Sixteen community centers which are equipped to serve people with disabilities and empower women were inaugurated on September in South Sinai by Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, state-run newspaper of Al-Ahram reported.
The inaugurated centers are considered part of the ministry’s integrated inclusive community centers project. The inauguration of these centers witnessed the presence of MCIT’s minister Yasser El Kady and other high-ranking officials in the governorate.
The community centers will be boosted by support from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology [MCIT] and will offer training programs, such as computer training or management training, as well as literacy courses.
According to the MCIT’s plan for maintaining its commitment to social responsibility, the Integrated Inclusive Community Centers project aims to develop community centers technologically in order to better serve poor and rural areas while also targeting marginalized citizens.
MCIT’s projects are often the byproduct of collaborations between the private sector, civil society organizations and government institutions in order to “unify the vision and objectives of the ICT [Information Communication Technology] projects for social responsibility,” according to the ministry’s statement on social responsibility.
In June, the MCIT won for the second consecutive year the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) prize for Egypt’s National Program for ICT Accessibility in Education for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs). The prize is recognized by the International Telecommunication Union for supporting projects that use ICT to drive social change and development within communities.
The ICT Accessibility in Education for Persons with Disabilities program aims to assist students with disabilities in obtaining a proper education by providing them with technological support, training teachers on how to use assistive technology to help students with disabilities in addition to providing special education schools with access to technologies that will help them.
