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Group Member(s): Pathitta (Earn K.), Suparuk (Ping S.), Laksika (Mild), Pannacha (Miu),
Thanawin (Fahlan)
Country assigned: Egypt
Development goal selected: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Type of Product: Marvelous Pyramid Booth
Product Description:
(Make sure it is clear what the product will look like, what it will include, and how it will be
organized.)
Trying to think of the idea that is the most unique and outstanding, we think
Marvelous Pyramid Booth, our product, can catch the most attraction from the visitors. We
will take pyramid from Egypt and place it in our school! Impossible; our group is going to
rebuild it at the classroom representing Egypt. We will use the advantage of a corner of the
classroom and build a pyramid-like booth with fabric. There will be no light get into the
inside of the pyramid. The interior of the pyramid will be decorated with mysterious
Egyptian style. Visitors will study about Egypt by walking through our booth. The floor of the
pyramid is filled with real sand. On the wall inside, it will be full of information and pictures
related to Egypt. Another interesting point for our walk-in pyramid is Egyptian food/appetite
that you will have no chance to taste it elsewhere. Besides decoration, traditional food,
information, and pictures, there will be a Pharaohs tomb where one of our teammates will
stand inside waiting to scare visitors who come to the booth and open the tomb. The
concept of our product (Marvelous Pyramid Booth) is to make learning not be limited by
word; the goal is to allow learners/visitors to experience Egypt with their five senses. Our
product will illustrate the urbanization and background information of Egypt plus some
specific event that take place in Egypt.
Summaries: (one paragraph minimum for each section with main ideas only)
Brief background of your country in written in your own words: ( post 1900 creation of
country + some major events that made the country what it is today)
Egypt's poorest were variously shielded from absolute hardship either by state
subsidies, overseas aid, comparatively low unemployment, or by remittances from
expatriates in the Gulf states. But now one in four young Egyptians is unemployed,
household remittances are low, mobbing and there is a shortage of subsidised goods. In
2011, Egypt has experienced a drastic fall in both foreign investment and tourism
revenues, followed by a 60% drop in foreign exchange reserves, a 3% drop in growth, and
a rapid devaluation of the Egyptian pound. All this has led to mushrooming food prices,
ballooning unemployment and a shortage of fuel and cooking gas causing Egypt's worst
crisis. The problem of poverty in Egypt remains unsolved since 2005 and it seems to be
getting worse. An estimated 13.7 million Egyptians or 17 percent of the population
suffered from food insecurity in 2011, comparing to 14 percent of people who suffered in
2009, according to the report by UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Egyptian
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). (UN News Centre, n.d.).
More people are moving into poverty than moving out. The poor spends more than half of
their income for buying only food to survive. The poverty continues to lead to malnutrition
especially among the children. Stunting, reflecting chronic malnutrition is irreversible and
stops children reaching their full physical and mental potential, WFP said in a news
release. In nine governorates across all regions in 2011, just over half of children under
five were estimated to suffer from anaemia, classified as a severe public health problem
by the WHO.
Egyptian Revolution was one of the main event that leading to Egypts poverty. The
revolution was aiming to overthrow the President Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian protesters
focused on legal and political issues including police brutality, state-of-emergency laws,
lack of free elections and freedom of speech, corruption, and economic issues including
high unemployment, food-price inflation, and low wages. The causes of this event are the
thirty years of dictatorship and autocratic rule. The dictatorship has an absolute power to
control over the country, which basically can do everything and make any decision. Good
dictatorship drives country to a better way or vice versa. But, Egypt, whose leader doesnt
manage the country as well as its supposed to be, suffers from being taken disadvantage
from the leader, leaving no resource for developing country itself. Beside the corruption,
dictatorship makes other impact in Egypt as well such as the emergency law, the fault of
constitution, economic distress, growing calls for - constitutional, economic, political, social
reform -, forging the latest parliamentary elections, the successful popular. Thus, people
started to protest and marched to the presidential palace. Their quest is for the resignation
of President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika
Brief summary of how the social issue (based on the MDG selected) has affected your
country (post 1945): (effects of the social issue in your country current situation)
The poverty is the main causes of overpopulation in Egypt. Due to terrible resource
management of Egypts leader, the increasing of population, the products are decreasing
which leads to the higher expenditure of the Egyptian government in order to provide
enough things that is needed for living. Because of the products and crops are not enough,
the cost of living is higher, causing poor people to start stealing things for living and make
the country dont develop. More children are reported to get malnutrition as well as other
disorders. Also, poverty goes in the form of cycle, to be more precise, poor people will have
less chance to study and gain less opportunities. When they grow up, they will have to
work the same way as how their parents do; the work which does not require educated
people. Some of them doesnt even get a job; one in every four young Egyptian is
unemployed. Consequently, the economics of the country is hugely affected. The activity of
the economic slowdown; less people spend or gain money, the economics stop growing.
