Inside a small household store on the Bab al-Bahr Street in central Cairo, Ibrahim Mustafa sits among a number of kites he has shown to his street children after noticing that they have stopped making them in the summer.

The 76-year-old is looking back years ago, when the children used to shop to buy long strings and other materials needed to make kites.

Uncle Ibrahim sells the kite at a price of between 5 and 15 pounds depending on the size, and spends the gain on his family, and is keen to diversify the forms of aircraft to attract children to buy them, rather than addiction to electronic games.