Egypt
Egypt is hosting refugees and asylum seekers from more than 60 countries including Syria, Sudan, Eritrea and Iraq. These people live in precarious conditions and their children suffer from the effects of forced displacement. Tensions between refugees and host communities are common and many children are at risk of exploitation and violence. Terre des hommes provides them with psychosocial assistance and protection. We also support young people in contact and conflict with the law through trainings of formal and informal justice actors and community based protection services.
What we do
Child Protection
Children and Youth in Migration
Acccess to Justice
Key projects
Watch our video about the reintegration of children in conflict with the law:
Instead of going to school, Islam made wooden furniture for ten hours every day. Tdh helped him go back to school so he could learn to read and write. Today, he has high hopes for the future.
Islam, a former furniture maker in Damietta
Read more...Terre des hommes in Egypt
Beneficiaries 2018
144,581 people
Expatriate / local employees
1 / 426
Budget 2019
CHF 4,234,645.-
Where we work
Supported by
Financial partners
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency with the mandate to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself. It assists in voluntary repatriation, local integration or settlement in a third country. Tdh and the UNHCR cooperate particularly in Columbia, Egypt and Burkina Faso.
> www.unhcr.org
Financial partners
UNICEF is a UN agency that promotes children’s rights, ensures their development and fights against all poverty, violence, disease and discrimination they may face. UNICEF supports the activities of Tdh in various fields, such as in the fight against child trafficking, juvenile justice, malnutrition, in psychosocial activities or in emergency operations.
> www.unicef.org
Financial partners
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is Switzerland’s international development cooperation agency within the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). By providing financial means, it supports more than forty projects of Terre des hommes in several geographical regions. Terre des hommes cooperates directly with the SDC, particularly with the departments Regional Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Cooperation with Eastern Europe.
> www.ddc.admin.ch
Financial partners
UEFA Foundation for children: The Foundation works to improve living conditions for children, to ensure their dignity and to achieve the respect of their fundamental rights in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Terre des hommes is proud to be able to count on the generous support of its internationally renowned partner, the UEFA Foundation for children, to provide assistance to refugee children in Eastern Europe. In 2015, Terre des hommes and its local partners provided emergency aid to thousands of families making their way through Europe, in particular in Serbia, Macedonia and Greece.
Financial partners
The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) funds relief operations for victims of natural disasters and conflicts outside of the European Union.
> ec.europa.eu/echo
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency with the mandate to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself. It assists in voluntary repatriation, local integration or settlement in a third country. Tdh and the UNHCR cooperate particularly in Columbia, Egypt and Burkina Faso.
> www.unhcr.org
UNICEF is a UN agency that promotes children’s rights, ensures their development and fights against all poverty, violence, disease and discrimination they may face. UNICEF supports the activities of Tdh in various fields, such as in the fight against child trafficking, juvenile justice, malnutrition, in psychosocial activities or in emergency operations.
> www.unicef.org
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is Switzerland’s international development cooperation agency within the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). By providing financial means, it supports more than forty projects of Terre des hommes in several geographical regions. Terre des hommes cooperates directly with the SDC, particularly with the departments Regional Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Cooperation with Eastern Europe.
> www.ddc.admin.ch
World Food Programme : www1.wfp.org
UEFA Foundation for children: The Foundation works to improve living conditions for children, to ensure their dignity and to achieve the respect of their fundamental rights in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Terre des hommes is proud to be able to count on the generous support of its internationally renowned partner, the UEFA Foundation for children, to provide assistance to refugee children in Eastern Europe. In 2015, Terre des hommes and its local partners provided emergency aid to thousands of families making their way through Europe, in particular in Serbia, Macedonia and Greece.
The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) funds relief operations for victims of natural disasters and conflicts outside of the European Union.
> ec.europa.eu/echo
Timeline
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Annual Report 2018: Helping more children through innovation
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Helping refugees help refugees
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Egypt: football offers a future for refugee children
Aid provided to record numbers of children in humanitarian crises in 2017
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Related publications
Making an Impact for Children: Annual Report 2018
Courage no. 62 - Egypt: football offers a future for refugee children
Thematic Policy 2014 - Restorative Juvenile Justice
Egypt: Access to justice for children in Assiut
