President of Beni Suef University receives UNICEF coordinator and Egypt Youth Initiative team
Prof. Dr. Mansour Hassan, President of Beni Suef University, received the UNICEF Coordinator and the ''Egypt Youth'' Initiative team. This is part of the participation of the University students in the implementation of "Youth of Egypt" initiative launched by the National Population Council with the technical support of UNICEF in coordination with Beni Suef University, Ministries of Health and Population, Solidarity, Youth, Culture, Education and Endowments.
The university president explained that the initiative started at the university three years ago. The youth of the initiative were trained on ways to spread awareness of important population issues such as nutrition at different ages, family health, small family concept, positive education methods for early childhood development, combating harmful community practices such as children marriage, prevention and treatment of infectious and non-communicable diseases, the most important of which is C virus.
Pointing out that the idea of ??the initiative is based on the holding awareness sessions within the university using the system of peer education, where each of the university leaders from among the 100 university leaders have been trained to hold educational meetings of five of his peers to form a group of 6 students each group educates other students, In addition to the implementation of 160 educational seminars in a number of centers and villages of the province by the initiative team.