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Can you believe that is happening in the twenty-first century Geberat Youth Center is locked in the closet !!
In the governorate of Sohag, a village which is embraced by the mountain, and which is called Geberat, is eligible to become a haven for serpents, drugs and violence as its inhabitants live without any services whatsoever. The medical unit, which was established five years ago, has not opened its doors for public service yet, drinking water is not pure, more than 300 individuals in the village suffer from kidney failure, and the inhabitants of the village grief their youth who suffer from liver and kidney diseases. You will find hundreds of tragedies and stories which will isolate you from the world inside the houses and alleys of this village. The latest of these tragedies was the death of a citizen who was ran over by a police vehicle: the citizen’s clothes got stuck to the police vehicle which continued to drag the citizen on the ground for a whole kilometer until all his body parts became deformed. Despite all this, some of the village’s residents and youth tried to get out of these tragedies and nightmares by trying to establish a Youth Center to teach people and gather them away from violence, disease and migration, which did not stop whether to the cities inside Egypt or to other countries outside of Egypt. They convinced some farmers to donate to them so that they were able to buy an area of 8 carats and allocate it for the Youth Center. The Youth Center was licensed under No. 323/2007 by the Ministry of Youth and Sport in Cairo. The resolution committed the competent authorities to implement this resolution. But in spite of the approval of all the parties concerned to establish the Youth Center; and the temporary board of directors submitting a request for a construction subvention to the Ministry of Youth and Sport in the years 2007 and 2008, the various governmental bodies did not look into the requests of the people. And as the inhabitants of the village say "The government has an ear made of clay and an ear made of dough."
The LCHR wonders, Who will hold this government responsible for the deliberate neglect of its role in supporting the rights of citizens? And who will the citizens go to with their complaints if deliberate neglect has reached the degree of fraud - the simplest justification for violating the most elementary rights of citizens is that our financial resources are limited.
The LCHR presents the complaints of the inhabitants and those of the board of directors of the Geberat Youth Center to the officials at the Ministry of Youth and sport, Sohag Governorate, and the Prime Minister, asking them to quickly establish playgrounds and rooms for the Youth Center; construct a desalination station for the village’s drinking water, in order to stop the production of the renal failure and hepatitis diseases and in order to improve development conditions and ensure the rights of citizens to medical care and decent living.
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