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Alexandria University's Council for Community Service and Environmental Development, headed by Dr. Saeed Allam, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, decided to form a committee of a number of Vice-Deans of faculties to prepare the file of Alexandria University in order to get ready for its participation in the green ranking competition for universities. This came during the Council for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs meeting Thursday morning the grand conference hall at the University headquarters.
The Council was informed of the most important recommendations issued by the World Population Day Health and Development Conference and the importance of the participation of universities to contribute to this regard. The most prominent recommendations were reviewed, such as increasing educational opportunities for the less educated groups to reduce negative phenomena such as child labour, early marriage among girls, and depriving boys of education, which constitute the fundamental causes of the population problems, and activating Egyptian family development programs.
The Vice President of the University thanked all the university’s faculties and institutes for successfully preparing and organizing the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the glorious October War by organizing a large number of seminars and events as well as hosting heroes of the Egyptian Armed Forces and influential figures to encourage the spirit of loyalty and belonging among the university’s students.
The Council reviewed the report submitted by Dr. Wafaa El-Sehli, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, on organizing a number of integrated medical service convoys to “Halab Village, Alexandria-Cairo Desert Road, Abis 7 Health Unit, Abis 8 Health Unit” to serve the people of the villages in the areas that are in utmost need for various medical specialties. The convoys services included dispensing medications and transferring some cases to the main university hospital.
Dr. Saeed Allam praised the faculties of the educational sector at the university, for their organization of the the exhibition “The Glorious October Victory” to employ environmental materials from a sustainability perspective, and the childhood education department students in the faculties of the educational sector at the university who used environmental materials to create designs and models that express the epic of the glorious October victory, with the participation of the university youth organization, as well as kindergarten children and their supervisors perform some military parades.
The Council discussed the Faculty of Education’s report on eradicating illiteracy, the number of classes that were opened, the most important obstacles facing the university and students, and ways to overcome them, with full coordination between the five faculties of the educational sector.
The Council reviewed several activities, workshops, seminars, initiatives and courses in the university’s faculties that took place during the months of October and November.
