These medical issues are routinely tested for as part of the child sponsorship program due to their prevalence among this Christian community. Though the program does provide monthly nutritional food packages, children still face medical implications regularly as a result of their poor nutritional diets. As Christians in Egypt suffer from economic persecution with higher unemployment rates, lower-paying jobs and fewer job opportunities, this leads them into poverty. Economic persecution pushes the children to experience medical issues and often forced neglect with limited access to the necessary solutions.

Hope House seeks to right these wrongs that originate in religious freedom abuses and indirect persecution that afflicts Christian families like Shokry’s. It is through the power of education that ICC hopes to see these Christian families rise up out of poverty and be alleviated from their economic persecution.

ICC will be highlighting one child from our sponsorship program over the next several weeks, some of whom are still available to sponsor. To learn more about ICC’s Hope House or sponsor a child like Shokry, visit this page.

For interviews please contact Alison Garcia: [email protected]