Within the government’s consideration of social and economic dimension in border cities.

For the 10th time, the Ministry of Finance hosts an exhibition for border cities’ products.

The exhibitors...

  Within the government’s consideration of social and economic dimension in border cities. For the 10th time, the Ministry of Finance hosts an exhibition for border cities’ products. The exhibitors praised the government’s initiative of organizing series of exhibitions for traditional crafts such as leather industries, food products and wood crafts in the headquarters of ministries and public entities. The participating exhibitors and civil societies come from Halayib and Shalateen, Ras Sedr, Bir Al-Abeid in Sinai and Arish, Qena, Akhmim, and Shandaweel, Sohag, Asiut, Alexandria, Siwa, Aswan. An exhibition of handmade crafts, agricultural products and commodities for Ramadan started on Sunday, 31-5-2015, till Thursday, 4-6-2015. Such exhibition is one of the annual events organized by the Ministry, through the Central Department of Fiscal Researches and Equal Opportunities Unit, in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism. Head of Minister’s office and Undersecretary, Mr. Amgad Mounir, said that this exhibition  is of a special importance as nowadays tourism is relatively quiet ; especially domestic tourism which is directed  to Luxor, Aswan, Siwa, Sinai. The government is keen on facing such recession through adopting a promotional campaign to activate tourism, raising awareness regarding the importance of tourism, activating domestic tourism via encouraging the employees’ visits to such areas in ministries and public entities, especially in school and universities vacation, also Ramadan will be soon. The exhibitors accommodated in a Ministry of Finance’s employees resting place, without paying any charges.     Such exhibition targets to continue the communication between civil societies that are responsible for the most needy families and small industry owners that depend on handmade and traditional crafts.  Head of Central Department of Fiscal Researches and Equal Opportunities Unit, Ms. Ragaa Mansour, mentioned that the continuity of hosting such exhibition in the headquarter of the Ministry and its affiliates comes within the government’s instructions on supporting the citizens in the border cities and narrowing distance between them and the government’s employees. She assured that the employees visit the exhibition every year to buy their products as they are good and outstanding. Director of Handmade Textile Unit in Akhmim, Mr. Ali Abd El-Halim, confirmed that the retreat of  domestic tourism towards South Egypt affects negatively on the crafts’ positions that are depend on tourism, however the internal exhibitions have a positive effect, whereas they avail the opportunity to present these crafts for the society. He also mentioned that the citizens always prefer buying Akhmim’s products.