Minister of Social Solidarity Maya Morsi met Thursday with World Food Programme (WFP) Egypt Country Director Jean-Pierre de Margerie to discuss joint projects. The collaboration includes three agreements - worth LE60 million - concerned with women empowerment and that were signed with the General Institute for Social Solidarity. Through those programmes, training has been delivered to 70,000, since 2016, on marketing skills, gender equality and providing credit to rural women. The cooperation between Egypt and the WFP also extends to monetary incentives offered to parents to send their children to community schools - where attendance rate has reached 80 percent - with the aim of curbing child marriage and child labor among other negative practices. In that regard, the two sides agreed on achieving information connectivity for those families. Another successful project is providing additional monetary subsidies to mothers already enrolled in the monetary subsidies programme "Takaful w Karama" during the fir st 1,000 days in the lives of their babies on the condition of attending awareness sessions and not missing medical follow-up during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Until present, 70,000 families - out of 5.2 million families enrolled in Takaful w Karama - benefitted from that programme. Further, the two sides agreed on studying the launch of a big awareness campaign on healthy eating, and expanding programmes pertinent to economic empowerment, financial inclusion, and food security. Source: State Information Service Egypt