This campaign aligns with the education ministry's vision of inclusive education across all schools and its commitment to integration within the education system. This vision complies seamlessly with Egypt's Vision 2030, which provides equitable and high-quality education and training opportunities.

The campaign also aims to foster greater inclusivity, facilitate full societal integration for these students, and ensure equal access to education and participation while cultivating positive attitudes and behaviours towards inclusive education by encouraging understanding and accepting diverse learning needs.

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On this occasion, Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdel-Latif stated that "Egypt places people with special needs at the top of its priorities in implementing President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s directives and in line with Egypt's Vision 2030 to provide equitable and high-quality education and training.

The ministry also seeks to change society’s view of children with special abilities and strives to make them a productive and influential force in society, he added.

Abdel-Latif noted that the ministry works on improving the educational methods provided to those children and helps them adapt to society by integrating them into schools and improving the education targeting them.

In this context, the ministry has made prominent efforts to achieve educational integration in schools through several endeavours, namely, increasing the number of students with special needs in inclusive schools and issuing the ministerial Decision No. 252 of 2017, which stipulates that all schools should be inclusive, to facilitate the integration of children with disabilities and their parents.

Moreover, the curricula for SEND students were developed and harmonized according to the new education system. In addition to equipping and developing schools and providing technological support to inclusive schools, the ministry also partners with foreign and local organizations to provide technological support for inclusive schools and to qualify educational staff.

For his part, Mark Howard, director of the British Council in Egypt, said: “Ever since the British Council in Egypt began operating back in 1938, we have connected with thousands of students every year through our partners in education. Our enduring partnership with the Ministry of Education in Egypt is a testament to its long-term success. Collaborating with the ministry brings together Egypt and the UK’s experience, knowledge, and expertise to do the best work that we can.”

Howard hoped this campaign would foster nationwide awareness about the significance of inclusion for students with SEND in Egyptian inclusive schools. “By involving everyone in this conversation, we learn from each other and support students in obtaining their rightful education,” he said.

"The awareness campaign seeks to stimulate conversations about the inclusion of SEND students, which is an urgent issue involving a wide range of groups, including teachers, the school community, parents, and the community at large, to achieve educational inclusion in Egyptian schools by involving all students,” he added.

“This awareness campaign involves employing one of the British Council’s educational offers under its “Schools Connect” programme. This programme collaborates with education policymakers to develop a vision and action plan for inclusive schools,” Howard concluded.