CAIRO — Increasing divorce rates in Egypt are accompanied by an increase in issues faced by divorced women, especially young divorcees. In this context, Nooun, a women’s magazine focused on social and humanitarian concerns as well as supporting Egyptian women, announced that it was holding the first session of a program to help divorced women in the first year following their separation. The session, “Managing psychological and social pressures for divorced women,” will open July 17 at Medrar, a nonprofit collective in Cairo.

The director of Nooun, Sandra Sleiman, told Al-Monitor, “Divorced women face many problems in Egyptian society, as they feel guilty that they failed to keep the house together and maintain its stability. Financial problems also burden them.”

Sleiman said that the idea behind holding a training program came with the continuous increase in divorce rates and the absence of an association to help divorced women adapt to their new life situation. “Most divorce cases in Egypt affect young women, who face hardships in coping with their new lives,” she added.

According to figures from Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, divorce rates increased by 10.8% in 2015 from the previous year to an estimated 200,000 divorces, most of which were settled out of court.