Not all street children are ignorant and hopeless, as many people think.
Some of them might even be better than many of us, such as my little brother Mazen.

Mazen is one of the street children who are being rehabilitated by the Belady Foundation. When he saw my book in the Belady Foundation, he started reading it and was very impressed with the book. Mohamed Hassanein, one of the Foundation’s officials, said to him, “I can arrange a meeting between you and the author of this book.” Mazen said to him, “Book authors don’t have time to spare and it’s impossible for them to agree to meet me.”
Mohamed Hassanein sent me a message saying that a child wanted to meet you because he liked your book and wanted to ask you about some parts of it. I was surprised and wanted to meet this child and expected him to be very intelligent despite his circumstances, so I accepted the invitation.
Before I arrived, Mohamed Hassanein told Mazen in the morning that the author of the book was coming today to meet him. The child was surprised and said to Mohamed, “I want 10 pounds from you so I can cut my hair so I can meet him in the best possible condition.”
I arrived at the Belady Foundation and as I expected, Mazen was very intelligent and polite. He asked me wonderful questions that demonstrated his high culture, which is rarely found in children of his age.
I loved Mazen very much and left him my phone number so he could call me whenever he wanted and I considered him like my little brother

In short, street children are a very clean material that can be shaped if properly handled and contained.

Major Tamer Badr