El Sisi commemorates Mother’s Day with strategy and grants to support Egyptian women

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi commemorated Mother’s Day with a basket of initiatives that he announced during a special celebration on Tuesday, which also included a long-term strategy for female empowerment by 2030, AMAY says. El Sisi also pledged a EGP 250 mn grant to an initiative that supports women-led SMEs, a EGP 50 mn grant to support women breadwinners in rural Egypt, and a 250 mn grant to help the state create the appropriate environment that allows mothers to work (watch the speech here, runtime 19:18).