US to Provide $5Mln to Help Poor Egyptian Pregnant Women

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo announced this evening, Sunday, that it would provide a financial grant to the World Food Program in Egypt, amounting to $5 million.

This comes within the framework of completing the National Program for Social Protection of the Ministry of Social Solidarity "Solidarity and Dignity" to provide food aid to 40,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women from marginalized groups and their children Under the age of two.

US ambassador in Cairo, Jonathan Cohen, and the Minister of Social Solidarity, Dr Nevin Kabbaj, Assistant Minister of International Cooperation Sherihan Bakhit, Program Director at the World Food Program, Amani Gamal El-Din, and USAID Director Leslie Reed, in a press conference, announced the launching of the USAID-funded project with the grant to the World Food Program in Egypt.

On her part, Kabbaj emphasized that poverty is linked to poor levels of education and health and a lack of awareness of health care practices among these groups.

The minister continued in her speech, saying that the ministry's focus on mother and child health reflects the general health status of the population, which is a prerequisite for sustainable development.

Kabbaj stressed her happiness about partnering with the World Food Program to implement the project funded by the United States Agency for International Development, to reach the neediest children under the age of two and pregnant and lactating mothers in the poorest governorates of Egypt, ensuring that they obtain their basic food needs.