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DR. BADRAWI ATTENDS SIGNING A PROTOCOL FOR TRAINING TEACHERS BETWEEN “EDUCATION FIRST’ AND “THE PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS”

In the presence of Dr. Hossam Badrawi, Head of the Advisory Board of ‘Education First’ foundation, Dr. Salma Al Bakri, Chairman of the foundation Board of Trustees, and Dr. Salah Ghoneim, Director of the Professional Academy for Teachers, signed a cooperation protocol that allows for sustainability of a training program for the leaders and teachers of 721 public language schools all over Egypt. The protocol was also signed by Dr. Mahmoud Hamza, the project CEO; he represents the spirit and heart of the project. This professional work is carried out by the foundation and its costs are borne by it within a public non-profit work.

It is worth mentioning that “Education First” is a civil society foundation that supports government education in Egypt. It trained about 13,600 teachers of science, mathematics and English at official language “experimental” schools, in cooperation with Vodafone Egypt Foundation for Community Development, Al-Alfi Foundation, International Associated Cargo Carrier ” IACC”, B-Tech for Trade and Distribution, Banque Misr, and Microsoft, as well as the academic partner of the Faculty of Education, Florida Atlantic University.

“Education First” is one of several educational institutions led by Dr. Badrawi, such as Takatof Association which builds a new school and delivers it to the state every 7 months, The Dreamers of Tomorrow Association which works with youth and on developing their abilities, Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development which finances and supervises the non-profit activities of the family, the National Competitiveness Council that was founded by Dr. Hossam in 2004, and the Institution of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, founded by Dr. Badrawi in 2003.

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