Towards a safer world
Internet nowadays is affecting everyone’s life, Experts and children are using it in every aspect of life. For me and most of the youth my age, Internet is essential in our study, work and our personal life, and that’s why I joined the Youth Internet Safety Focus group here in Egypt which is part of the Cyber peace initiative which was signed by H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak in the International Youth Forum 2007 in sharm el sheikh http://www.powerofyouthforpeace.org within the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement.
We’re trying to spread awareness in schools between children and young people aged 8 – 16 of the Internet dangers like cyber bullying, sexual harassments and a lot more. Actually before the first training on the beginning of this month, I didn’t think it was really a big deal, but through the training we were able to sum up all the risks together and it was really clear that We are in great danger while our stay on this worldwide window.
Here in Egypt, we started taking some steps in facing those risks as we started organizing our efforts and thoughts and directing them to spreading awareness among children and young people who are the main category in risk. We are starting our campaign with a questionnaire designed by the Focus group and directed to our main target at schools to get some responses on questions
Finally, I’d like to read about the other contributions of countries all over the world and hear what you think about our Movement and our Youth focus group…
Thank you
Nada Rady
Youth Focus Group member
