{"id":589551,"date":"2023-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/07\/05\/house-committee-approves-egp-1-bn-disability-protection-fund\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:00:00","slug":"house-committee-approves-egp-1-bn-disability-protection-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/07\/05\/house-committee-approves-egp-1-bn-disability-protection-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"House committee approves EGP 1 bn disability protection fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Disability protection fund gets go ahead from House committee:<\/span><span style=\"\">The House Social <\/span><span>Solidarity Committee yesterday greenlit a draft decision setting up an EGP 1 bn fund to support people with disabilities. <\/span><span>The <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/c285d7e5-470e-491b-88a6-63e022ea2531\" style=\"\">Differently Abled Fund<\/a><\/span><span> \u2014 which President Abdel Fattah El Sisi directed to be set up last year \u2014 will finance training programs to help people with disabilities enter the job market and run SMEs among other forms of social and financial support. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The private sector won\u2019t be squeezed to fund it: <\/span><span>The bill would obligate <\/span><span>the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">military\u2019s National Service Projects Organization (NSPO) to donate EGP 500 mn, the New Urban Communities Authority EGP 200 mn, the Tahya Misr Fund to kick in EGP 100 mn, the Suez Canal Authority another EGP 100 mn, and the Martyrs Fund EGP a final EGP 100 mn before the end of the current 2023-2024 fiscal year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">What\u2019s next? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The bill will be up for discussion and vote when the House reconvenes next week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">ALSO FROM THE HOUSE- Not everyone enjoyed last week\u2019s long holiday. <\/span><span>Member of the Republican People's Party Amal Abdel Hamid<\/span><span> called on Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly and the ministers of finance, planning, and manpower to reconsider the implications of extended public holidays after the seven-day Eid break, according to <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/504093\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Egypt-PM-questioned-by-MP-over-economic-impact-of-.aspx\" style=\"\">Ahram Online<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. \u201cThis long public holiday, which saw vital sectors like banks and the stock exchange closing for seven days, led to disrupting the interests of citizens and businesses and harming the national economy,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fund would help disabled people find jobs and launch businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7344],"tags":[72,274,187,190],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-589551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-watch","tag-enterpriseam","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-legislation-watch","tag-social-welfare","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"a98f73b6-4c00-4934-8065-6e4dd037ac74","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/7\/109.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Egypt\u2019s House Social Solidarity Committee approves bill setting up EGP 1 bn disability fund. 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