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The Annual Bazaar at held on March 20th, 2009 at St. Joseph International & American Schools, Hadaba, on the occasion of Mother's Day. Over the past few years, St. Joseph's school held an annual Mother's day Bazaar, This occasion has become a festival in the community of Sharm El Sheikh and one of the most popular events that we look forward to each year. This year the proceeds from the charity bazaar will be split between the "Charity for Poor and the Homeless", "the Children's Cancer Hospital" and "Taleb wa Taleba" an organization that helps students whose families cannot afford [...]

Join the Clean Sharm Initiative on the 2nd Clean Up Day. Meeting point: Makani Bakery, HADABA Date: Saturday, 28th of March Meeting time: 10 am

This issue contains: Positive tourism numbers likely to drop in 2009 CDWS goes live Clean Sharm and more... http://sharmpro.com/newsletter

An international conference on Gaza reconstruction comprising the US, Russia, the EU, the Arab League and the UN will be held in Sharm on March 2. Hosted by Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are set to attend the conference. Some 60 other delegates, including officials, bankers and industrialists are also expected.

Need to make space for the spring to arrive? Want to sell some items? This is your chance….. On 7th March 2009 from 10am-2pm a FLEAMARKET will take place at the French School. No tables will be provided, just sign up for your space at the cost of L.E. 30 with Bea (010 10 40 463) by March 5th latest. Food and drinks will be available. Seller or Buyer - come and join the fun!

New on this site the Real Estate Market. Due to to many offers and searches on the Pin Board we decided to offer a new section. Also real estate agents are welcome to use the site. SharmPRO offers a Premium service with top listing, full info page, pictures, maps. Check out this new Real Estate Market

Since some weeks the new traffic rules seem to be the talk of the town. High fines will be applied. Some fines of the new law implemented since August were published in the SharmPRO Newsletter. Check new Traffic Rules on SharmPRO Newsletter.

Google's search service has been hit by technical problems, with users unable to access search results. For a period on Saturday, all search results were flagged as potentially harmful, with users warned that the site "may harm your computer". Users who clicked on their preferred search result were advised to pick another one. Google attributed the fault to human error and said most users were affected for about 40 minutes. "What happened? Very simply, human error," wrote Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user experience, on the Official Google Blog. The internet search engine works with stopbadware.org to ascertain [...]

SWC goes green! After completing its first year of organizing our meetings the new SWC Planning Committee is ready for more action. And what is more important for our community, than saving our beautiful and unique environment?! Sharm el Sheikh is on the way to be announced the first example of a GREEN CITY in the Middle East. The first important steps have been taken by the local authorities: Free plastic bags are officially banned since 1.1.09, a new garbage collection company is working, and more. SWC wants to explore what we as Sharm residents can do to support these [...]