Cairo- AICS staff in Cairo visited the Egyptian NGO Hope Village Society (HVS), which implemented a project titled "Reintegration and protection of the social, health and legal rights of young women and street children in Greater Cairo Governorate" financed under the third phase of the Italian-Egyptian Debt Swap Programme. The NGO strives for the reintegration and protection of the social, health and legal rights of young women and street children. The visit took place to the NGO's center in the Mokattam area in Cairo, that at the moment hosts about 25 girls and young mothers. In three years, the project has succeeded in reaching out to more than 25,000 children and young mothers, offering them psychological and medical services, vocational courses in soap making and sewing, and provided microcredit loans for 489 mothers of children at risk for a total of EGP 1,917,000.
