In the upcoming years, Egypt’s growing population will provide additional challenges to its already limited resources, social stability and economy. Accordingly, the Ministry of Social Solidarity launched an an aggressive two-year project called ”2 Kefaya (Two [children] is enough) at the end of May in order to get curb the number of children in Egypt, particularly in the most populated areas. According to Al Ahram Weekly, the project will be working with over a million women in the hopes of stabilizing birth rates; the project is also a collaboration between the Ministry and the Takaful programme. The latter provides access to jobs, literacy courses and income support to poor households with children younger than 18. The project, launched by the Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali, hopes to target all women: women who have already had at least one child in order to stress the importance of spacing child births, women with two to three children in the hopes of dissuading them from raising larger families. 2 Kefaya also seeks to provide free birth control to families and is cooperating with 100 local NGOs which will develop family clinics and which…
Two Is Enough: Egypt’s Family Planning Project Aims to Curb Population
June 9, 2018
