INFORMATION BY COUNTRY
Egypt: Newsline
Drive to boost girls’ education
CAIRO, 5 March 2008 (IRIN) - Sahar Zeidan Abdel Wareth, who helps her father on the land, could not attend school until she was 12 when a “girl-friendly” school was built near her home in Assiut Province, some 375km from Cairo.
UNICEF Executive Director visits child-centred projects in Egypt
NEW YORK, USA, 20 February 2007 – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman has commended Egypt’s progress towards advancing child rights at the end of a three-day visit to the country.
Global partners meet in Cairo to advance girls’ education and early childhood care
NEW YORK, USA, 28 November 2006 – Education officials from Egypt and several other countries have joined forces with non-governmental organizations, UN agencies and independent experts at a conference in Cairo on 13 November to promote early childhood care and put an end to gender disparities in education.
Egypt: Improving health and literacy for women in Egypt
In Egypt, women are learning more about their health as they learn to read through World Education's integrated literacy initiative.
Egypt: Community Mapping Transforms Youth
Community Youth Mapping is a process – developed by the Academy for Educational Development (AED) Center for Youth Development and Policy Research – through which young people canvass local businesses and organizations and document where to find resources for children and families.
