Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, honored 25 superior students in the Faculties of (Medicine, Engineering, Pharmacy, Sciences, and Agriculture) with 5 students from each faculty from undergraduate students who received a grant from the Ministry of Social Solidarity within the framework of the cooperation protocol signed between Ain Shams University and the Ministry, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Abdel-Fattah Saoud, Vice President of Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Hisham Tamraz, Vice President of Community Service and Environmental Development, Prof. Dr. Ashraf Omar, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Raja Al-Satouhi, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Prof. Dr. Jehan Ragab, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Business of Community Service and Environmental Development, Protocol Coordinator, Prof. Dr. Hisham El-Hariri, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture of Education and Student Affairs, and Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al Sabbagh, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of Community Service and Environmental Development.

In his speech, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini praised the superior students, stressing that this meeting comes to honor them for their excellence and to encourage them to maintain this excellence and make more effort, wishing them continued success, and he also conducted friendly dialogues with the students, during which he listened to their opinions, suggestions and demands.

The university president also welcomed the activation of the protocol, expressing his deep thanks to the Minister of Social Solidarity for supporting the superiors for the benefit of the university's youth, and for enhancing their role in participating in the development witnessed by Egypt.

For his part, Prof. Dr. Abdel-Fattah Saud emphasized that honoring distinguished students and excelling in all fields is one of the important activities that the administration of Ain Shams University is keen on, to encourage them to succeed and excel as they are the true wealth of the homeland.

He called on the students to pay attention to student sports, cultural and artistic activities in order to reach an integrated personality that would benefit them and their dear homeland, Egypt.

He added that the university administration is working to provide all means of unprecedented support for its students, stressing that it will spare no effort in order to meet all their demands and overcome all obstacles, which contributes to providing an educational environment that helps them to complete their university studies successfully, noting that its door is always open to its students to listen to their demands and opinions.

Prof. Dr. Hisham Temraz explained that within the framework of the protocol signed between the university and the ministry, a solidarity unit will be established at the university under his supervision.

It is worth noting that the protocol signed between Ain Shams University and the Ministry of Social Solidarity focuses on three basic principles, namely the human right to development and cooperation, integration between the various sectors of the state, confidentiality of data and the privacy of information, in a way that benefits the public, the youth, the Egyptian family and society in general. It allows the existence of channels of communication between the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the university in order to bring about a kind of integration between them in providing a package of social services that the university student needs, as an Egyptian citizen, who represents a goal of sustainable development and is relied upon to contribute to its achievement.

Within the framework of the protocol, a social solidarity unit will be established that will work on three axes, the first of which is the axis of social protection and economic empowerment by providing protection and social development services, rehabilitation and integration services for persons with disabilities, economic empowerment services and financial inclusion.

The second axis is awareness and character building through holding seminars and discussion panels, distributing educational brochures and pamphlets and electronic platforms.

And the last axis is to support knowledge and experiences by making inspection visits to the Ministry of Social Solidarity and dialogue with workers, in addition to making field visits to development projects under the ministry’s umbrella, and volunteering part of the time for the benefit of projects or groups that the Ministry of Social Solidarity serves.

The deans and vice-deans of the faculties also reviewed the achievements of each faculty and what it offers to its students.