Karama Newsletter:

Newsletter 06

Dehisha Camp, 31.03.2006

Karama's educational project (report) since June 2005 until March 2006  

Karama has started the education project which is supported be the Austrian Development Cooperation, since June 2005.  
1-The full-time teacher working up to 48 hours a week, dedicating part of his time
(about 8 hours per week) to administrational tasks, as he is the education supervisor for the Education preject
 
2-The part-time teachers thy are working 12 hours a week each. Each day, one or more teachers are available for homework supervision for about 4.5 hours (31.5 hours per week). In their remaining time they giving lessons.
3- the information center is opening most of the day

Karama organizations takes on its responsibility to solve the educational problems that most of the pupils and women in Dehesheh refugees' camp are facing, especially in the English language, math and the  Arabic language.

The first Trail of Karama,
Karama depends since its establish on the volunteers, who convinced at the principle of what Karama seek for .All volunteers put all their efforts to contribute and develop the trail of Karama.

English language,
Karama educational project gives more concern at English to establish and  develop the pupils skills  by giving them a lot of extra courses as:

1. the kids: to establish their abilities by the education project empluye as the volunteers "Tamer al-Khomour. Jessica and Paul.
2. courses to the  basic stage by Tamer . Jessica, Beia and Hannah.
3. courses for women.

Math
The aim is to give many courses in Karama, is to solve the problem that the students face in all stages and to be able to understand the new  material.

1. intensive course to basic grade by volunteer Khalid Abu Laban, and Wae'l Shehada(Full-time teacher)
2. courses to the high school "Tawjehi" by Wae'l Shehada (Full-time teacher)

computers
the aim to give this course is to introduce the students with the importance of  the computer and to know how to deal with it and to work on:

1. Microsoft word program
2. power point program
3. internet.

The experiment  of Karama now
The effort of Karama education increased because a number of students come seeking for solving their educational problem especially in English and math. So Karama has contracted with the teacher of English.
Khader Abu Obeid (Part-time teacher), and Wae'l Shehada to work Full-time since 2005.

English language
The organization helps 30 students and the timetable is as  the following
- Tawjehi (high school): three lectures weekly.

- Eleven grade:  three hours weekly
- Tenth grade:  three hours  weekly.
As he help for home works.
- The pupils under the age of thirteen by the volunteer Tamer and (Rabab Marwan) Part-time teacher .

Math

The organization helps 85 (boys and girls) as the following:
- High school: four  hours weekly
- Eleventh grade:  three hours weekly "scientific"
- Eleventh grade:  three hours "literary"
- Tenth grade:  three hours weekly
- Ninth grade:  three hours
- Eighth grade:  three hours
     - Seventh grade : three hours
And the rest working as supervisor and helps with home works as the administrational tasks .
Arabic language
High school for four hours weekly with the teacher Muhammad Abu Ajamea.
The General science
The high school for three hours every week with Muhammad Rakaban.

Computer

This organization provides a help to one hundred guy (boys and girls) in computer area through :

1. elementary course to the boys and girls.
2. internet for all.

first computer courses
The organization provides high courses to three of its volunteers in one of specialist in city. Through these employees and volunteers, the organization gives many courses of computers for two months to the members of the organization for both sex.
Nowadays the organization provides many courses as the following :

1. course to boys and girls (10 -13 years old) with  the part time teacher Rabab Marwan 4 hours  a week.
2. courses  to 13 -15 years old students given  by Rabab Marwan two and half 4.30 hours a week.
3. as she give arbice language 6 hours aweek for differant levels to help with home works.
4. course for woman to helpe the to get to know how to use the computer (three hours a week).

The Karama's general library.

As result of the karama educational project which is funded by the Austrian
In 2006, Karama has opened its general library, which came as a result of the big efforts that Karama does, to create a central cultural opinion, which helps the students and pupil with many ways:
1.  the general edification for all ages.

1. educating women in health, education and in their rights and duties.
2.  developing the children's knowledge and skills in all the cultural ways and sides.
3.  filling the children's time in reading the  interesting international stories.
4.   helping the universities student with writing researches by finding the  sources and authorities.
5. to buildup a stronger relationship between the readers and their society and humanity, by getting knowledge on religion and habits which relates to the Palestinian society.

All of that is done by karam's volunteer Fayez al-Khomour: and karama's (part time teacher) Rabab Marwan  . Fayez and Rabab who are working at the library in deferent shifts, and they also do the activities which relates to the library and especially the cultural competitions between the children.
If this is the beginning and with only one thousand books we get  one hundred beneficial every week, so you could imagine the useful from this library in the future when the  number of  the books become tens of thousands.

