The Decent Life Foundation is taking part in the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), which opened in Sharm el-Sheikh today and will run until 18 November.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Decent Life Foundation, Aya Omar, will review the Foundation’s role in facing climate change, in a session themed ‘The Role of Decent Life in Africa, on 12 November in the Blue Zone.
Decent Life senior officials will speak about the foundation’s unique experience in the village of Fares, Aswan Governorate, as the first green village.
Fares hosts 31 projects at a cost of LE650 million, 25 of which are under construction at a cost of LE588 million. There are also six finished projects at a cost of LE62 million, according to the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development.
The Decent Life initiative, launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in 2019, has established a small booth in the Green Zone on the sidelines of COP27, to showcase its role as a community institution in facing climate change impacts on human life.
The Decent Life Foundation will hold a series of discussion panels with a number of development partners inside and outside Egypt in the Green Zone to share the success stories of the largest development project in the world and its role in mitigating the negative effects of climate change.
The Decent Life Foundation also launched a project to plant more than 100,000 trees in rural areas across the country to combat climate change, reduce air pollution, cut wind speed, and increase urban biodiversity.
The foundation has launched a number of development projects in rural areas nationwide which include modern irrigation systems, lining of canals, the construction of drinking water purification plants, treatment of sewage, waste recycling, and the expansion of organic farming.
The initiative targets half of Egypt’s 102-million population that lives in 4,658 villages across the country, most of which have suffered from neglect. It brings about change in many aspects of the lives of people in these villages, notably by investing in human capital and raising the quality of development services.
Decent Life aims to replace the current dilapidated state of the Egyptian countryside, making it more modern and including all dimensions of sustainable development and dignity.
