Team:Cairo Egypt/Practices
Human Practices
At iGEM Cairo, we care about humans just as much as we care about bacteria! Therefore, we have started initiatives to educate and interact with our community and its beloved members through our outreach programs.
1- Breast cancer foundation of Egypt
Breast cancer forms 38.8%of all reported tumors in Egyptian females (Cancer Incidence in Egypt: Results of the National Population-Based Cancer Registry Program) which is a shocking percentage and it has come to our attention that due to the high illiteracy rates and terrible health care, breast cancer might go undetected. So we felt responsible about doing something about it.. and who’s a better entity to partner with than the breast cancer foundation of Egypt? The Breast Cancer Foundation of Egypt is a non-profit organization for over 10 years, BCFE has been providing a high level of care and diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation services for women from different social and economic strata around Egypt. BCFE has also been promoting early detection guidelines. After heading to their HQ and talking to them about our project, they agreed to our team members participating in their awareness campaign and were extremely warm and welcoming.
2- Children’s University- Cairo University
Children’s university is a nation-wide project and the programme we collaborated with specifically has been designed by the faculty of Science, Cairo University and is a program especially designed to introduce different science departments to elementary and middle students of diverse backgrounds to science in a simplified yet extremely educational and informative interactive and fun sessions This sparked an idea. iGEM Cairo spoke to the Children’s University coordinators and set up an exciting session about the ABC project, bacteria, cancer, protective measures, and healthy habits. The session was scheduled on September 1st 2015 and it as exciting, fun-filled and the children both enjoyed and learned from it.
