The Egyptian presidency held a meeting on Sunday with young representatives from 25 political parties to discuss the state's endorsing of volunteer work in the country.
The meeting came as part of the presidency's plan to communicate with Egyptian youth on the execution of national volunteer programmes approved at the first annual youth conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh.
The first national project approved at the conference is the "Egypt Without Illiteracy" programme.
The presidency's media office said that the participant showed at Sunday's meeting their plans and views on the implementation of the "Egypt Without Illiteracy" programme, as well as their ideas on encouraging volunteer work in general.
The participants also agreed to present a comprehensive plan within 15 days, to be followed by a meeting with the ministerial group in charge of the volunteer work file, under the custody of the Egyptian presidency.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated last month the first annual National Youth Conference in the Sinai resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh with the participation of 3,000 youths from the country’s universities and political parties.
During his inauguration speech, El-Sisi said that the conference, the first session of which was focused on education in Egypt, should be used to “have a dialogue and raise hope.”
Regarding the education, El-Sisi said that the government cannot put an overhaul of the country's poor education system high on its agenda at the moment, as the country does not have sufficient resources to do so.
