Ministry of Youth and Sports organizes the African Children's Arts Festival with the participation of the African continent children from 1st to 6th of March in Aswan.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports seeks to know more about the different cultures of African countries, provide opportunities of discovering new talents also acquire various experiences, besides the cooperation to activate a heritage and folkloric activities among the continent children.

In the context of developing the Egyptian-African relations, the Ministry aims to support the human development of the African children and mix their different cultures.

The event includes a number of sports activities and various workshops by specialists in different fields, in addition to visiting the most important touristic places and monuments in Aswan.

Ministry of Youth and Sports prepared more than 25 diverse international projects to provide added value to the continent, concurrently with Egypt's presidency of the African Union and the announcement of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi that Aswan is the capital of the African youth.