Prevention and Promotion
Prevention and Promotion in action.
I have thought of the term “Prevention” as brilliant since it was introduced earlier in the course. I thought it might be the only pragmatic, effective approach to tackling and solving problems at any ecological level. From Individual to Macrosystems. I even found that I actually apply it often in personal matters and relationships. There is really no point of letting the problem arise and flourish then look for ways to treat it. That is by all means foolish and completely inefficient. Dealing with the problem after it arises is more complex and hardly has promising outcomes as that problem has probably caused various others, and have had deep-rooted effects that are too hard to eliminate. This perfectly applies to Egypt. Prevention is obviously lacking here and this has had a cumulative effect. Unprevented problems of various kinds have been arising one after the other too rapidly that currently they are too numerous and complex to be solved. We have no sufficient resources to solve the amount of issues we have let to grow all these years, and still. We cannot afford to have any more major issues getting worse, and we already have enough problems to treat, so its time to introduce and implement Prevention in Egypt. We are literally in desperate need of it. We need this cost-effective approach to hinder as many problems as possible from arising and adding up to the rest.
I am delighted to have witnessed Prevention applied in Egypt through Safe, the child sexual abuse organization in which we have our project. Safes main approaches are basically prevention and promotion. They do not mainly aim at treating sexually abused children, but instead they aim at preventing sexual abuse from occurring to children. They hold sexual abuse awareness sessions during which children are informed of what it is. How would an abuser approach them. How they should deal