Vocational Training and Employment

HVS also seeks to train the children on a variety of handicrafts and conducts domestic training programs and training projects to maintain its sustainability, including:

- Setting up greenhouses for planting high-quality, environment-friendly products that are sold for famous hotels;
- Setting up training workshops for electricity, carpentry and plumbing crafts where children are qualified as professional practitioners;
- Performing training activities on a variety of hand-making skills such as silk carpet making, making Khan el-Khalily-like works and decoration candles;
- Employment program that purposes to link the children to the local community and allowing them to gain the skills that helps him in the future. HVS requires the trainee to be less than 14 years old.

HVS sends the children to different education stages, higher and post-secondary education, in accordance with their age and capabilities, and continually follows them up to ensure the best results. Also, HVS implements a literacy program for the dropout children in cooperation with the National Authority for Literacy and Adult Learning as well as the international Rotary. The program applies an approach for eradicating functional illiteracy known as "Concentrated Language Encounter Technique - CLE". In fact, HVS was the first to apply this technique and pass it to other agencies concerned with education in Egypt.

HVS has managed to change the community's negative attitude towards street children through a unique experience that was carried out in different areas. Street children have provided a wide range of services within their surrounding environment, this is known as the “Clean Environment” project. Also, children have been able to make a notable change in the environment by decorating it with trees and plants. Residents of such areas have greatly appreciated this experience and cooperated with street children, who were , formerly, considered as a source of worry.
The project, as well, has succeeded to convince the community that such children are victims of hard circumstances and that their tremendous capabilities can be well invested.

Lending Unit

Since the studies made by HVS have revealed that lower economic conditions is the main reason why children escape to the street, HVS has started to adopt an intervention philosophy that aims at raisin the economic standard of the families. Loan giving was introduced as a means for helping families run their own projects to raise their living standards. This in turn enhances the children's stability inside the family. Up to now, HVS has managed to grant 560 individual and group loans for the families of street children.
In integration with HVS's policy in caring for the parentless children who grew up inside one of HVS's permanent centers - some of them are about to graduate from the university, HVS has thought about helping those youth run their own projects that help them gradually depend on themselves and increase their self-confidence. Undoubtedly, financing these projects integrates with HVS policies and objectives of securing a dignified life for such youth.

Young Street Mentor

Young Street Mentor program aims mainly at training and acquainting a group of children, who regularly visit HVS' reception centers, with the advanced means of health protection as well as positive behaviors and attitudes so that they could convey it to their peers in the street. The program also focuses on making the children aware of the services available in the community and how to use them to deal with the street risks.

Al-Mokattam Community School

Al-Mokattam Community School is a protective program implemented by HVS. In 1995, HVS opened illiteracy school at Al-Mokattam temporary shelter, having noticed a large number of children who dropped out of school after the 1992 earthquake that hit Egypt and left behind many houses demolished. In response to this calamity, the Egyptian government has rehoused the affected families at Al-Mokattam area, which was, in the then, away from their original houses and work places. The families has, therefore, become imbalanced and failed to meet the basic needs of their children. Thus, the children had to spend most of their times in the street facing different kinds of risks.
In addition to the school subjects, the community school provides other services such as training the children on a variety of crafts for nominal amount of money as well as recreational activities and journeys.
By time, the school managed to open a new class in 1996 for the uneducated community women and girls, with an attached workshops for clothes making and preparing meals. The school as well gives microcredits to the families so that they could run their own projects and improve their living standards.

Networking Program

In 2001, NGO network was established out of a desire to reinforce the work scope, promote the interaction between various NGOs, introduce new services, activate the institutional work, gather social support for the street children phenomena, stress the street children's health and legal rights as well as disseminate the social awareness of them among the community members.
The network is composed of a number of NGOs that is engaged, or interested, in dealing with street children all over Egypt and under the supervision of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM).