Zakher News / Global Campaign Education for All


11/05/2011

Zakher Association for Developing Palestinian Women Capacities  has implemented many of the activities and events such as  workshops and  valuable performances to highlight the right of girls and women in education and screening a documentary about depriving women of their right  of  education within the activities and events of the "Global Campaign for Education for All" during the period from 2 to 8 May 2011 in coordination of the Teacher Creativity Center, and under the supervision of the General Union of Cultural Centers and within the innovation  of educational within  educational  forums  under the supervision of gender project  supervised by  Nisreen Al Mabhouh.

 Also it was was presented the story of "Mrs. Insherah  Al Manasra " or Om Ghassan, who has been  deprived from the right of  education, but did not give up. Her ambition to  forces her complete the study, especially after her marriage and the giving  birth of her five children and then became  an active community-based NGOs, in particular at Zakher, which granted  her to hold the position of Secretary General . She has  highlighted the main challenges she  faced in her life and she presented her story in front of a large group of women and girls who did not have chance in education.

Moreover, a workshop has  been implemented  between the girls  who has been deprived of education and their mothers and all of them put their own reasons that led to the denial of education  . Some of  reasons  are dating back to the girl herself   that she doesn't  have  desire to complete her education . Other  reasons  are  belonging to the people in their inability to complete  education or for other reasons  which have been presented and discussed together.

Ms. Ina'am Hillis, chairman of the Zakher stated  that education is a right and a  duty of every girl and woman who  has ambition in education to improve their cultural, educational and social level  . Education is a weapon for them all at any time and at any place, and that education is not limited by time or place or limited to age.

The events concluded on the final day of the campaign  which included an open day entertaining competitions and   theatrical sketch and an open meeting with the ladies as a kind of psychological support to women who participated in campaign activities