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The poor still have hope Stories and victims ..... that lead to the deterioration of society
What can write about the victims?....except the stories which they till us, and their begging for mercy, and to take into consideration their illness and old age, or to take into consideration the costs of living and the needs of their children for food..... what can be written about the victims? .... Every day their are many stories, that tell us details about the inability of Egyptian human groups who live with us under the same sky and the land that we call home. They tell us how they couldn’t find a way, except to cry, complain, and protest in silence about the times we live in.
The files of the LCHR are filled with many of these stories, especially stories about temporary workers, whom their number in Egypt is more than five million citizens, and who support more than more than twenty million Egyptians at least, and live by wages that can only be described as low, because they are not enough to fulfill even one of their basic needs regarding housing, food, treatment, children's education or other basic needs, that are necessary for a decent living.
The files of the LCHR are filed with a lot of other stories about pensioners, whom the government is trying to seize their money under the pretext of investing it. A number of entities estimated the amount of insurance money seized by the government to be more than two hundred billion pounds. Despite this government agencies are trying to stop the increase in pensions, exclude many classes of the poor, sick and elderly from having a pension under the claim that their papers are not complete, and complicate the procedures necessary for a person to have a pension, which normally amounts to only 70 pounds per month!…
All this have made us write this letter to the officials, in an attempt to improve wages, fix temporary workers, and increase pensions, in order to stop millions of Egyptians from turning into beggars and protesters…which threatens peace and social security…which are the responsibility of the Government towards its citizens.
We have presented the complaints that the LCHR receives to the Prime Minister, urging him to increase minimum wages to 1200 pounds per month, prosecute those who monopolist the markets, and to stop the rise in the prices of food commodities, for the safety of our country, and to ensure safety, liberty and equality for all citizens in our beloved Egypt.
For more information please contact the Center.