Dr Maya Morsi, head of the National Council for Women, said she was impressed by the strong participation of young women at the World Youth Forum, which kicked off in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.
“I am very happy that we are back together at the forum especially in this critical time,” Morsi told The Egyptian Gazette in an interview.
The NCW head inspected a venue, which is part of the Adha we Adud initiative, to teach refugee women handicrafts.
Dr Morsi said the council’s main objective is to empower more young women through training.
“We want every strong woman to make dozens of others powerful and strong through training,” she said.
At the venue, young women draw designs on clothes and wood and sell them for participants of the forum.
“Any participant can come to our venue here and order any tailored products and we create them,” one young woman said at the venue.
Following the training, women also learn how to market the products that will be produced with the aim of economic empowerment of the targeted women.
Nagwa Ibrahim, head of the women’s training department at the NCW, said that one of the main targets of training programmes at the council is to empower women economically by teaching them crafts which can create jobs for them.
“This initiative is one of many drives carried out by the National Council for Women with the same objective,” she told this newspaper.
