Maat Center for Juridical and Constitutional Studies hold his first peace day in Cairo governorate Al Dar tourist valley, this is Maat's first peace day with the presence of (44) family of prisoners and detainees , the kind hearted families that varied from kids, youth and elders Muslims and Christians.
The peace days came within the activity of the community peace project implemented by Maat center in cooperation with The United State Agency for International Development". "USAID "The project aims at integrating and rehabilitating the families of the prisoners and the detainees into the community and stressing the culture of religious tolerance, respecting the law and rejecting violence.
The day started at 9 am by receiving the families of the prisoners and the detainees and the kind hearted families in addition a social expert, psychiatrist, Legal Specialist.
They all participate the whole day in the activities along with a psychiatrist to solve the psychological and social problems and some lawyers to provide necessary legal advices in addition to representatives of a number of NGOs concerned with the collective work with the families of the prisoners and detainees.
In the peace day the activities varied where the attendance was divided into two groups; the first group elders and youth and second group is kids, every group had their own program.
The elders and youth started with discussing work paper about the role of the civil organizations to support the families of the prisoners and detainees followed by another paper about the ways to control the delinquency and the disobedience of their sons within these difficult circumstances; specially with a jailed or detained parent, in addition to a another paper about the rights of the prisoners and the detainees and their families, the religious tolerance
The kid's group listened to "Dodo's tale" a kid's book prepared by the center to tackle the different concepts such as friendship, religious tolerance, respecting the others, and then they started drawing, playing with the toys and watching cartoons. All participants emphasized that the province of Assiut, a privacy and despite the events experienced by the people of the area, however, still adhere to their unity and embrace the audience, despite differences.
Participated in this peace day a lot of families Muslims and Christians, suffering from the capture or the detention of one or more of their family members, which presented a true picture of the community peace, the harmony and the reintegration that the community peace project aim for. At the end of the day gifts were distributed to children as well as the distribution of prizes to the winners in the competitions.