CAIRO — Muslim female preachers and Christian nuns attended an awareness course at Assiut University on Sept. 13-14. This came as part of the training they have been receiving in the Door to Door campaign, led by Egypt's National Council for Women, in cooperation with the Ministry of Religious Endowments and the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church to promote Egyptian women’s issues.

The head of Egypt's National Council for Women, Maya Morsi, said during a press conference at the ministry’s headquarters Sept. 7 that the Door to Door campaign reached 1 million Egyptian women, adding that "a lot of the problems women suffered from were resolved."

Morsi had stated in mid-August that the campaign reached 410,845 women, and it continues to take place in about 22 Egyptian governorates.

The Door to Door campaign, which was launched July 25, will be ongoing until October. The campaign opens informative dialogues that target particular issues during face-to-face meetings with women and their families and provides religious, social or legal solutions to the problems raised. These problems include girls dropping out of schools, female genital mutilation, violence against women and denying women the right to inherit in some parts of Egypt.