330 Egyptians ask for government help to rehabilitate their vulnerable-to-collapse homes

CAIRO – 6 January 2022: Head of the Complaints System at Egypt's Cabinet Tarek al-Refai stated Wednesday that 330 citizens from rural low-income villages requested rehabilitating their homes, which were vulnerable to collapse, as well as connecting them to utilities such as the networks of water supply, wastewater, telephone cables, and internet.

Those works will be carried out within "Decent Life" initiative worth LE700 billion, and targeting 58 million beneficiaries dwelling 4,500 rural villages, located mostly in Upper Egypt.

In a similar context, Chairman of the Civil Development Fund Khaled Sediq revealed in a phone-in Tuesday that negotiations are underway with a number of residents and workshop owners at Old Cairo's Hussein area, which will be renovated soon. That is because some buildings will have to be evacuated as they would be vulnerable to collapse, if not rehabilitated properly.