By Laila Risgallah | Project leader
Fayza was being stalked. She thought that the boy loved her. She did not dare tell her mother of the phone calls she was getting. She was too scared to tell anyone, and too scared to say NO: until she attended Not Guilty's training.
This is just one story of the 500 kids and youth that Not Guilty trained as part of three back to back conferences that are done yearly by a non profit called Friends of Children.
Not Guilty has partnered with them for the past four years. This non profit serves the poorest of the poor from age 6-18.
Every year they take them to a camp to teach them, make them have fun which they would not otherwise afford and buy them their back to school stuff.
Thank you for everyone who donated to make this possible.
The first day, we taught about the imortance of boundaries adn how to set them.
Second day we talked about sexual abuse and bullying. and on the last day we talked about anger and how to deal with it; as well as sex education.
We had three back to back camps: one for 6-9 year olds, the next two for 10-18 year olds boys and girls.
Because of the Egyptian culture, we had to split the boys and the girls so that no one would feel embarassed.
Fayza decided to change her cell phone number and to tell her teacher about the stalking. She learned that boundaries and respect are very important. She r4ealized that the boy was abusing her and that he did not really love her.
But Fayza is not the only one who took this decision.
Many young men were sorry they harassed girls; they learned how painful it is and many took decisions that they will be the ones to respect and protect the girls in their neighborood.
Kids learned that their private parts ar their own and that NO is actually a good word.
Thank you for making this event possible.
Your contribution has certainly made at least 500 Egyptian kids and youth happy.
Dr. Laila Risgallah PhD
Founder and President
Not Guilty
Ashoka Fellow
Trauma therapist
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By Laila Risgallah PhD | Project Leader
By Laila Risgallah PhD | Project Leader
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