BSSS-SCORA End term report 2012-2013 by Benha Students' Scientific Society (BSSS)

BSSS-SCORA end term report 2012/2013

 National Projects: 1- FGM Project 2- World AIDS Campaign. 3- International Women's Day Celebration.

 Local Projects: 1- Breast Cancer. 2- "Estargel" Anti sexual harassment Project.

 National Events & Representations : 1- IFMSA-Egypt Breast cancer Raw for Cure event in " Elmokawleen Al arab Club" , October 2012. 2- IFMSA-Egypt 1st GA Zagazig , October 2012. 3- IFMSA-Egypt-SCORA 1st National Online Skype meeting November 2012. 4- IFMSA-Egypt 4th Winter camp Assiut, February 2013. 5- IFMSA-Egypt Project Presentations, presentation on Breast cancer Project during the winter camp. 6- IFMSA-Egypt IWD Conference " Take the floor " , March 2013. 7- IFMSA-Egypt General Assembly Alexandria , April 2013.

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National Teams & Tasks: 1- FGM Brochures Data collecting & Editing team "October – November 2012". 2- WAC newsletter. 3- IWD O.C representation by 5 members from BSSS.

 Local meetings & Events: 1- Holding 13 Local SCORA meetings. 2- Recruiting 15 new SCORA members. 3- SCORA presentation skills day September 7, 2013. 4- Participating in the National women's Council research competition & our research on Sexual harassment chosen as a winner research with an award from the council. 5- International FGM awareness day online campaign February 2013.

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Raw for Cure event 

We have participated in the national breast cancer event of " Raw for cure" in Al Mokawleen Al Arab club in October 2012 to support breast cancer victims & to raise awareness about breast cancer detection & give hoe of cure.

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BSSS had 3 attendees in that event.

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Obstacles: -

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National call for delegations opened only 3 days before the event & deadline was set after 24 hours only of the call.

Suggestions & comments: -

There have to be good preparation for such an event to recruit more attendees for it from LCs.

This event has to be linked with local Breast cancer campaigns in each LC.

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Female Genital Mutilation " FGM" Project Coordinator: Karim Hebishi 

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Aim: -

To develop accessible resources for the FGM awareness, through which medical students are sensitized and empowered to take on a significant role in preventing Female Genital Mutilation and increase the public awareness among youth about the risks and dangers of this act.

Through a joined effort, we wish to enable a friendly environment to deal with FGM and associated problems and complications far from myths and related stigma.

To Refresh BSSS FGM core team & prepare them for the actual FGM outreach campaigns.

Participation on National level: -

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Local level: -

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Sharing in the national team responsible for data collection & editing for the brochures of FGM. "BSSS has prepared the religious aspect Data & has edited the medical data".

We started preparing ourselves for the supposed FGM campaign by making a local workshop on 2 days to prepare our team for the campaign.

Time: Friday & Saturday 7th & 8th of December 2012.

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Methodology: -

Workshop for BSSS members & Medical students for 2 days on FGM including Medical, Social, religious & psychological Aspects of FGM. Workshop was given by Mr. Hatem Shohdy & Ms. Alyaa Mahfouz who has attended the national core training last year.

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Target Group: BSSS members & other medical students.

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Outcome: -

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Challenges & Obstacles -

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Preparing 20 Medical students & BSSS members to advocate for our fight against FGM & to act like a moving media advocating the problem.

Cancellation of the project nationally Due to lack of materials. Lack of fund & material to go on with the outreach campaigns.

Comments & Suggestions: -

The project must have a very good stable fund source. We have to go out in the health centers & villages to reach people there.

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World AIDS Campaign Project Coordinator: Raghda Hathout. 

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Time: -

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To raise awareness about HIV & methods of transmission & how to protect against it. To fight Stigma & discrimination & advocate for HIV+ rights in living & treatment. To reach zero Stigma, Discrimination & infection. 20th December 2012: HIV workshop 25th & 26th December 2012: Faculty campaign. April 2013: Another campaign during BSSS carnival.

