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Dr. Badrawi meets students and teachers of El Mir de Dieu School

On the morning of a beautiful day, Monday, September 19, at the invitation of the Mer De Dieu Alumni Association, Dr. Hossam Badrawi met with the teachers and administration of the Mer De Dieu School in Garden City before the start of the academic year to talk with them about coordinating the school’s vision with Egypt’s vision 2030 in education. The number of attendees reached about 50 male and female teachers attended the symposium: Mr. Iman Gerges, Principal of the Mer De Dieu School, Wa / Nevin Othman, Advisor to the Minister of Solidarity, Mrs. Miray Nassim, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Mer De Dieu Graduates Association, Mrs. Dalia Sadek, from the Board of Directors of the Association, and Sir / Andrea, Assistant Principal and Responsible for the Secondary Section Sir / Rita, responsible for the preparatory section. The Mir de Dieu School aims to provide its students with an intellectual and moral formation that helps them develop all the talents they possess to ensure their happiness and the happiness of their families, and to serve the community efficiently and with a sense of duty.
It was a dialogue d. Hossam with the school teachers about the importance of the teacher’s role in the lives of our children and the beauty of their influence on building a healthy personality capable of building the future of Egypt.
El Mir de Dieu School is an institution that Egypt is proud of, in its legacy and role over more than a hundred years.
The Mir de Dieu School is a “language” school that follows the curricula of the Ministry of Education and prepares its students for the general secondary certificate, which allows them to join the faculties of various universities, as well as the French departments of higher education in Egypt.
The history of El Merde Dio dates back to 1648 A.D. It was started by the priest Olivier, pastor of the Church of Saint-Sulpice, to raise and educate poor orphans in his church.
The original headquarters of the school was a large villa located at the confluence of 26th of July Street and Talaat Harb Al-Haleen Street. The number of students at its inauguration was 16 students.
In September 1899, an annex to the school was established in Cairo to admit girls of the working classes.
In 1921, the school was moved to its current location in Garden City, and the number of students currently exceeds 1,200 students.
The school includes 1,200 students. For your information, although it is a Catholic school, 80% of the students are Muslims.
I saw in the school the height of sophistication in treatment, and from the dialogue with the teachers, a high level of knowledge, and in their words and dialogue there was pride in their school and its history. I saw graduates of the school from the faculties of Arts and Engineering return to it as teachers.
It is a respectable system of consistent work team, although their average salaries do not exceed two thousand and five hundred pounds per month!!!!!! yes …. Yet they work with dedication, professionalism, and love that I see and touch clearly.
Bravo El Mer de Dieu, which addresses the middle class with annual fees for students in the range of ten thousand pounds, and provides a service for which other schools receive hundreds of thousands of pounds.
How can Mire de Dieu continue at this high level, with her group of prestigious French schools, without social support and state support…
Egypt is beautiful with its people, and we have to highlight the successful models that continued to give a high level despite all the changes around it.
Proud and happy with Palmer de Dieu and other similar ancient schools that we must preserve without interfering in their affairs and management so that they are not contaminated by data that unfortunately came to education.
Website
www.merededieu.edu.eg

About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people