• Ismail Abdel-Wahhab, 39, a former football coach, provides meals for families every Friday, in Helwan, a suburb of Cairo. All photos: Reuters
    Ismail Abdel-Wahhab, 39, a former football coach, provides meals for families every Friday, in Helwan, a suburb of Cairo. All photos: Reuters
  • Mr Abdel-Wahhab and his friends started the initiative with help from charities
    Mr Abdel-Wahhab and his friends started the initiative with help from charities
  • A volunteer prepares meals
    A volunteer prepares meals
  • It is intended to help poor families
    It is intended to help poor families
  • He came up with the idea following the devaluation of the Egyptian pound
    He came up with the idea following the devaluation of the Egyptian pound
  • Volunteers distribute the meals
    Volunteers distribute the meals
  • A chain of volunteers helps load a car with meals ready for delivery
    A chain of volunteers helps load a car with meals ready for delivery
  • A volunteer distributes meals and food supplies to families, in Helwan, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, February 10, 2023. Ismail Ahmed Abdel-Wahhab, a former football coach, and his friends started the charitable work with the support and help from charitable societies and many volunteers, to help poor families, after a devaluation of the Egyptian pound which affected the economic conditions in the country. REUTERS / Hanaa Habib
    A volunteer distributes meals and food supplies to families, in Helwan, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, February 10, 2023. Ismail Ahmed Abdel-Wahhab, a former football coach, and his friends started the charitable work with the support and help from charitable societies and many volunteers, to help poor families, after a devaluation of the Egyptian pound which affected the economic conditions in the country. REUTERS / Hanaa Habib

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Former football coach starts food charity for poor families in Egypt - in pictures

Initiative set up by Ismail Abdel-Wahhab and his friends after the devaluation of the local currency

The National

February 12, 2023

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Updated: February 12, 2023, 4:49 PM