The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights held a training workshop for youth cadres within the framework of the project “For Your Voice Cannot Be Batched”, which it implements in cooperation with the International Organization for Electoral Systems (IFES), in the city of Hamoul, Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, Wednesday October 14, 2015

34 young men and women from among the youth cadres participated in the city of Hamoul, Kafr El Sheikh Governorate. The workshop aimed at enabling the participants to acquire skills and information related to the electoral system on the basis of which the next Parliament elections will be held.

The workshop included several topics related to the main objective of the training, and the most important of these topics are communication and communication skills, general principles for free and fair elections, polling and voting procedures in parliamentary elections in light of the ruling legal systems, and how the voter protects his vote from invalidity. The workshop also included implementing models A simulation of the electoral process and the most important outcome of the workshop was an agreement to transfer what they learned to the voters through voluntary initiatives.

It is noteworthy that the project “Because your voice cannot be blotted out” is being implemented in the governorates of Kafr El-Sheikh and Sharkia. It is considered a third phase of an awareness project that Maat and the International Organization for Electoral Systems have implemented since 2011, as it implemented its first phase in the 2011/2012 People's Assembly elections, and its second phase in the Shura Council elections. 2012.

In its new phase, the project aims to increase the positive participation rate of Egyptian voters in the upcoming House of Representatives elections, by building the capabilities and skills of 16 youth cadres to enable them to train youth and natural leaders on voter education, and preparing 240 youth and natural leaders to implement voter education campaigns.

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