“In this past year, the number of families who have applied to sponsor orphans shows just how much people have accepted it. Reem Amin, a member of Egypt’s social solidarity ministry’s alternative families committee said its main goal was to remove the need for orphanages by 2025. “An orphanage’s main goal is as a stopover point before the child moves to a foster home,” she said. In the second half of 2020 as restrictions due to the pandemic began to ease, the ministry received 1000 requests from families wanting to sponsor orphans. Months later, Abdallah’s wife Merna became pregnant and now they are raising their biological son Soliman and Dawood, their foster child.

Source: Libya Today February 21, 2021 12:02 UTC