Our Partners in Egypt

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Key Facts

• Capital: Cairo
• President: position currently vacant
• Prime Minister: Essam Sharaf
• Population: 82 million
• Religion: Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic Christian 9%, other 1%
• Languages: Arabic, English and French widely understood
• Literacy: 71%

• Life expectancy: 72.7 years
• GDP per capita (US $): 6,200

Information Sources: Foreign & Commonwealth Office; CIA World Factbook; Operation World (Biblica Publishing, 2010)

Alexandria

El Saray Church/Fairhaven School

Cairo

Coptic Evangelical Organisation for Social Services (CEOSS)

Coptic Orthodox Church - Bishopric of Public, Ecumenical & Social Services (COC-BLESS)

Deaf Unit

Diocese of Egypt

Hadana Kindergarten

Refuge Egypt

SAT-7

St Andrew’s Refugee Services

Salaam Centre

Giza

Shams el Birr

Menouf

Harpur Memorial Hospital

Minya

Jesuit Brothers Association

Upper Egypt

• The rural population of Egypt is 56%.
• 20% of the Egyptian population live below the poverty line, and unemployment is at 9%. Poverty in Upper Egypt is much more acute.

Development of Upper Egypt Trust (DUET)

Dorcas

Habitat for Humanity

Think & Do