Sisi is ‘honored’ to meet youth advocate Yassin Zoghby

CAIRO - 24 July 2017: Young activist Yassin Zoghby meets the Egyptian president Abdel Fatah el-Sisi at the 4th Youth Conference in Alexandria on Monday.

Zoghby is a young teenager who is determined to redefine disabilities and spark a glimmer of hope in all the Egyptian youth to see beyond their obstacles.

He toured across the country to deliver the struggles of the youth around Egypt at the 4th National Youth Conference. President Sisi was “honored” to have met him and expressed his deep gratitude. A short film that documented Zoghby’s journey across country was screened at the forum narrating his journey from governorate to governorate.

Around 1,300 youth will attend the conference, along with parliamentarians, heads of unions and universities, journalists, public figures, and representatives of the National Council for Women and the National Council for Human Rights.

The National Youth Conference is scheduled to kick off every three months as decided previously by the president during its launch in October 2016, when the first conference took place in Sharm El-Sheikh. The last conference was held in April in Ismailia and discussed Egypt’s economic conditions and development projects.