Maat Foundation finished the Rehabilitation Campaign of33Young Volunteers To mobilize Community Resources

Maat Foundation finished the Rehabilitation Campaign of33Young Volunteers To mobilize Community Resources

Over
three days during the period from Tuesday, August 28 to Thursday,
August 30, 2012, Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights
held training workshop for young volunteers in a campaign to mobilize
community resources to help the families of prisoners and detainees,
under the title “Enable volunteers to manage field campaigns and
motivate the community to help families Prisoners”.

The workshop comes within the context of the implementation of
project activities of integrated protection for the families of
prisoners and detainees “Integrate and Rehabilitate” which is
implemented by Maat and funded by the Swiss Foundation “Drosos”. This
project seeks to improve economic and social conditions for the families
of prisoners and detainees through a set of interrelated activities and
integrated targeting family members themselves, as well as other
parties of community from the areas that project is carrying out.

In the workshop, (33) of young volunteers have participated from areas
that implemented the project in the districts of: El-Basateen – Dar El-
Salaam – Helwan – Khalifa – Imbaba – Boulaq Dakrour, in addition to
Atfih Center. The percentage of volunteers involved was above the target
number by 10% of the workshop.

The training workshop addressed several issues; the most important
was the concept of volunteerism, how to manage volunteer efforts, how to
estimate community resources, how to design and plan a volunteer
campaign, importance and mechanisms of teamwork. Training program has
adopted innovative technologies such as presentations and short films
and role-playing and group games that reinforce the value of work
teamwork between volunteers.

The training included each group of volunteers from one area to make
job action plan progress to begin field campaign in the region to
stimulate the community to help the families of prisoners and developing
social responsibility towards the prisoner’s family, especially in the
field of providing educational assistance to the children of these
families. These job action plans will be revised through sessions with
volunteers in the days immediately following the workshop to reach the
final formula.

It is assumed that the trained volunteers during the next phase by
the assistance of Maat Foundation will implement social giving campaign
through their paying 1800 field visits at least for both the private
sector and civil society organizations, families and educational
institutions to be aware on how to donate and its methods and how to
know the path of their donated resources, then receive in-kind donations
of educational materials and preparing them for distribution to needy
families of prisoners and detainees, to provide a database to the
children of families in need of help, whereabouts and how to contact
them so that the able go forward directly to these families and to
provide them with assistance.