The subject (women's voice)
Introduction: this subject is a part of Karama educational project.
The benefits sector: the university girls students (from 18 years old and above).
Hold by the Part-time teacher (Rabab) and Zahera
The aim (objectives) :

1. to know the importance of women in the society .
2. to develop  some abilities and skills to the young  girl to enable them under take important position in the society.
3. to operate the young girls participation in various activates which are being  held in Karama and other societies.
4. to discuss many issues concern with the problems that the women suffer from, and obstacles they face in the society .
5. to know all the positions that women take place procedures.
6. to gather a number of young girls to participate in this issues.
7. to know the important subject that they want to discuss.
8. to present many issues by supervisor and discuss with young girls
9. to try to meet women in effective positions in the society, and to take advantage from their experience.
10. to try to help some young girls to be able to be a leader in the society as the others.
11. to participate in any lectures or discussions or festivals held by any society  or organization concern  with the women issues.

subjects:

• some problems that they face such as early marriage , a limited opportunity to take a decision, and regulations expose on them.
• work  dominated by men but they can do it as trade, drive and other jobs that  the society refuses to give the women an opportunity to work in it.

21.12.04

Newsletter 04


1. Present activities:
Computer courses
Four times a week two of our youth are giving computer courses for girls and boys. The courses are devided into three different levels. Once a week "computer beginners" are introduced in the fundamental knowledge of dealing with Microsoft. A second course has formed to learn how to design and deal with an own website. Meanwhile some of the older kids meet twice a week to improve their abilities in web-design and programming.
Furthermore Karama's computer centre is used by the kids to prepare and write the new issue of the Karama magazine, which will be published every month.


Dabka
One of the Kids' favourite projects is certain the Dabka workshop. Twice a week both boys and girls meet in the centre to learn and practice the traditional Arabic dance. For that purpose one boy out of the group has taken the responsibility and teaches the other participiants.
Beyond the regular meetings, Karama-Kids often use every available minute to dance and teach others Dabka in one of our rooms.


English Lessons
The German volunteer Jessica is giving nine English lessons a week for 5 th until 11 th grade. Those days the courses are sometimes extended as the students are preparing for their half-year examminations. In addition to deal with common school books, Karama also tries to find other ways of teaching a foreign language to children and adolescents. Once a week we offer a "English For Fun"-workshop, where the kids can play English games (e.g. memory), sing and dance to English songs, cook and prepare food (e.g. salad to learn English vocabulary of fruits) and many more. Besides Karama is planning to arrange trips around the Deheishe area, where the kids will learn English words of what they can see and touch.

 
Psychological Care
The social worker Zahira comes once a week to the Karama centre to take special care for girls and young women. In a closed meeting they are encouraged to speak and discuss about everything they like (problems, wishes, ideas, fears.) without beeing disturbed by others. By means of paintings, collages and others they exchange and digest their experiences and thoughts.

 
Assistance lessons for students of the University
In Deheishe there are a lot of young people studying at the Open University in Bethlehem . Some of them are going to work at the same time to earn money for their families. That is why those students are not able to join the open lectures regularly. In the evening after work, they try to catch up on the subjects which often prove to be difficulty without the help of others.
Wa'el, a Karama-volunteer giving already Mathmatics lessons for boys and girls now also offers assistance lessons in Analyse and Mathmatic management for the students of his study year. In a period of several months he will prepare two groups of young men for their final examinations 3 - 4 times a week.

 
Mathmatics assisitance lessons
As mentioned earlier, the young student Wa'el offers six Mathmatics courses for boys and girls (in gender devided classes) joining Secondary and Highschool. Teachers of the two UN-schools in Deheishe usually are not able to take special care for students having difficulties of comprehension because of overcrowded classes (43 pupils per class on the average) and other obstacles caused by the Israelian occupation. For that reason Wa'el repeats single subjects and takes time for specific questions of the young students.

 

2. Special activities:
 

Infants Afternoon
Last Friday Karama invited for the second time little children in the age of 4 to 6 years to spend a nice afternoon in its centre. Beforehand Karama-Kids have prepared and organized this special day. Both teenager and infants played, danced, sang, painted and watched cartoons. Moreover Karama's youth gave the children their first little lesson in writing Arabic and English numbers.
Especially children suffer from the circumstances of the life in a refugee camp. In Deheishe there are neither playgrounds, public kindergardens nor other offers taking special care for them. Since approximately 80% of Deheishe's adults are unemployed, most of the families cannot afford toys or even painting equipment, which usually helps especially little children to improve and aquire skills and learning processes.
For some of these children the "Infants Afternoon" in the Karama centre was the first occasion to play with toy cars, blocks and puzzels. For that reason Karama will repeat this special activity every Friday.

 

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