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Bullying Killed His Best Friend, So He Launched an Organisation to Fight Against it in Egypt

November 16, 2018

“Nine years ago, my best friend committed suicide from bullying,” Mostafa Ashraf, founder of Advice Seekers, says to Egyptian Streets, “and since then, I felt like I should create something to help people to be the person that stands beside others that do not have anyone standing beside them.” When he was just 15 years old, Mostafa Ashraf created the Facebook page ‘Advice Seekers’ to help both himself and others to combat bullying. It was just slowly beginning to develop until a university in Egypt, Modern Academy, gave him a call to do a campaign at their campus. “I was not really confident in speaking in front of others and had no communication skills, so I started to do a lot of research and contacted a psychologist to help me in all of that,” he says. Following that, the Facebook page created by a young and determined kid turned into a large campaign with many people seeking to join it, appearing on TV shows like “Masah DMC” with Eman El Hosary and featured in an article on Sky Arabia. The organisation now does campaigns at 60 to 80 schools and…


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