title: Community YouthMapping: female youth voices through empowerment and workforce preparation.
abstract: Because of poverty, many girls and young women throughout Egypt neglect their education in order to marry early, help in the fields, gain immediate employment, or carry out domestic labor to meet family needs. In Egypt, the Academy for Educational Development's Community YouthMapping (CYM) has been structured to provide a solid foundation for a systemic approach to education reform. CYM focuses on changing communities' perceptions and behavior through its youth and mechanisms to develop transferable skills to those who have traditionally been marginalized during afterschool time.
authors.affiliation: Egypt Education Reform Program at the Academy for Educational Development.
authors.forename: Shoroke H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Zedan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D019058:Community Networks; D004534:Egypt; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011209:Power, Psychological