Egypt
Socioeconomic conditions in Egypt are unstable. This especially affects children from poor and refugee families who suffer from social exclusion and limited access to protection and education services. In marginalised areas, 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 conflict with the law. Through trainings of formal and traditional justice actors and community based protection services, we make them aware of this situation.
What we do
Protection and education
Migration
Acccess to Justice
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 2017
105,658 people
Expatriate / local employees
2 / 83
Budget 2018
CHF 2,298,596.-
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
Latest news
See all...New report about exploitation: effects of climate change and environmental degradation on child labour
Syrian crisis: the time for refugee families to return has not yet come
Syrian crisis: the time for refugee families to return has not yet come
The trauma caused by migration
The trauma caused by migration
Egypt: football offers a future for refugee children
Egypt: football offers a future for refugee children
Aid provided to record numbers of children in humanitarian crises in 2017
Aid provided to record numbers of children in humanitarian crises in 2017
Using sport to change children’s lives
Using sport to change children’s lives
Syria: giving families back their livelihoods
Syria: giving families back their livelihoods
Because every child has the right to a childhood
Because every child has the right to a childhood
Role Model Award: Terre des hommes receives an award for sports projects
New report about exploitation: effects of climate change and environmental degradation on child labour
Role Model Award: Terre des hommes receives an award for sports projects
New report about exploitation: effects of climate change and environmental degradation on child labour
Syrian crisis: the time for refugee families to return has not yet come
Related publications
Making an impact for children: Annual Report 2017
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
