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Maat concludes the first stage of The political awareness campaign for the youth of Egypt

The National Council for Youth in collaboration with Maat Foundation for peace, development, and human rights concludes the first stage of “the electoral awareness campaign for the Youth of Egypt” and it is the first campaign that combines governmental body responsible for an important sector in the Egyptian community "Youth sector” with the human right foundation of a great experience in the election field, and the target of this period was to train more than 375 youth in the ages of 18 to 30 from different Egyptian universities and institutes in 27 Egyptian governorate , During the period from 9 to 13 September 2011, in the international youth city – Arish – North Sinai Governorate. The campaign target was the preparation of ‎Key – staff youth, who will be active IN THE electoral process which will be carried out under the new electoral system and to enhance their skills and abilities to conduct the election under the mixed system which combines with individual election and closed party list, in addition to make the youth aware of international standards of the integrity of the electoral process and how to monitor electoral process. The training deals with a number of the important issues regarding the electoral field. These issues are: electoral awareness, political participation, conduct the election under the mixed system and monitoring the elections. During the training days, the training team seeks to transfer his practical experience to the trainees; including registration stage, submission of nomination papers, propaganda stage, voting and sorting stage and the result announcement stage. In the first training day the youth created a Facebook Group to spread the electoral awareness, and this campaign Group has witnessed a massive turnout from the Facebook Users who ask for joining the campaign and to know more about the elections and about the voting mechanism in the new system. In the second training day the trainers and observers started preparing the youth city and turning it to constituency and the nominees for the sketch were asked to lunch their own electoral propaganda to convince more than 375 youth of their electoral program. In the third training day, the day of voting and polling, the library was prepared to be a sub election committee that has two election boxes. And on the third training day the moment of the election came at 5 pm and continued until 9 pm where more than 250 young trainees have voiced, and some have artificially committed a mistakes and violations in the electoral process artificially by applying the approach of learning from errors. At the end of the training the participants agreed with the trainers to publish the most important information of the new electoral system within their groups and peers to teach them the basic information they acquired through the training and also agreed on supporting the Facebook group and continuing the contacts between the trainees and youth and inviting them to join the campaign.

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