It is well documented that street children in Egypt suffer consistent physical and mental abuse, not only from ordinary members of Egyptian society, but also from the authorities. There are reports of up to 1 million street children existent in Egypt. Some information about Egypt's street children include:
Our generic plan for helping Egyptian street children follows:
In Egypt there are over 1 million street children.
We are aiming to help 10 children each year. This is the plan for our biggest project:
For education per child
Description
Costs
Comments
School fees
£15 p/year
These are fees for any average school a child in Cairo would go to
School books
£10
These are books for all subjects
School uniform
£20
This includes 2 shirts, trousers / skirt, jumper and jacket
Shoes
£7
These shoes will be of good quality to last them for the year
Stationary
£10
This includes pencils, colours, pens, rulers, notebooks etc for the whole year
Lessons
£80
In Egypt all children need to go to afterschool clubs in order to complete the curriculum if they want to pass the year. Although this is not fair for any child to have so many hours education, we want our children to have the same education as any average child in Cairo.
Total cost for one child to have access to full time education
£142
This makes a total of £1420 per year for 10 children
Costs for accommodation and care
Description
Costs
Total
Per year
Rent for flat
£35 p/month
For 2 flats £70 p/m
£840
Food
£5 p/m p/p
For 10 kids £50
£600
Total for 10 kids £2860 per year.
This is not all what the children need. We also have in mind to help them psychologically and emotionally. We have already made contacts with the mosque Assahabi in Cairo who have agreed to help us in different ways voluntarily and we already have youth workers in Cairo working with children on the street. They just talk with them and feed them with whatever they have been able to get as donations from local restaurants and kind people.
