The Egyptian government is encouraging families to take care of abandoned children and raise them as their own, invoking the age-old Muslim doctrine of Kafala.
This initiative, entitled “A family for every child”, is aimed at reducing the number of children living in the country’s 400 orphanages.
We hope that we can provide a family to each one of those children and get rid of all care institutions in the long term.
Some families choose to obtain the custody of more than one child.
We hope that we can provide a family to each one of those children and get rid of all care institutions in the long term”, he said.
