The Egyptians Center is inviting you next Sunday June 12

[abdelwahab hassan]

The Egyptians center is inviting you next Sunday From 5:00 to 7:00 PM

at the center location at 5881 Leesburg pike # B1-a, Falls Church, VA 22041 

Ms. Sahar Aziz to present about EARLA and give a presentation about the situation in Egypt with regard to rule of law.  

Sahar Aziz is a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and teaches a course on national security at the Georgetown University Law Center and she is an immigration and a civil rights lawyer 

and also a follow up the monthly meeting last Sunday

Please try to invite youth from the new generations to guide us what are the services they need from us to provide

The center welcomes the donations of the items donated to the salvation army and goodwill and it will be offered to the community for free

Also the center like to thank

          ------- Mr. Mohamed Elbarabri who donated his personal computer to the center

          ------- Ms. Fatma Owais, Ms.Fathia Soliman and Mr. Samir Elsheikh to serve on the board for the center

          ------- Ms Fathia for pledging  a projector with the slides and a labtop for the Educations of Arabic classes to our youth

          ------- Mr. Amin Mahmoud for bringing items to be offered for free to community

          ------- Mr. Girgis F Girgis for donating $50.00 toward the rent of the center

The center is offering Arabic Classes for our youth from all ages and levels with the highest quality, for those who are interested please contact Mr. Hassan 703-626-9570

below is last week's meeting Minutes.

Abdelwahab Hassan

703-626-9570

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Minutes of Sunday  June 5, 2011 Meeting

This was the monthly meeting to evaluate the activities of the month and to discuss how to make the Egyptians as a big family in America

We had a good attendance and we discussed the following

-          Follow up on the voting rights for the Egyptian Americans and how to get people ready for making the Egyptian ID cards since we will be having a committee coming from Egypt to make national ID’s for us

-          The importance of attracting the second Egyptian generations to work with us and we discussed inviting them to an activity day and Fatma Owais suggested a big place on George mason Dr to receive them and listen to their ideas and suggestions and also we suggested age groups meeting where youth from the age groups from  5-7  and 8-10 and 11-14 and 15-18 and 19- up for different coming together

-          Ms. Fatma Owais made presentation about the Arabic classes the center will provide and she explained that it is a high quality classes using the books used in colleges and government classes and she showed us the books and explained about the three levels (beginners, intermediate and advanced) and she will be overseeing the classes and using the best teachers who were also present at the meeting, there will be classes for those less than 18 and also adult classes

-          Mr. Hassan said he was able to agree with a dentist to offer us discounts from 30- 50% from the regular prices for dental services

-          and explained that medical services could also be obtained from other doctors to the community

-          Mr. Girgis F Girgis also explained that the Egyptian St. Mark church is offering medical services for low income that could be as low as $5.00

-          Also we all agreed the center will receive any items that is usually donated to Salvation army and Good will and the center will offer them for free for the community

-          Ms. Fathia who owns a big child care center in Mclean offered a discount of 50% for the members of the center in her very high quality place

 

The meeting was a successful meeting and everyone expressed his determination to make the center Idea to succee