CAIRO: Prince Abdul Aziz bin Talal, chairman of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development (ACCD), oversaw the signing of two agreements funded by the Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) in Cairo on Sunday, on the sidelines of the 15th meeting of the council’s board of trustees. The first agreement supports the council’s new upbringing model, which focuses on areas including early childhood, the rehabilitation of street children and their integration into society, children with special needs, and promotion of children’s rights in Arab countries.The second agreement backs the council’s strategic approach toward “empowering Arab children in the age of the forth industrial revolution,” which will be implemented in six Arab countries.Earlier, Prince Abdul Aziz praised the role of the council in monitoring and dealing with child labor in Arab countries, while warning plenty more still needed to be done. He said that the ACCD had implemented developmental projects to preserve the rights and dignity of Arab children, and stop their economic exploitation, since the 1990s.The Cairo-based organization was founded in 1987. Its policy stems from basic principles and concepts that guarantee development, protection, participation and social integration to ensure the welfare of Arab children and provide a safe humanitarian educational environment through which future generations would absorb values of love, cooperation, work and living with, and accepting others. SPA Cairo