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Table 3

Children’s exhibitions from 1998 to 2002

Year	Activity	Number of exhibitions
1998	National exhibitions of children’s paintings	55 exhibitions throughout all governorates of the Republic
	Arab exhibitions of children’s paintings	4 invitations
	Foreign competitions and exhibitions	9 invitations
	Total for 1998	68 programmes
1999	National exhibitions of children’s paintings	75 local exhibitions
	Entry in Arab exhibitions of children’s paintings	4 Arab invitations
	Foreign competitions and exhibitions	7 international competitions and exhibitions
	Total number of beneficiaries	86 exhibitions
2000	National exhibitions of children’s paintings	120 exhibitions throughout all governorates of the Republic
2001	Arab competitions and exhibitions of children’s paintings	6 entries
	International competitions and exhibitions of children’s paintings	9 foreign entries
	Total	135 activities
2002	National exhibitions of children’s paintings	90 local exhibitions
	Arab and foreign competitions and exhibitions of children’s paintings	7 entries
	Egypt through the Eyes of the World’s Children	7 entries
	Colours of the Spectrum, Sharjah
	Ataturk, Turkey
	Meeting of Arab Children, Sharjah
	The National Centre competition, Egypt
	Children in 2001, Poland
	The Shankar competition, India

90. Within the framework of the joint coordination and close ties among the competent authorities, the Ministries of Culture, Education and Information work together on the school league programmes which are run every year before the school summer holidays. These comprise various organized activities and programmes aimed at encouraging student competition in the arts, culture, sports, science and general knowledge, and at keeping up with modern-day changes.

Table 4

Cultural competitions during 1998-2002

Activity	Participating authorities	Number
Cultural competitions in music, song and traditional dance are held every year in each governorate	These competitions are organized and coordinated by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Education	144 competitions and activities in 12 governorates
Literary and intellectual competitions	These competitions are held once annually in each governorate
1999		15 governorates, with 250 male and female students benefiting in each governorate, amounting to a total of 375 000