Methodology: 1- Phase 1: HIV workshop -

We held a local workshop for BSSS members & medical students to prepare them for the actual campaign Workshop given by Mr. Ahmed Hanger & Mr. Ahmed Tawheed who attended the national workshop Last year.

2- Phase 2 : World AIDS Day Campaign. -

We held a big campaign in the Faculty for 2 days to make awareness about our Message. More than 20 BSSS members participated in that campaign. A Stationary Information desk was prepared for 2 days with attractive decorations to attract people to come to it. 3 Ambulatory well prepared outreach information teams has surfed the Faculty & hospital with brochures & booklets to reach people who didn't come to the information desk & conduct our Message to them. Making announcements for 5 min. in each lecture & section in those 2 days about our Project & our message. Preparing Games for the students in the faculty with questions about HIV.

3- Phase 3: -

Another campaign was conducted through our BSSS carnival. Games were prepared like the Snake & ladder with questions about HIV. Booklets & brochures were distributed again. Posters were put everywhere in the faculty again.

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Target Group: 1- Of the workshop: BSSS members & interested medical students in spreading our awareness. 2- Of the campaign: - Medical students. - Doctors. - Nurses. - Faculty clerks & security officers.

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Slogan: "Getting To Zero Stigma, Discrimination & Infection".

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Outcome: -

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Positives: -

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Good Fund. Good materials provided nationally. The already nationally trained core team.

Challenges & Obstacles: -

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No. of trainees in the workshop "Core team": 22. No. of people reached directly during the campaign by our Stationary desk & ambulatory teams: 300. Estimated No. of indirectly reached people in the campaign " through Lecture announcements, online publications, Posters & Brochures: 1500.

Very bad timing of the project: most of the team was working under severe stress due to the final term Exams "we have to take in our account that now most of the faculty has credit hours program with half term & term exams every 3 months. Very vague message that makes us exert extra effort to conduct all of it at the same time.

Comments & Suggestions: -

I would suggest more material support next year to cover more target group. More flexibility in Time choosing because December is a very tough period due to exams besides a lot of other projects in other committees are already running.

Minimize the message to only 1 aspect each year to be able to advocate it more accurately.

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International Women's Day " IWD" Project coordinator: Israa Abdulmoniem. 

Aim: 1- Advocating for Women’s right and gender equity. 2- Empowering of young people to realize their full potentials and contribute positively to their communities. 3- Empowering Women who are Empowering Children to become entrepreneurs in a changing world. Celebrating moms, grandmas and women care givers all across Egypt who are breeding and rearing youth entrepreneurs. 4- Creating a unique opportunity for women of every background and age to contribute to each other’s growth. 5- Provide networking with different groups and professionals with provisions and services for young people and the community 6- Inspiring all women to be ready for success, to achieve their excellence, receive their abundance as one in support of all.

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Time: 6th of march 2013.

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Target Group: -

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Public

BSSS Participation in this Project: -

Participation in all online publication for the event on all social networks through our official page & accounts on face book & Twitter.

Having 5 members from BSSS taking place in the O.C of the event.

A photographer from BSSS has attended the event & taken pictures for the event.

BSSS recruited 30 people to attend the event " we were the 2 nd biggest delegation"

Participating in the international women's day online campaign through our official face book & twitter accounts.

Slogan: "Take The floor"

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Comments & Suggestions: -

Keeping the idea of national celebration with a big conference like that.

Introducing a 2nd phase to the project in the form of an outreach campaigns in each LC.

Providing LCs with posters & material for publication for the event.

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Breast Cancer Local Coordinator: Ayah Bayomi. 

Aim: 1. Teach many young women how to self-examine themselves for breast cancer and tell them to tell their loved ones. 2. Emphasize the importance of monthly self-examination and annual mammogram. 3. Erase the idea that breast cancer only comes to females. 4. Spread awareness about breast cancer in the whole Benha society and making people less embarrassed and scared of talking about it. 5. Fundraising for the oncology department to share in the price of expensive chemotherapeutics for breast cancer “we have talked to the oncology unit & they welcomed any help from us”.

