Young Egyptians living in Istanbul, Turkey, did not cease to continue their charitable activities, and took advantage of the coming of the month of fasting to start the "Ramadan Bag" initiative, which aims to help Egyptian families residing there and meet the hardship of life with the difficulties of exile.
According to Abdul Rahman Badawi, one of the volunteers in the campaign, they are presenting a "Ramadan bag" for the second year in a row, after the initiative started last year in conjunction with the outbreak of the Corona virus and its effects, which included many.
But Badawi explained to Al-Jazeera Net that preparations began early this year after well-off Egyptians took the initiative to donate money and foodstuffs before the advent of the holy month of fasting.
The initiative targets 400 families living inside and outside Istanbul, where food supplies are provided for a month, according to Badawi, while his colleague Muhammad Rashad indicated the intensity of turnout on the part of Egyptian youth to participate in the campaign, describing this to Al-Jazeera Net as a positive spirit that provides a message that That the Egyptians are helping each other
Multiple initiatives
The Egyptian Youth Campaign was established in Istanbul in 2020, and their first initiative was at the end of March of the same year to support the Egyptians affected by the Corona pandemic, and a thousand people benefited from it, and the second came after 9 months, as it provided aid to alleviate the difficulty of the winter cold for the affected Egyptians and Arabs, especially from The third was the "chastity" initiative in March 2021, which aims to help young Egyptians in Istanbul who are about to marry for those whose financial circumstances do not allow this.
The number of Egyptians in Turkey is about 40 thousand, according to official estimates, and most of them are concentrated in the city of Istanbul, which has become a settlement for a large number of Egyptian families in recent years with the departure of numbers of opponents from Egypt to escape the tyranny of power, as well as the migration of other numbers of Egyptian youth. In search of job opportunities and a better life.