Haya Karima helps promote volunteering culture among young people

CAIRO – 5 April 2022: Haya Karima initiative is improving the infrastructure and life standards of people in rural areas and is also promoting the culture of volunteering among young people.

 

Most recently, Helwan University said in a Sunday statement that the members of its volunteering unit went to orphanages, retirement homes, and centers for the disabled around the university to raise awareness on Haya Karima and its services.

 

The students also distributed gifts, brochures, and organized a one-day entertainment program for people in these institutions.

 

Haya Karima, or decent life, is a national project to develop the Egyptian countryside. It started as an initiative launched by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on 2 January, 2019.

It was then transformed into a national project early in 2021 with the aim of improving the living conditions and the quality of life for the neediest categories of the rural society nationwide and contributing to advancing the level of daily services provided to citizens.

The “Haya Karima” project seeks to unify the efforts of all the state’s institutions in cooperation with the civil society, the private sector companies and the development partners inside and outside Egypt in the sustainable development field

The project also aims, through eliminating multi-dimensional poverty, to alleviate the burden shouldered by the citizens, especially the neediest families in the targeted villages and centers totaling 4,658 villages with total investments estimated at LE 700 billion.

 This contributes to improving the life of more than half of the Egyptian population through setting an integrated developmental roadmap which its goals and axes are consistent with the sustainable development goals of the United Nations.

This comes through securing a comprehensive array of services and that include decent housing, health, education, culture, infrastructure, clean environment and productive communities to ensure sustainable development in the targeted villages and centers.