Maat ends the training of 30 community leaders ... amid calls for human rights to create a dialogue with officials about the conditions of the families of prisoners and marginalized people

Yesterday evening “Sunday” Maat Center completed its first training course for community leaders, as part of its program aimed at “spreading community peace and reintegrating the families of prisoners and detainees into society,” in cooperation with USAID.

The three days of training ended with the development of an action plan for 30 community leaders in 6 governorates, namely “Cairo - Giza - Dakahlia - Alexandria - Minya - Assiut”, to communicate with marginalized groups and serve the families of prisoners and detainees, in cooperation with a number of decision-making bodies that provide reasons to facilitate the lives of individuals Those families in the absence of their breadwinner, and the attendees stressed the need for direct negotiation with the concerned officials, to organize visits and increase them to the families of prisoners and detainees to their families in prisons, provide health care for them inside and attend family events abroad, with educational entertainment programs and affirm their right to frequent and continuous contact with their families, and implement Judicial decisions to release detainees, and prove the true periods of their detention in official certificates to ensure their right to adequate compensation for them and their families.

The three training days ended with establishing a work plan for thirty social leaders to communicate with marginal classes and to serve families of prisoners and detainees in six governorates ;( Cairo, Giza, Al Dakahlia, Alexandria, Al Menia, Asyoot) in cooperation with some executive bodies that may offer causes to facilitate life of these families in the absence of their sustainer. Attendance asserted the importance of direct negotiation with responsible executives to organize and increase visits of prisoners and detainees by their families, to offer health care for prisoners inside jails and to allow them to enjoy family occasions outside jails, to offer cultural amusing programs, to assert their right in repeated and continues communication with their relatives, and to execute judicial reports to release detainees and prove the real periods of their detention in official certificates to ensure their right in proper compensation for them and their families. Social leaders asserted their commitment through their effective associations in social work to support prisoners' families and to do their best to achieve their life needs through developing projects. They also asserted their commitment to watch educations of these families' children and their attitude in the absence of their sustainer, to correct relations of these families' members in their community, and to work in order to change the consideration of society members towards them, as they are not responsible of their relatives' detention or imprisoning.

Ayman Aqeel, Director of the Center, indicated that the details of the efforts of each institution contributing to the project were announced, after working groups were formed to develop local plans to implement the desired goals, and to support them to confirm their developmental and enlightening role within their local community, and to train their leaders on methods of providing service to marginalized groups and communicating with Government institutions and executive decision-makers to serve these groups, while spreading the concept of community peace, rejecting violence and erasing its causes among members of these families, within the next two years, which are the life of the project.