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Time: 1- Sunday 11 November 2012 Phase 1: faculty campaign “The Pink day”. 2- Tuesday 13 November 2012 Phase 2: 2ry school girls campaign “ in Kafr shukr 2ry school for girls” 3- June 2013: phase 3 "another faculty campaign during the quality control unit visit to the faculty.

 Methodology: 1- Phase 1: faculty campaign on Sunday 11 November 2012. “The Pink day” -

We conducted awareness campaign in our faculty, we dressed Pink , put on pink ribbons & pink IDS , made pink decorations with balloons & pink ribbons everywhere in the faculty.

Pink tips about breast cancer in Arabic & English & put everywhere in the faculty & on walls & lecture halls.

Breast cancer wall magazine “masterpiece” in the faculty hall including all important data & statistics & steps of self-examination & mammogram.

Information desk: an information desk having 3 girls & one boy all over the day to answer people’s questions & to spread awareness about our campaign & the disease & importance of self examination & regular annual mammogram & symptoms of breast cancer. Pink tree of hope : a tree of papers written on each branch of it a story by a faculty student about a close one who has had breast cancer & her story &

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how he/she felt for her & whether she used self-examination to detect it or not earlier. Sticky notes written by faculty students, professors & employees about our campaign & about what they think of breast cancer & their evaluation for the campaign. Lectures hint: we entered all lectures that were running on that day & we made a rapid statement about our mission & our campaign & importance of the topic & told the students to seek our info. Desk after lectures to know more. We sold pink bracelets & pink pens & its money was conducted to the oncology department to treat breast cancer patients.

2- Phase 2: 2ry school girls campaign “ in Kafr shukr 2ry school for girls” On Tuesday 13 November 2012 a- School girls workshop: “conducted by Br. Samia Gamal , Assistant lecturer of surgery at Banha university hospital” we conducted a workshop to 50 School girls about breast cancer & taught them about : -

Why we to care about breast cancer. How to do self examination. To teach this to their family & their colleagues. Symptoms & diagnosis of breast cancer. We were really surprised by their curiosity to know more & their questions.

b- School teachers workshop: We conducted a workshop to them about breast cancer to tell them about our Mission & asked them to conduct our message to their students & to stress on it again. -

We taught them how to do self-examination too. We showed them video of self-examination. We found the teachers so cooperative with us & they wanted to know more & they were very interested to keep in touch with us for updates about breast cancer. Finally, we left a book about breast cancer in Arabic in the school in the school library for all teachers & girls to see & learn from it.

3- Phase 3: During the quality control committee visit to our faculty we printed brochures & conducted another campaign during BSSS activity fair in this day.

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BSSS Members. Students in our faculty Young females in Schools. Teachers.

BSSS-SCORA end term report 2012/2013  Slogan: "Fight for cure, fight for life"

 Outcome: 1- Phase 1: - Direct reach to 100 Students through our information desk. - Indirect reach to about 1000 students through lectures & sections hints, Wall magazine & brochures. 2- Phase 2: - We reached about 50 2ry school girl & they were told to conduct the msg to their friends & family members. - We reached 30 teachers in the school & they were willing to conduct our message to all other teachers & students. - So by simple calculation we can say we reached all the 2ry school girls in that small town “Kafr shukr” & about 100 families indirectly through our workshops & campaign. 3- Phase 3: - During the quality unit visit to our faculty we introduced another limited campaign & distributed 200 brochures & prepared an information desk to give awareness about Breast cancer.

 Suggestions & Comments: -

Running of Mr. & Mrs. Breastestis Project during October to give us national support during our local breast cancer campaigns in October.

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"Estargel" Anti sexual harassment project Project Coordinator: Israa Diaa.  Aim: To eradicate this bad habit from our society & to reach a society free of sexual assault towards females. Reaching a safe steer that will protect rather than abuse a female & blaming the assaulter not the victim regardless of what she is wearing. 1Raising social conviction against sexual harassment. 2Preparing new generation for a sexual harassment free future.

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Preparing a core team from benha students that will fight sexual harassment. Starting an anti-sexual harassment activity in Benha city that will introduce that idea to benha society.

 Organizers: it was a conjoined SCORA-SCORP project.

