The second statement
Federation of Egyptian women (underconstruction)
TodayOctober 15th 2011, the founders of the Federation of Egyptian womenwere gathered starting with standing a minute of mourning on the spirit of themartyrs of Maspero October 09th 2011, and all of attendees keptrepeating “It was a dream, then an idea, there for a prospect, and then becamea fact not a fiction”
Chaired themeeting Professor Awatef, the president of the association “Friends of theEgyptian People” and the secretarial was handled to Mr. Khaled Ali, thedirector of the association of Goura in north Sinai. They discussed the mainlist of the Federation and added some extra statements so it can be moresuitable with the role of the Federation and applying 84 Law 2002. The first session ended with thesigning of the list and it was approved unanimously.
In thesecond session there was a nomination of a number of associations and NGOs forthe membership of the board of directors and ended on the agreement of that theboard will be composed of 15 different associations from all the provinces ofEgypt and it was formed by acclamation.
Thenomination was opened for the presidency of the Board, Vice president and therest of the main office. The following associations were elected for thefollowing positions:
Presidencyof the federation TheAlliance for Arab Women
Vicepresident ArabWoman Forum in Gharbia
Thesecretarial The association of Houda Shaarawi
Secretariatof the Fund The association of family securityin Gizah
Thefollowing associations were added as members of the executive committee:
1.Association of Friends of People
2.Alliance for Arab Women in the New Valley
3.Association of Goura in north Sinai
4. FamilyPlanning Association in Alexandria
And therewere discussions on the plan to the Federation in the next stage and it wasagreed that the Federation continues until December 2011, moving and motivatingthe women to nominate themselves to the lists of parties and independents andto communicate with different parties to achieve this.
Furtheragreed to organize public meetings in different governorates to educate womento go out and cast their vote independently and in full awareness of the comingelections.
It turns outthat there are a large number of member societies in the Federation who areactually operating campaigns raise awareness among women about the upcomingelections in their provinces.
It wasdecided to work on directing 5 million women to go out to vote next elections.It also was decided to review programs of the parties to make sure of itsorientations towards womens issues. And the District of those parties thatignore the Egyptian women’s issues.
Finally, theMeeting agreed to use the slogan of the Egyptian Feminist Federation that wasused in year 1923 to be the logo for the new union the “General Federation ofEgyptian women”. It also agreed to give the honorary presidency to Mrs. AzizaHussein as recognition of her great role and pioneering history and in servingthe womens issues.