Farah, the little girl at the left is in 4th primary school. Her
father died, her mother, a housemaid, takes care of four children, one of whom
has polio.
This year the local
fundraising department has helped 290 children of Mattareya, Haggana and Boulac
to go to school. A scholarship of L.E.300 per year allows them to pay school
fees, equipment, uniform and remedial courses organised in governmental
schools. Without this assistance all these children would remain
illiterate.
These smiling and
happy children were left to the streets of Haggana before Caritas made them
welcome at its center. Now 80 boys and girls come to the center to learn how to
read, to write, to play, to colour and to draw, but most importantly, the
feeling of being loved has changed their life.
150 street children
put into three governmental institutions following a vocational training
programme in electricity, electronics, plumbing, painting or dressmaking.
Caritas, in charge of the workshops, wants to give to all these abandoned or
delinquent young people a chance to find a job for their reintegration into the
society.
