Decent Life Initiative, launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on January 2, 2019, to provide a decent life for the most vulnerable sects nationwide.
It further contributes to enhancing the quality of daily public services provided to citizens, with an eye to inhabitants of rural areas.
The initiative also provides health care, medical services, surgeries, and prosthetic devices to these groups. Moreover, it aims to develop Egypt’s poorest villages, according to the poverty map, provides job opportunities, and supports orphan girls to get married.
The idea of the Presidential Leadership Program (PLP)’s youth to launch that initiative aimed at targeting the neediest families.
The Decent Life appeared as a proposed initiative in January 2019, and the youth of the PLP could present their visions and ideas for implementing the initiative at the seventh national youth conference, in accordance with the vision and strategy of Egypt 2030 and based on the first goal of the sustainable development goals that seek to eradicate poverty, as well as the second special goal to improve and raise the efficiency of living of the Egyptian citizen.
Soon the dream became true after the Egyptian state and its various concerned bodies adopted this idea and the Cabinet announced the presidential initiative as a national project last January.
Thus, the national project “Decent Life” has become a direction of the state and the goal of the people that can be achieved.
The project has become a national strategy based on the concept of solidarity by uniting the efforts of institutions and inpiduals to serve the citizen and to ensure a decent life for them for a better tomorrow.
The PLP youth through the Decent Life Foundation, which is a non-profit charitable institution, were able to present several initiatives recently.
Decent Life Foundation’s Goals
The Foundation seeks to provide many services, including humanitarian aid and social services, developing the infrastructure of the villages most in need, investing in community members, providing social support, establishing cooperation protocols, partnerships and equipping orphan girls, as well as helping to establish micro-projects to provide a steady income to citizens and create job and construction opportunities.
As well as creating opportunities for talent development at the provincial level. Among its objectives are also: education and care for children and orphans and awareness of the target groups.
It also seeks to rehabilitate, train and care for people of determination, and to train youth and breadwinning women in productive trades. The foundation also aims to carry out activities in order to protect and preserve the environment.
Opening Door for Volunteering, Field Work
The Decent Life Foundation announced the opening of volunteering for fieldwork to provide support and assistance to thousands of families in poor villages in various governorates. The Foundation invited volunteers from various fields, experiences and skills to participate in changing the lives of many Egyptian families, by registering on the foundation’s official website. https://www.hayakarima.com/api/register
3 Stages, 5 Criteria
The targeted villages were pided according to data and surveys of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, in coordination with the relevant ministries and agencies. The first phase of the initiative: It includes villages with poverty rates of 70% or more.
It targets 377 villages most in need and the most vulnerable to extremism and intellectual terrorism, in which the poverty rate ranges from 70% or more, with a total number of 756 thousand families (3 million inpiduals) in 11 governorates.
The second phase of the initiative: includes villages with poverty rates from 50% to 70%: poor villages that need intervention, but are less difficult than the first group.
The third phase of the initiative: includes villages with poverty rates less than 50%: fewer challenges to overcome poverty.
The basic criteria for identifying the villages most in need include Poor basic services such as sanitation and water networks.
Direct, Indirect Services
The initiative aims to provide four direct and four indirect services. The Direct services include repairing infrastructure (decent housing): building roofs, raising the efficiency of homes and extending water and sewage connections. Training and operating: micro-enterprises and activating the role of productive cooperatives in villages. Preparing houses: the marriage of orphans, including preparing marital homes and holding group weddings. And childhood development: establishing home nurseries to rationalize mothers' time in the productive role and dressing children.
As for the indirect service interventions, they include Health interventions: medical checks, surgeries and the provision of treatment. Prosthetic devices: headphones, glasses, wheelchairs, crutches. Food baskets: Distribution of subsidized food items and food baskets to poor families. Environmental interventions: collecting garbage waste and exploring ways to recycle it.
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