Within the framework of the project “Haquk Hayat”, with the participation of a number of partner civil society organizations, and in the presence of Dr. Ahmed Kamal Nassary, Vice President of South Valley University for Community Service and Environmental Development; on behalf of Prof. Dr. Youssef Gharbawy, the university president, and many executive and religious leaders, leaders of civil society and NGOs in Qena. Plan International in Qena has launched a project against harmful practices that have a negative effect on women’s human rights involving female genital mutilation and child marriage in Upper Egypt.
Dr. Ahmed Kamal Nassary spoke about the university’s willingness to cooperate with Plan International in implementing any initiative that serves the community and contributes to spreading awareness among young people, indicating that the university, headed by Dr. Youssef Gharbawy, had a head start in cooperating with Plan International by implementing many symposiums in the university’s faculties with the participation of clerics and professors of medicine. Praising the authority’s efforts and the initiatives it offers in the villages of Qena and Sohag governorates that contribute to spreading awareness and addressing wrong habits and practices in society.
Professor Mamdouh Asham, director of Plan International in Sohag and Qena, said that the project aims to to form a public opinion against female genital mutilation and child marriage and the consequent deprivation of children and girls of their social and civil rights, and the health risks facing females as a result of harmful practices, as well as to build a public opinion in favour of condemning violence in all forms against girls in Upper Egypt.