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Phase 1 : Logo & Slogan competition, Online campaign & Publication for the project. 18-24 march 2013. Phase 2: University Survey & data analysis. 27-28 March 2013. Phase 3: Workshop for core team. 16 april 2013. Phase 4: Sexual harassment research. June & July 2013.

 Methodology: 1- Phase 1 : Logo & Slogan competition, Online campaign & Publication for the project: -

We opened a call to choose the logo & slogan for our project & the chosen logo was sent by a well known painter for a lot of newspapers. - We made an online campaign through a big online competition on quotes about sexual harassment: We received 45 quotes from faculty students about sexual harassment & we opened a competition on the post that will get the most likes. - This online campaign has reached 11795 People with the winner post getting "469" likes on Face book & 30 retweet on twitter. - The winner quote was printed on a big poster & put in the faculty during BSSS carnival.

BSSS-SCORA end term report 2012/2013 2- Phase 2: University Survey: -

A scientifically reviewed survey was established by our SCORA-Survey & data analysis assistant Ms. Yasmina Badr in cooperation with MSSA-Mansoura Estargel initiator Mr. Ahmed Almansour with revision from Statistics professor in our university Dr. Mona Almahdy. Survey was distributed according to statistical rules in our faculty of medicine & in other university faculties. Target group was divided into age groups to: 1- University students: covered by 300 female survey & 150 male survey. 2- Employees & officers: covered by 200 female survey & 100 male survey. Survey answers were analyzed & reviewed to make a solid data base about the problem & to know more about the nature of our target group to make use of it during our workshop phase.

3- Phase 3: Workshop phase: -

A Workshop about sexual harassment was held to form the core team who will continue the next phases of the project next years & to give them good data & skills to go into campaigns later. The workshop was in cooperation with: a- Khaleek Insan Anti Sexual harassment campaign. b- Tahrir Body gaurds Anti sexual harassment campaign who are social activists against sexual harassment for 3 years. c- National women's Council in Qalyobiya. d- Psychiatry department at our faculty of medicine. e- Psychology department of Benha faculty of arts.

The workshop covered: a- Survey analysis results & it's importance. b- Women empowerment issue in our society. c- The problem of sexual harassment & how to fight it socially. d- Psychology of the harasser & how to raise children to be against sexual harassment. e- Behavior change session on how to change the behavior of people who commit sexual harassment. 4- Research on sexual harassment: A research was made depending on the results of our survey & this research was introduced to the national women's council competition for the best research on women's issues of the year & it was awarded by the council as 1 of the best researches for this year.

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University students all over Benha. BSSS members to form the core team. The public.

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Slogan: " " ‫جرب تكون راجل‬

 Outcome: -

Reaching 750 university students & employees with the survey over all the faculties of Benha university. Making publication with our banner in the whole university about our project. Making good relations with organizations working in this field in Benha & outside Benha. Forming BSSS core team for sexual harassment project.

 Challenges & obstacles: -

Sensitivity of the topic. No established anti sexual harassment activity in Benha to help us.

 Comments & Suggestions: -

As the project has been accepted to run nationally this year I would suggest forming a good core team who would provide support for all LCs about the Project.

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SCORA Presentation skills day  Aim: To improve presentations skills of all SCORA members by giving them basic presentation skills through a training then giving them the opportunity to make a presentation during SCORA presentations day & commenting on their strengths & weaknesses to teach them.

 Time: Saturday 7 september 2012.

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Arranging a presentation skills training with BSSS-TSD conducted by our BSSS trainers. SCORA presentations day: every SCORA member have to prepare a presentation to present during this day in front of other members & an evaluation committee from BSSS trainers & board members. Presenters were given a score on their performance & best presenter was awarded best SCORA presenter of the year. A prize was given to the winner to motivate her & to motivate other members to improve their performance next time.

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A very big thanks to all SCORAngels who Rose BSSS-SCORA very high & made us rock as usual. also to all members from other committees who contributed to this success of our committee projects & activities.

Without team work we would have done nothing! ……………………………….

Presented by: Karim Hebishi BSSS-LORA 2012/2013

Long Life SCORAngels ;)