Yasser Abeullah
Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine el-Qabbag and Dr Nuria Sanz, Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science in the Arab Countries met on Wednesday for talks on future prospects for co-operation in various fields.
The minister hailed UNESCO’s efforts to preserve the culture and heritage of various countries, stressing the importance of co-operation in expanding production and marketing for environmentally-friendly heritage products in addition to developing training centres for productive families.
The minister spoke of the need to develop the Rural and Environmental Industries Support Fund for economic empowerment and promoting rural and environmental industries, handicrafts, heritage products, and local food industries.
Co-operation is important with regard to the Mawaddah programme, sponsored by the ministry to support people who are about to marry, family counseling and confronting domestic violence, el-Qabbag added.
She also suggested the expansion of an awareness programme for community development to include climate change issues and the importance of education.
El-Qabbag stressed the need to support the STEAM curriculum in schools and co-operation with the anthropology and archeology departments of the American University in Cairo in training university students.
For her part, Dr Sanz praised ministry efforts to establish an electronic platform for civil society organisations.
Sanz also asked the minister to provide UNESCO with a list of cultural civil society institutions, noting the need to co-operate with the ministry in holding exhibitions for productive families to display cultural and heritage products in museums in order to boost job creation in the economic sector.
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