In the year 2000, the Center held two training courses, one held in the interval between (6-8) March, while the other was held between (22-25) of the same month. The two symposiums were attended be 60 young men and women from the various villages west or east to the Nile in Bebba’s center in Beni Suif province. Some of them were laborers in the quarries, while others worked in the different crafts such as electricity, black smithy workshops, and trade. Also, 15 girls attended who work in different fields, and have either intermediate or sub intermediate qualifications. Also, a number of the quarries’ children’s parents, some teachers, members of the Regional People’s Assembly of Bebba’s Center, 3 employees at Beni Suif and Bebba’s Office for Labor and Ins., and some owners of the marble quarries in the east regions of the Nile.
The main objectives of these courses were to champion the human capacities in the eastern territories of the Nile, as well as to enlighten the children and their parents about the importance of preserving the environment and about their legal rights, especially the children laboring in the marble quarries.
The first course was entitled “The rights of the youth and the children laboring in crushers & marble quarries”, while the second took the name of “The right to a healthy clean environment”. Two papers were issued about these causes; the first was about the Child’s legal rights, exploring the human rights international agreements that concern children and the progress these agreements have reached. It depicts the International agreement on the Child’s right, and the laws that the Egyptian legislator had set concerning the Child Labor, and concludes in discussing the children’s conditions underlying the “Unified Labor Law”. This paper embraces all the details of the first training course. As for the second paper, it summarizes the details of the second course about the environment and the human right to a clear environment. It included the local and international efforts exerted for overcoming the aggravating environmental problems in the World in general, and in Egypt in particular, and the visions resulting from the international conferences in that field. The paper then moves to debate with the attendants about their roles in preserving the environment and their right to claim for the sufficient means of up-keeping their environment from being polluted, the thing that negatively affects their health and lies as well.
Open discussions followed the presentation of those two papers. In these discussions, the attendants – who were divided into groups – participated with their questions and suggestions around the issues of the courses. (Evaluation Questionnaires) were distributed on the attendance to write down their opinions about the courses through answering a number of questions. The courses’ activities ended with a final ceremony that included all the attendance. They stated - through their (Evaluation Questionnaires) and the primary conversations attached - how these courses were useful to them, and how ready they are to take part in executing whatever conclusions they reached themselves. Besides, they showed a will to participate in similar courses that prove how concerned the National Labor members are with the issues and the problems of the Child Labor, aiming to enlighten and urge them to participate in the labor efficacy.