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Many Egyptian graduates are not able to work, to find that their training matches. Can teach skills programs, employability and entrepreneurship to help, but job creation is required

In pictures: teaching employability and entrepreneurship

About 400km south of Cairo, saw Sahar Mohamed Abou El-Hamd, 24, hovers over a small electrical circuit in her home in Kom el Dabaa, a village in Qena, Upper Egypt. "Not all girls to be able to use such devices," she screams. "No other girls can do the kind of work \, hard work, I can do." In the last few months, Abou El-Hamd assembly was motor filter for motor vehicles, especially for the great Russian tractors that work the fields in the vicinity of their village, and the trucks that Qena 'travel s factories for sugar to collect for the sale. As long as there 'sa demand for sugar, she says, there is a demand for their goods.

Abou El-Hamd is very proud of their business - not least because of engine filters, circular saws and Russian tractors are not the usual concerns of women in Kom El Dabaa - and talks about opening a small factory in the next few years. But it 's still early days, she says. And working from home saves money and allows her to offer other manufacturers and sold under a profit of more than 50% per filter.

Not just for jobs but for better jobs, higher wages, social security and a fairer distribution of national income - The coming months will no doubt due to wider debates about how to stimulate job creation and economic requirements of the January-Egyptian revolution will be marked . UNICEF has already begun talks with the interim government on the rollout of qualified program at the national level.

Meanwhile, the immediate outlook remains for the post-revolutionary economy gloomy, with investments continuing concern over the loss of revenue from tourism and foreign. "I think it is very likely that many more people fall below the poverty line," said Philippe Duamelle, head of Unicef ??Egypt. "And therefore, the degradation of the coping mechanisms and the situation of the population to be expected, unfortunately, until the economy can create jobs and people can find jobs. That is, \ it 's give even more relevant now to the youth more opportunities to successfully be \. "