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The program works in the ten governorates with the highest density phenomenon must be restructured, and the efforts made to
based on the results of a survey conducted in 2014, which are (Cairo eliminate it inevitably be intensified and focused.
- Giza - Qalyubia - Alexandria - Menoufia - Sharkia - Suez - Beni
Suef - Minya - Assiut) and the program's work will extend to four
other governorates (Ismailia - Port Said - Gharbia - Fayoum), and it
was found that the number of homeless children is 16,000 children
distributed over the ten aforementioned governorates. One of the
most important objectives of the “Homeless Children” program is to
protect 80% by providing rehabilitation and subsistence services to
them. The Ministry of Social Solidarity provided mechanisms to
combat the phenomenon, which consisted of 17 mobile units “cars
transporting children from the street to the social welfare institution”
and 19 social welfare institutions to receive these Children and their
rehabilitation, and the integration of 60% of them into families or
care homes, in addition to reducing the percentage of children
dropping out of the street by 60%, establishing a sustainable
mechanism for monitoring and managing the file, and raising
societal awareness of this issue.
The “Protection of Homeless Children” program cooperates with 4
other ministries to serve the “street children” file and combat the
phenomenon, namely the Ministry of Health, where it receives
infected cases, and the Ministry of Education, where they are
reintegrated into education again, as there are those who dropped out
of it and those who did not enter it in the first place, and the Ministry
of Interior The Civil Status Sector to verify the child’s data, as well
as the Ministry of Social Solidarity.
But it is unfortunate to mention that some see the harvest of this
program as very little and not bearing fruit, and others believe that
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the number of children is much more than 16,000, as the number of
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children in the street is constantly increasing and this still constitutes
a decisive threat, whether on these children in particular or society in
general, the issue, even if
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improve the situation, so the mechanisms for confronting this

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