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How Egypt hopes to protect, educate street children

Egypt wants to save its street children and bank on them as a future workforce to develop the society.
Street children pose for a photograph in Tahrir Square, the focus of the February 2011 Egyptian revolution, after the end of voting in the presidential election in Cairo June 17, 2012. Egypt's Islamists claimed a narrow lead on Monday in vote-counting for the presidential election but the generals who have run the country since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak issued new rules that made clear real power remains with the army. REUTERS/Steve Crisp (EGYPT - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR33SR7
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CAIRO — In an effort to address the worsening plight of Egypt’s street children, the Egyptian government launched the "Homeless Children" initiative on April 8 to accommodate 10,000 street children.

The government, represented by the Ministry of Social Solidarity, also announced that it is working on a program called “Takaful and Karama” ("Solidarity and Dignity"), which gives cash payments to families in order to help them take their runaway children back in.

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