Helping the needy Countrywide, the Muslim Brotherhood runs 22 hospitals and has schools in every governorate in the country. The organisation also runs numerous care centres for poor widows and orphans as well as training programmes for the unemployed. “We work in both rural and urban areas,” Abul Futouh pointed out. “The goal is to reach out to the most marginalised people in society.” While public services in Egypt are, for the most part, free of charge, quality tends to be low. For example, state-run schools are often so poor that families are forced to hire private tutors to ensure that their children pass public exams. Services offered by the brotherhood, meanwhile, are much cheaper than private alternatives. “A woman would usually pay at least US $875 to give birth in a private clinic, compared to just US $175 in one of our hospitals,” said another prominent brotherhood member Gamal Abdel-Salam. Members emphasise that brotherhood-run services are open to all Egyptians, regardless of their political – or even religious – affiliations. “Coptic Christian women come to give birth here all the time,” said Neama, a nurse who works at the group’s Omraniyya Hospital in a run-down area on the outskirts of the capital. “They’re treated in exactly the same way as Muslims. We make no distinction.” irinnews.org/report/26150/
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