WFP, Egypt Launch South-South Cooperation Activities Through Luxor Coordination Center

The Representative of the World Food Programme (WFP) Praveen Agrawal and Egypt's Minister of Agriculture Mr. Al-Sayed El-Quseir Launched the South-South Cooperation activities through the model projects of Luxor Coordination Center for Sharing Knowledge, in a bid to enhance youth's economic empowerment, rural development, and promote sustainable learning opportunities for all.

In his address at the launching ceremony, the Representative and Country Director of WFP said: "The WFP and UN agencies believe that the ambitious and the transformed agenda of 2030 of the SDGs can not be achieved without the ideas, energies, and tremendous support of the countries of the global, where we live in."

"I take this opportunity to assure the government of Egypt that the Luxor Coordination Centre for Knowledge Sharing and Innovation to Promote Resilience in Upper Egypt is up and running."

In the same connection, the UN official indicated that the Luxor program also benefits Egypt's youth as well as many youths from all over the world through the exchange of knowledge and international expertise in support of the SDGs, in particular the goal of Zero Hunger.

WFP and the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture are working together to expand rural development to many villages in different governorates across the country, Agrawal told Sada El Bald English (SEE).

"We try to invest in something that brings knowledge to the people of Egypt and the entire world as well," he noted.

The event took place at the Agriculture Ministry Garden, where thirty two SDGs learners from different nationalities were awarded appreciation certificates by the WFP official and El-Quseir.

The event was also attended by a number of high-ranking delegations and diplomates from 11 African countries and three Asian states.