Early morning we started our day with a beautiful Alexandria weather. We have visited Women and Child Protection which hosts 150 orphans from around Alexandria and 100 women who have been abused. The offer them free housing, education, developing, working skills needed and makes sure that they have a better and brighter future. We then headed to the Medical Research Institute which has various departments that do Research and Development in the fields of Cancer, Kidney transplant as well as provides education courses and trainings to doctors. It was definitely an inspiring morning.
The Qait Bay fort and Morsy Abou Al Abbass Mosque were the next stop. Lots of group and funny picture were taken. "The Citadel of Qaitbay (or the Fort of Qaitbay) is a 15th century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast, built upon/from the ruins of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1477 AD by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay.'' Wikipedia
The first Annual Meeting for the Middle East/Africa Region was held today. This meeting is where all the Chapter representatives and all the Trustees in the region meet to discuss regional issues and vote on decisions. The regional by-laws and the Regional Executive Committee has been elected. The newly appointed committee members are:
- Hany Adly - Regional Chair
- Megan Van Eck - Regional Vice-Chair
- Irem Ebru Gursoy - Regional Secretary
The conclusion of the day as well as the conference was the session of Dr. Mohamed Kazem with his initiative: In Search of Understanding Initiative. "In Search of Understanding" is a Public Diplomacy initiative fostering and promoting the Culture of Peace, it is mainly based on underlining and stressing what is shared and common among us all as human beings hoping to contribute to the alleviation of existing mutual distorted stereotypes and images among the Peoples of the world. It also calls for tolerance, understanding, sympathy and above all empathy regarding existing or seemingly existing differences; it is hoped that with these ingredients combined we would ideally and gradually be heading towards mutual harmony and acceptance, hence paving the way for a better tomorrow for all.
After Dr. Kazem's session, we had the closing remarks of the third annual Middle East/Africa Regional Conference. Then certificates were distributed as well as an elegant farewell dinner was hosted.
Pictures are below:
Arriving at the Women and Child Protection Center
The kids welcoming everyone to the center
Welcome introduction at the center
Arriving at the Medical Research Institute
Touring the institute
Group picture infront of the Medical Research Institute
Hany Adly leading the first Annual Meeting
Votes during the Annual Meeting
The newly elected Regional Executive Committee
Dr. Mohamed Kazem's session; In Search of Understanding
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