Egypt. Protection, education, health and jobs

An African youngster studies hard during a children's education program at the St. Andrew's Refugee Services centre in Cairo in 2016

An African youngster studies hard during a children’s education program at the St. Andrew’s Refugee Services centre in Cairo in 2016, a partner program with UNHCR which provides financial assistance to refugee children in Egypt. ; Egypt is a traditional safe haven for refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
In the last few years it also became a major transit point for migrants attempting to reach Europe across the Mediterranean sea.
Longtime refugees include people fleeing from Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia in the South.
But in recent crises, migrant flows came from Libya and Syria in the wake of military turmoil in those countries.
Unlike in other countries, refugees and migrants settled among local communities rather than in refugee camps. The majority clustered around the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Government officials estimated that in additional to recent arrivals of several hundred thousand people, the total number of long term displaced persons could be as high as three million.
UNHCR, together with partner agencies, offered them a variety of services including basic refugee protection and registration and monitoring of transit routes and smugglers vessels.
The agency also promoted education, work and training projects and medical assistance.