Cleaning Campaign
El Zaar is a small village, located in Minya Governorate. The residents suffer from piles of garbage waste including the village canal banks. The environmental development and community empowerment & sustainability programs cooperated and organized a cleaning campaign with the local council in Delga and integrated the residents of the village. In addition, the program established a waste management committee to discuss the problem of waste management fines and garbage compilation in the village, and made several initiatives to overcome this problem. Finally, the committee and the residents succeeded to remove 148 tons of waste from local streets.
Coptic Orthodox Church signed a protocol with the Ministry of Environment.
- The agreement was singed by His Holiness Pope Tawadros II and the Minister and launched the environmental declaration to support the government's efforts in environmental preservation and climate change mitigation. In addition, the church published an environmental document regarding this matter.