Egypt releases report on measures taken to combat child labor

CAIRO – 14 June 2023: On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labor marking June 12, the Ministry of Social Solidarity issued a report on the efforts deployed by Egypt to combat the phenomenon by consolidating the social safety network, economically empowering vulnerable groups, and encouraging children to not drop out of schools.

The total number of children belonging to family beneficiaries of the monetary subsidies programme Takeful w Karama is 6,238,190. Fourteen percent of those are aged below six (873,269 children), while the rest are aged between six and 18.

The ministry pays the tuition fees of 480,000 students at pre-university education. That is in addition to supporting community schools in partnership with Misr El Kheir, and whose mission is qualifying students who did not go to school for integration.   

There are also 71 vocational training centers dedicated to teaching those children crafts and professions that would help them land better opportunities in the labor market.

Furthermore, LE140 million have been disbursed as loans to 34,000 mothers of schoolchildren at 10 governorates to start their own businesses and fund their families.