WYF Workshop to change stereotypical attitude toward people with disabilities

CAIRO – 2 November 2018: The World Youth Forum’s (WYF) pre-forum workshop was held on Friday, revolving around the need to change the stereotypical attitude towards people with disabilities to help them integrate into society without any discrimination in a way that preserves their dignity and humanity

WYF pre-forum workshops took off earlier Thursday with a session titled, 'Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want’.

Other workshops are scheduled to take place Friday and the opening ceremony is set to take place Saturday evening. The forum’s second edition will convene in Sharm el-Sheikh between November 3 and 6, 2018.

The World Youth Forum’s (WYF) pre-forum workshops took off earlier Thursday with a session titled, 'Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want’.

Other workshops are scheduled to take place Friday and the opening ceremony is set to take place Saturday evening. The forum’s second edition will convene in Sharm el-Sheikh between November 3 and 6, 2018.

With youths from 20 African countries participating, the workshop today focused widely on how individuals can play a key role in the development and branding of the African continent. Participants were divided into five groups, each of which took on a specific topic and worked to decipher it and find recommendations, with the aim and goal of creating initiatives to better their countries.

The workshop covered a wide array of topics from Information and Communications Technology, to combating terrorism at state and non-state levels, to small- and medium-sized enterprise, to marketing the African continent.
Nearly 122,000 youth from 195 countries register in the second edition of the World Youth Forum (WYF), set for Sharm el Sheikh city on November 3-6.

The forum's managers decided to close registration for the 2018 forum, which is held under the auspices of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.

They announced that 122,000 youth aged from 18 to 40 registered online in the forum. Out of 122,000, 68,000 persons registered to participate in the forum and 13,000 others to take the chance to speak up loud.

Also, 5,000 artists registered to participate in the forum's theater.

The forum also decided to host 5,000 youth from 145 countries to participate in this year's forum, compared to 3,000 participants last year.


The WYF in its second annual version will tackle two main axes: peace and development.

The first axis will discuss reconstructing post-conflict countries and societies, the role of world leaders in achieving peace, the duty of the international community to provide humanitarian assistance, counter-terrorism issues, and Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

The theme of the development will include topics related to energy and water security, empowerment of people with disabilities, the role of voluntary work in building societies, the agenda of 2063 African Sustainable Development, digital citizenship, the role of art and cinema in shaping communities, ways to build future leaders, and the means of shrinking the gender gap in the work force.

An Arab-African Summit Simulation Model will be held on the sidelines of the Forum, as was recommended during the African Union Simulation Model held in May 2018 as part of the activation of the recommendations of the 2017 World Youth Forum.

The first edition of the World Youth Forum was launched from Nov. 4-10, 2017 in Sharm el-Sheikh. It was attended by 3,200 participants from 113 countries. The forum was a platform for 222 speakers from 64 countries with expertise in various fields, gathered in 46 sessions.

In the 2017 edition, the participating leaders and experts discussed various international and regional issues, including crises of migration and refugees, democracy and human rights, African stability and development, and globalization and cultural identity, as well as the technology and social media and their impact on the population.