Council trains "Tahwisha" facilitators to spread health and social awareness

The National Council for Women has trained "Tahwisha" savings group facilitators to deliver health and social awareness sessions in three governorates.

• The council organized the training in Giza, Fayoum, and Asyut to qualify facilitators to run "al-Dawar" awareness sessions within "Tahwisha" groups.
• The program covered safe motherhood, reproductive health, family planning, and risks of early marriage, female genital mutilation, violence against women, and drug addiction.
• Nashwa Mustafa, acting coordinator of the National Project for Family Development, said the program aims to convey awareness messages to women in their villages.
• Aya al-Daba'a addressed the national strategy to combat drugs and the health, psychological, and social effects of substance abuse.