A delegation of the Planning Ministry visited on Friday poor villages in South Sinai governorate over three days to know their development needs.

During the visits, a series of meetings with the locals were held to follow up on their basic needs and projects currently established there.

Assistant Minister of Planning and Economic Development for Follow-up Affairs of the Sustainable Development Plan Gamil Helmy asserted the importance of field visits to monitor the actual needs of the residents of the villages, which are integrated with the databases provided by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, to determine indicators of the current development status in the villages to introduce an integrated development program for each village.

The ministerial delegation was accompanied by representatives of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development and Ain Shams University.

Source: State Information Service Egypt