Eve of the Factory

We are starting a new era in the Eve of the Factory project involving the men in the training.

At the Cook Door fast-food factory, we trained 30 factory men and 30 factory women with the anti-sexual abuse training.

It was amazing to see how men did not know anything about boundaries, yet when we played with them the boundaries games during the workshop, they had stronger boundaries than the women, shouting STOP at a further distance than women.

The women really appreciated the fact that men were involved.

"I will feel safer now, knowing that men went through the same training like us". said one factory girl worker.

Since this training is not common in Egypt, we are extending this training and tweaking it to become a training for the workplace in general and not only for factory workers.

We have approached two banks and are waiting for their reply to perform the training in their bank for employees.

Dr. Laila Risgallah Wahba, Founder, and President of Not Guilty, is in the process of rewriting the curriculum to fit a different audience but with the same topics.

Dr. Laila Risgallah Wahba is also launching her new book, What Happens After #MeToo on August 1 to reach a broader platform with anti-sexual abuse awareness.

Our vision is to reach at least 2 more factories and three banks by the end of the year.

The challenges we face is the stigma that if they agree to do the training it means that they have cases. Part of our message is forewarned is forearmed. The organizations do not need to have cases, but it is much better to have the training in place to set the culture of the workplace as a safe environment.

Links:

• http://www.lailarisgallah.com