of certificates and savings instruments in Egyptian pounds and foreign currencies. 

Moreover, Financial inclusion and literacy campaigns are organized to spread banking culture and awareness of the importance of economic empowerment in 3 governorates: Dakahlia, Damietta, and Cairo. 

It is worth mentioning that "Hand in Hand" forum for employing people with disabilities is the second collaboration between The United Bank and Rotary Egypt and comes within the framework of community support and contributing to creating a more inclusive and equitable work environment for people with disabilities. 

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