A new Facebook campaign titled “For All The Unemployed” is currently collecting signatures from all unemployed Egyptian youth in governorates across the nation. The campaign mission reads, “We demand that the Egyptian Cabinet and ruling military council provide job opportunities in the government or private sector or provide a subsidy to those unemployed until a job is secured.” “A coordinated effort through Facebook and the central office has resulted in more than 12,000 signatures as of right now,” said Movement Spokesman Khaled el-Hawary. The campaign is working to collect as many signatures from as many Egyptian governorates as possible, he added. The movement will stage protests outside Cabinet headquarters after Eid el-Fitr to demand that Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf implement a jobs program to combat the growing problem of unemployed, college-educated youth, said el-Hawary. One of the aims of the campaign is to avoid misplaced requests and demand letters, said el-Hawary, referencing the lost requests sent to the Egyptian Ministries of Finance and Labor. Dozens of members organized several protests in front of Cabinet headquarters after requests to those ministries went unnoticed and unacknowledged, he added.