The rate of tourism falls down. Foreign investment also decreases. Since the people in the
country lose its ability of to buy and sell thing due to poor, the investment from foreigner
has reduced significantly. Moreover, Egypt encounters another economic issue, inflation,
which causes the value of the money to decrease meaning people have to find more
money to buy the same thing. Plus the 30 years of dictatorship, 1981 since Mubarak
officially won the president until 2011 when he is revolted, the corruption severely worsen
the quality of the Egyptians life quality as well as increasing of the rate of crime and
torture. Egypts unstable economics and politic affect the GDP to fall down from 10% in
1980, before Mubarak is selected, to 1.8% in 2011.
Brief summary of what your countrys government has done to deal with the social
issue (based on the MDG selected): (policies in place and progress in dealing with the
problem)
In order to deal with the problem of poverty, Egyptian government come up with
plan called Egypts Vision 2030 or Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS). SDS is the
long-term plan which will improve the country and peoples life by 2030 which having the
development dimensions on social, economic and environmental. There are also some
new policies that link the community with the environment and use the tradition to help
develop the country. The strategy has already accomplished in many things to the issue
such as establishing logistics hubs for grain trade and storage to contribute to food
security, launching a cash-transfer program and increase the number of beneficiaries to 3
million poor families, and launching a comprehensive action plan to develop poorest
villages etc.
Egypt even has supports from outside such as the UNDP (United Nations
Development Programme) and WFP (World Food Programme). For over 50 years, UNDP
has been supporting the Egyptian government and people in their efforts to reduce poverty
and to promote sustainable human development policies. One of the UNDP Egypts
success is its long-term support to the Government in building and sustaining strategic
national institutions that have added significant value to improving peoples lives in the
country. The WFP has also helped by providing school meals, food security, buildings,
nutrition, and support for refugees. And while Egypt has not reached the anticipated targets
for poverty reduction yet, visible progress has been made to achieve it.
- Javarman, D. P., Jackmalipan, D. P., Rraheb, D. P., & Maps, N. G. (2014, March 21).
Egypt Country Profile - National Geographic Kids. Retrieved October 17, 2017, from
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/egypt/#egypt-pyramids.jpg
- History.com Staff. (2009). Ancient Egypt. Retrieved October 17, 2017, from
http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-egypt
- Egypt profile - Timeline. (2017, June 08). Retrieved October 17, 2017, from
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13315719
- Lowell, L. (n.d.). Social Conditions in Egypt According to the Millennium Development
Goals. Retrieved from
http://ucanr.edu/sites/uc_and_the_mediterraean_/files/110120.pdf
- State Information Service. (n.d.). Egypt launches 2030 development strategy.
Retrieved from http://www.sis.gov.eg/section/4098/4111?lang=en-us
- UN News Centre. (n.d.). Hunger, poverty rates in Egypt up sharply over past three
years UN report. Retrieved from
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44961#.Wfv7OhOCyt8
- Hamed, E. (2014, September 10). Egyptian official: Poverty main cause of
overpopulation. Retrieved from
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/egypt-population-growth-econom
y.html
Goal:
Our groups goal is to solve or at least improve the problem of poverty in Egypt which
is caused by uncontrollable population growth compared to governments ability to manage
the resource and provide the best public service that its people deserve. There are many
solutions that we have been discussing among our group member: control birth rate, check if
a familys economic background is efficient enough to support a child, and fund more profit
into the country.
World Food Programme (2017). What the World Food Programme is doing in Egypt
Retrieved from http://www1.wfp.org/countries/egypt
United Nations (2015). Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt's vision 2030 And
Planning Reform Retrieved from
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/15262El-Megharbell,%20
Egypt%20NSDS%2020150527.pdf