The Minister of Education and the Chairman of the Egyptian Stock Exchange Foundation for Sustainable Development

Dr. Reda Hegazy, Minister of Education and Technical Education, and Ahmed El-Sheikh, Chairman of the Trustees of the Egyptian Stock Exchange Foundation for Sustainable Development (the community arm of the Egyptian Stock Exchange), signed a joint cooperation protocol regarding providing the necessary technological support to special education schools and classes and renewing workshops.

This came in the presence of Dr. Heba Al-Sirafi, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, members of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Stock Exchange Foundation, and Sahar Al-Alfy, Director of the General Administration of Special Education in the Ministry.

At the beginning of his speech, Dr. Reda Hegazy expressed his happiness at attending the protocol signing ceremony, stressing that this protocol represents a wonderful model of community participation that we all seek to strengthen and support in every way to achieve its desired goals, to provide educational service at a decent level consistent with international standards.

Dr. Reda Hegazy stressed that the Egyptian state attaches special care and importance to students with special needs, noting that the Ministry’s strategic plan gives special priority to women, people with special needs, and children, and one of the priorities of the plan is to provide education without discrimination, explaining that there are 46 thousand children with special needs. Of them, 10,000 are deaf, and there are 146,000 integrated children in schools, noting that the integrated student studies among his classmates, which benefits not only the integrated child but also his other classmates in how they deal with each other.

The Minister continued that His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi also directed the launch of the “Companions Able with Differences” initiative, where the Ministry circulated the most frequent and common signs for the deaf in schools, which reflects the keenness of the Egyptian state and the Ministry of Education to make these signs recognized and the basis for the language of dialogue. With people with special needs who are deaf.

The Minister also stressed his keenness to ensure that the list of high school graduates includes students with disabilities, and a student from each disability category (integration).

The Minister explained that the signing of this protocol comes in light of the Ministry’s endeavor to provide an integrated system of services for people with special needs, taking into account international standards, paying attention to them and working to integrate them as active elements within society.

The minister said that signing this protocol with the Egyptian Stock Exchange Corporation; It focuses on achieving many goals, including supporting students with disabilities in special education schools and classrooms, by preparing the classroom and school environment, providing appropriate learning resources for them, and giving them priority by providing all appropriate educational experiences for them, in addition to enabling students to integrate into school activities. With their colleagues.

The Minister explained that this joint cooperation with the Stock Exchange Corporation comes; To emphasize its desire to activate community assistance activities, educational and health services, support the school environment technologically, renew workshops in some special education classes and schools, support the educational process by providing various means of explanation, activate comprehensive integration, create equal opportunities for people with special needs, train and qualify them, and provide them with Life skills and positive engagement.

The Minister also confirmed that, to facilitate the tasks of the Protocol, the Ministry will work to take the necessary measures to achieve the desired results in serving the educational process, and to provide technical support to the institution. To facilitate its tasks, as well as to cooperate in selecting special education schools and classes.

At the conclusion of his speech, the Minister expressed his sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Egyptian Stock Exchange Foundation for its fruitful cooperation with the Ministry to serve our students with special needs.

For his part, Ahmed Al-Sheikh, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Stock Exchange Foundation for Sustainable Development (the community arm of the Egyptian Stock Exchange), said that the Foundation will work in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Technical Education to bring about a qualitative change in supporting and assisting students with special needs and developing special education schools and classes by providing support. What is necessary in the construction and development aspects, in addition to providing classes and students with various devices and means of explanation that qualify them to obtain a better level of education.

He added that the Egyptian Stock Exchange Foundation for Sustainable Development aims to enable all segments of society to obtain community services based on applicable standards of social justice and sustainable development in order to achieve comprehensive community development.

Mr. Ahmed Al-Sheikh concluded his speech by saying: The Egyptian Stock Exchange and its Foundation for Sustainable Development call on all parties of Egyptian society - especially the financial sector and the money market - to cooperate to bring about the necessary development of education at various levels within the framework of the Egyptian State’s vision for sustainable development 2030.

The protocol signing ceremony witnessed honoring the top ten students who graduated from the Diploma for the Hard of Hearing across the Republic, in recognition of their excellence and to encourage them to continue their efforts and hard work.

On the sidelines of signing the protocol, the minister inspected an exhibition of works by students with special needs, which included works of art, knitwear, clothing, printing and textiles.

Students from Al-Amal Schools for Auditory Education in Abbasiya, Al-Amal Girls Schools in Helwan, Al-Amal Preparatory Secondary School for the Deaf in Zeinhom, and Al-Amal Martyr Aqeed Hazem Ibrahim School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing participated in the exhibition.