By Laila Risgallah PhD | Project Leader
"Your training is unique. Unlike other classes we take, I felt that I have gained something that will benefit me and my future. I did not realize I had the right to say NO to abuse. I discovered that I am special and that I can and must have boundaries. Thank you".
Those were the words of Fatma from Hoda Shaarawy School in Sahel, Shobra, Egypt.
She is one of thirty girls we trained. We will be going back to the same school next week.
Now with schools almost over for the summer holidays, we are in the process of preparing and negotiating with heads of districts in the ministry of education to enter six schools next September.
In the mean time, we are training youth in summer camps, churches and summer clubs to raise up a generation that says NO to sexual abuse, and hates sexual abuse.
Help make the dream come true.
Together we can abolish sexual abuse,
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