The Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt) Fund has carried on with its social protection convoys for the fifth day in a row this week to provide food aid and blankets to the neediest families in Upper Egyptian and border governorates.
The fund organised a convoy to the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena (456 kilometres south of Cairo) on Wednesday. It offered 12 tonnes of dry foodstuff and 2,000 blankets to 1,000 families there, the fund’s Executive Director Tamer Abdel Fattah said.
Two convoys were organised for the governorate of Assuit and the Siwa Oasis earlier this week, Abdel Fattah was quoted as saying.
This is part of the activities of the fund to support the neediest families amid the freezing winter season, upon directives of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, he added.
The social protection convoys have been organised in co-operation and partnership with several banks, and private sector companies, and in coordination with partners from the civil society.
The successful partnership with the social work parties has had such positive impact in the diverse fund’s tools to serve the eligible families, Abdel Fattah said.
Last year, the fund co-operated with 41 civil society institutions and more than 100 companies, which contribute to its initiatives and projects, besides the Federation of Egyptian Banks and more than 5,000 volunteers.
Tahya Misr Fund has reaped six records from the Guinness Book of World Records for implementing the world’s largest humanitarian aid convoys in 2020 and 2021.
The initiative’s charity activities involve six key programmes that include the “Health Care Programme” whose initiatives aim at treating children with muscular dystrophy and the “Urban Development Programme,” which participates in the development of slums and the establishment of alternative cities for their residents, such as cities of “Bashayer al-Khair” in Alexandria and Asmarat in Cairo.
