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Thirty Social Leaders in Six Governorates Call upon the Government to make an Open Conversation with Marginal Classes …Maat setting up Service Manual for prisoners' families.

 

09\02\2008.

 

Maat center started yesterday "Friday" activities of training social leaders, in the frame of its project to" rejoin and rehabilitate prisoners' families and spread social peace". This project will last for two years and financed by the US Agency for International Development with "1.7 million pounds".

 

The project aims at rising and applies new views in dealing with prisoners' and detainees' families, and in their cases through focusing on spreading the concept of social peace, reject violence and delete its causes among members of these families. In addition, the project aims at training thirty social leaders in six governorates (Cairo, Alexandria, Al Dakahlia, Giza, Aseoot, Al Menia) to ways to serve these marginal families and classes in local societies, and training sixty journalists of the same governorates to know ways of neutral and active informational tackling of these classes' issues. It aims also at training sixty lawyers of the same governorates to provide legal support for detention cases and to support families that need legal care, along with spreading spirit of voluntary work among them.

 

Mr. Aymaan Oqeel, lawyer and the center's chairperson, said that the project represents a new step in (Maat)'s march who still interested in cases of detainees and prisoners and cases of violating freedoms since its activity started. Mr. Oqeel also pointed at the idea of "rejoining" prisoners, detainees and their families, asserting that it is the whole society's responsibility after their release and their lose of all ways, tools, and causes of good life. Mr. Oqeel announced that the center setting up services manual for families of prisoners, detainees, and marginal classes, included bodies that offering loans and bonuses so these families can benefit from it to correct its course of life. Mr. Oqeel also called upon chairpersons of associations, and local leaders who attended the three days program of leaders training to abide by offering full support to those marginal families in their governorates without waiting for central decrees, and without relaying on offering these services from governmental bodies just in the capital. In addition, Mr. Oqeel called upon governmental authorities and state's bodies to react with organizations of civil society and to support its role in serving these classes through making open conversation with them and solve their problems.

 

While thirty social leaders, attendance, supported Mr. Oqeel's  idea to open a social conversation with the government and its bodies around future and rights of marginal families, but attendance warned of the state's bodies' agitation dealing with these classes. They called for releasing work of civil society to solve their problems, and for adopting positive ideas by citizens to penetrate fear barriers about troubles demolishing by the time.

 

The leaders, attendance, asserted that sound social atmosphere is the one that give members the chance to correct their reality them selves, among their pointing at case of inferiority dominated families of detainees and prisoners because of the social siege imposed on its members. This means losing human energies ready to turn from being prepared to benefit the society to malice energy towards socially qualified classes, which may turned by the time to bombs ready to blast violence in society.