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Corporate Responsibility |
Launching Discovery Box at the National
Council for Chilldhood & Motherhood
Egypt’s first lady, Suzan Mubarak, launched the Girls’ Education
Initiative in 2003. It is a developmental project to decrease
the gender gap in enrollment rates between girls and boys. The
goal of the project is also to improve the quality of education
and to attain education for all by 2015. There are almost 1000
girl-friendly schools in 7 governates all over Egypt like in
Giza, Sohag, Assiut, Menia, Bani Suef, Fayoum and Beheira. The
schools are built in government-owned land or donated buildings
in remote villages deprived of educational services. The schools
are composed of one classroom that can hold from 25-36 students
aged 6 to 13. Facilitators (teachers) live in same areas and
have good contact to the pupils and their parents. The schools
are jointly supervised by the National Council for Childhood and
Motherhood, the Ministry of Education and implementing NGOs.
On June 11th, 2008 together with a group of eight volunteer
students from the Cairo University, Computer Science department,
we visited two schools in Badrashin called Abou El Seer and El
Reegha schools. Each school consisted of 35 girls and 3
facilitators. The girls were fascinated with the idea of doing
some hands-on experiments and seeing the result of each
experiment on the spot. All girls had the chance to investigate
the boxes and ask any questions. On June 16th, 2008 Jaclyn
Edward, A&D department, and Ahmed El Saeed, PTD department
joined the Corporate Communications team and the volunteers from
the Cairo University and visited 4 schools in Giza. These were
the Sakara, El Maamal, El Segla and Dahshour schools. The total
number of girls, who participated on that day, was 100. The
girls enjoyed the Discovery Box, and asked us to come again soon
with new experiments.
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