Educational Empowerment

Project Description:

Bedouin pupils aspire to study and get a higher education but are often forced by their parents to stay at home. In order to reduce this phenomenon, we developed an intensive year-long program to reduce the percentage of young girls leaving school and help them and their parents understand, appreciate and adapt to the new role and status of women in modern society.  The program involves increasing their self-esteem, remedial learning to keep them in school, inter-personal communication skills, exposure to the outside world through field trips and lectures, health education, building awareness of social issues and civil rights and more.

In January 2006, Association’s team made survey among a number of 380 the Bedouin pupils, 100 female pupils who go to Junior School. The results of the survey showed that  100% of the pupils don’t go to High school There are two main explanations: Firstly, these girls have low achievements at schools and have a feeling “I have nothing to do in the school”, so they chose to sit at home. Secondly, some parents were afraid to send their girls to school as a result of insecurity situation in the city, so they chose to keep their girls at home.