Eyon Misr is a chain of schools, child creativity centers and educational enhancement programs to develop students into good effective citizens, thinkers, innovators, and leaders, who can coexist and collaborate in a diverse world.
The Coptic Church embarked on an ambitious initiative to build schools in Egypt, as well as extending its hand to support the education of refugee children in Cairo, through a school that has been established specifically for this group. Following the footsteps of Jesus Christ, the Coptic Church is also extending support to African countries and has contributed to the establishment of the first Coptic school in Burundi.
The program also supported various activities related to education in Egypt, including the summer language teaching program in Cairo, the Egypt Eyes Center for Child Creativity, the scholarship program for education abroad, education grants, the technical training program for youth, and awareness sessions in various aspects. It works to enhance children’s creativity and help them realize their self-esteem, reduce the number of street children, reduce child labor and avoid school dropouts, make better use of children’s free time and summer vacations, and equal opportunities that ensure gender equality.
Eyon Misr Program consists of:
1) Eyon Misr Chain of Schools in Egypt:
1- Eyon Misr School – St. Mark’s School, New Minya District, Minya (September 2014).
2- Eyon Misr School – St. Mary’s School, Abu Qurqas, Minya (September 2015).
3- Eyon Misr School – King Mariout, Desert District, Alexandria (September 2017).
4- Eyon Misr School – St. George’s School, Port Said (September 2017).
5- Eyon Misr School – St. Arsany’s School, Boulaq, Cairo (September 2017).
6- Eyon Misr School – Karma School, Damanhour, Beheira (September 2018).
7- Eyon Misr School – St. George’s School, Sohag (September 2020).
8- Eyon Misr School – St. Joseph’s School, Giza (September 2022).
9- Eyon Misr School – St. Stephen’s School, Qus, Qina (September 2023).
2) African Community School for Basic and Secondary Education for Sudanese in Cairo (2014)
3) Burundi Primary and Technical Secondary School (Student Admission 2021-2022)
4) Languages Programs
5) Eyon Misr child creativity center
6) Scholarships
7) Youth Technical Training programs
8) Awareness Sessions
Eyon Masr Program Projects:
(1) Misr Eyes Center for Child Creativity
Children in low-income areas have little access to books, music and art education. To meet this need, His Holiness Pope Tawadros II supported an initiative to establish creativity centers in these areas, and the first of these centers was established in a slum area in Cairo that serves this need.
(2) Scholarships
From 2017 until now, scholarship opportunities in Russian universities have been granted to Egyptian students through the Pontifical Office for Projects to help them enter the job market and become contributing members of society. So far, a total of 78 students have taken advantage of this opportunity, studying in various fields, including medicine and computer science, dentistry, biology, chemistry, philology, engineering, oil and gas, megatronics and robotics, politics and social studies, economics, tourism, relations. International, advertising and public relations.
(3) Languages program
Since today’s globalization languages are no less important than school education, the Papal Office for Projects launched this program to increase the availability of foreign language learning for school students.
a) Summer Language Program for English (844 students) and French (441 students) – Total Beneficiaries 1,285 students.
b) German language for Nuns, Priests and Seminary Students – Total Beneficiaries 14 students.
c) Russian language – Total Beneficiaries 1,600 students.
(4) Technical training program for youth
In addition, in 2022, the Papal Office for Projects signed a memorandum of understanding with the Coptic Social Foundation for Development – EGYCOPT, an Egyptian non-profit organization that educates and develops the individual through distinguished training to create a workforce capable of meeting the needs of the labor market and raising the level of the living.
The Coptic Church has a long history of providing quality education in Egypt. Pope Cyril IV (the 110th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church) was a pioneer in the field of modern education in Egypt. Coptic schools have contributed to building generations of educated professionals in the country at a time when the need for education has increased since 1855. The Coptic Orthodox Church currently includes 29 schools operating in different governorates throughout Egypt, in addition to 11 schools operating abroad. There are also a number of schools affiliated with the Coptic Orthodox Church, which are under construction: 9 schools inside Egypt and 5 schools abroad.
Eyon Misr is a series of schools, child creativity centers and education enhancement programs to develop students into good citizens, thinkers, innovators and leaders capable of coexistence and cooperation in a diverse world.
And since 2013, the Papal Office for Projects has successfully completed the construction and self-sustainable operation of 9 schools, in 7 different provinces. These schools currently provide education for 6,032 students.
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