The Solidarity and Dignity Program is the focus of the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s efforts to enhance social protection
The Solidarity and Dignity Program is the focus of the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s efforts to enhance social protection
The Solidarity and Dignity Program is a broad door through which the Ministry of Social Solidarity – under the leadership of Dr. Maya Morsi – works to strengthen tireless national efforts; In order to achieve social protection on the ground, and in accordance with the axes of “Egypt Vision 2030” and the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This national program aims to support families in need, provide a decent life, and link all initiatives to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as eliminating poverty, empowering women, empowering youth, and promoting social justice.
Through this program, national policies are transformed into practical measures that directly affect the lives of citizens, ensuring that support and services reach the most needy groups in a sustainable and effective manner, which reflects the state’s commitment to building an integrated and socially and economically stable society.
In this context, the role of theThe Earth Guards Foundation is highlighted, which highlights the latest and most prominent national efforts implemented by the Ministry of Social Solidarity in the past few days under the leadership of Dr. Maya Morsi, emphasizing how the Solidarity and Dignity Program constitutes a major axis in the social protection network. So keep reading.
National inventory of nurseries
Within the framework of promoting the goals of solidarity and dignity, the Minister of Social Solidarity, Dr. Maya Morsi, chaired a meeting to follow up on the comprehensive national inventory of nurseries nationwide. This inventory comes to develop the early childhood sector, and link it – directly – to improving the quality of life of families benefiting from the program, through the establishment of a national database of facilities working with children from the age of one to four years.
Perhaps the numbers reveal the size of this national effort. The inventory process took about 95 days, with the participation of nearly 2,000 individuals, including social pioneers and experts. This reflects the breadth of the project’s scope and the extent of its impact in consolidating social justice and supporting families through the Solidarity and Dignity program.
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ولا تقتصر جهود البرنامج على الدعم النقدي، بل تمتد إلى توفير الاحتياجات الغذائية، وهو ما يتجسد في مطابخ “المحروسة” بالإسكندرية وطنطا، بالتعاون بين وزارتي التضامن الاجتماعي والأوقاف. وتقدم هذه المطابخ وجبات يومية للأسر الأولى بالرعاية، مع فتح فرص عمل للمرأة المعيلة، بما يعزز أهداف تكافل وكرامة في توفير حياة كريمة للأسرة المصرية.
وتسهم هذه المبادرة في ربط برامج الدعم الغذائي بالتمكين الاقتصادي والاجتماعي؛ مما يعكس المنظور الشامل للوزارة في بناء شبكة حماية متكاملة، وفق “رؤية مصر 2030.
Empowering Persons with Disabilities
As part of its efforts to support persons with disabilities, the Ministry of Social Solidarity organized the “Second Wheelchair Specification Course” at the headquarters of the National Foundation for Family and Community Development. The course lasted 3 days under the coordination and supervision of the General Administration of Support and Empowerment.
The course included learning about the different types of wheelchairs, and ways to describe them scientifically and technically, in addition to training participants to accurately assess the needs of beneficiaries, ensuring that the most appropriate chair is chosen in terms of size, weight, degree of disability, and nature of use, and in a way that enhances the quality of service provided to people with disabilities.
This is in addition to the Ministry’s participation inThe Regional Conference for Promoting Reproductive Health for People with Disabilitiesin Jordan. All of them are efforts that contribute to supporting the independence and societal integration of people with disabilities, which is consistent with the program’s goals of promoting social justice and empowering the most needy groups.
Enhancing the effectiveness of solidarity and dignity
It reflects the international partnerships that the Ministry establishes with the United Nations Development Program and the French Development Agency; Egypt’s commitment to developing social protection services, in accordance with the best international standards; International cooperation has made it possible to support institutional capabilities and improve the quality of development programs linked to the Solidarity and Dignity programme. This ensures that support reaches the largest possible number of beneficiaries, and achieves a sustainable impact on the entire community.
In this context, Dr. Maya Morsi – Minister of Social Solidarity – received at the Ministry’s headquarters in the New Administrative Capital, the French Ambassador to Cairo, Mr. Eric Chevalier, where the meeting discussed the Ministry’s efforts in launching the strategic financial system for economic empowerment, and touched on the existing cooperation between the French Development Agency and a number of civil society institutions in Egypt.
Youth Empowerment
In a related context, the Solidarity and Dignity Program is keen to support young people through the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s sponsorship of the “Republic School Leaders” program, which aims to train and qualify more than 135,000 male and female students from various governorates.
This program aims to enhance leadership and citizenship skills, and link Egyptian youth to the state’s sustainable development initiatives. In order to enhance the social protection network provided by the Takaful and Karama program for beneficiary families.
Institutional Capacity Building
The Ministry also strengthened the Solidarity and Dignity Program by developing the National Foundation for Family and Community Development, including raising the efficiency of social care institutions and establishing comprehensive complexes for services for people with disabilities. In support of the institutional system on which social protection programs are based; In order to ensure the quality of services.
National Foundation for Family Development
In this context, Dr. Maya Morsi – Minister of Social Solidarity and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Foundation for Family and Community Development – chaired the Board of Trustees meeting with the participation of members, where the meeting discussed a number of organizational axes and future expansion plans for the activities and services provided by the Foundation.
Social care institutions
The Council reviewed a report on the activities of the institution’s sectors, and approved a plan to raise the efficiency and development of its social care institutions at a cost of 10 million pounds, in addition to examining a plan to mechanize the institution’s activities.
Comprehensive complexes
The Council also approved the opening of the comprehensive complex for services for children with disabilities in Giza during next October’s celebrations, as well as the opening of the complex for caring for children with disabilities in Ain Shams at the end of the year, at a total cost of 12 million pounds.
Associations Support Fund
The Ministry’s efforts were concluded this week with a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Fund to Support Projects of Associations and NGOs, which contributes directly to strengthening the Solidarity and Dignity Program by supporting associations and NGOs, and organizing campaigns such as the “Our People” breakfast and “Good People” competitions.
Through these initiatives, cash support efforts are linked to community empowerment. Which makes the social protection network more comprehensive and influential, and this is an actual implementation of the axes of “Egypt Vision 2030” and other relevant national strategies.
So, it can be said that Takaful and Karama is a cash support program and an integrated system to reformulate the concept of social protection in Egypt. Because it links direct aid and economic empowerment, and transforms social justice from a slogan into a daily practice.
From this standpoint, the importance of the role played by theThe Earth Guards Foundation emerges, which seeks to shed light on these transformations, and read them in a broader framework that goes beyond the limits of numbers and projects, to reach the deep meaning of social protection, which gives the Solidarity and Dignity program a cultural and moral dimension. It makes it part of a broader human story that Egypt seeks to write through its national agenda, “Egypt Vision 2030.”
