Our projects
Our Dreams Thrive
We educate displaced children and girls in Yemen with a long-term aim: to raise future leaders in voluntary and humanitarian work. We want to tell the world about Yemen’s issues and to draw attention to Yemen’s renewal after the war.
This will help raise the level of education and development, and help change society for the better, in its media and its economy.
Run by Nada Foundation to protect children’s rights in Yemen, under the slogan #OurDreamsThrive.
The project educates displaced girls living in camps in Yemen after fleeing devastating wars.
Every Yemeni girl dreams of completing her education, putting it to use afterwards, and feeling its value from her first years at school.
Main idea
We find new ways to teach English to displaced children, open temporary classes, and give work to teachers whose salaries have been cut off for 3 years.
Who it is for
We work for future generations who dream of peace, coexistence and love. Our goal is to reach young people aged 13 to 18 and prepare them to enrol in international universities and to work with international curricula.
We give priority to children in the camps who left their schools and homes in search of safety, and to girls who have suffered injustice.
We aim to reach 90% of all the children we target.
In the first phase, we aim to support 10,000 children from different governorates of Yemen until they complete university.
Objectives
- To find other routes to quality education that help children in the short and medium term, and to make sure they keep learning.
- To give temporary work to teachers whose salaries were cut off 3 years ago.
- To build knowledge in future generations, especially girls, and open regional and international opportunities for them to go on to university, on campus or from home, at internationally recognised universities that teach remotely. This takes into account the circumstances in which each girl has grown up.
- To help future generations benefit from work opportunities on the internet. This reduces unemployment among girls in Yemen and keeps them from being drawn, in good faith, into illegal activities.
- To help displaced children develop their skills and personal abilities, so that they become the core of future global leaders in community work, politics, the press and other fields, and bring change to Yemen’s culture, economy and media. They can also be the generous minds and hands that ease Yemen’s suffering and find solutions at the root of its problems and tragedies.
Why it matters
Education in Yemen has long been, and still is, at its worst. It has not achieved real, positive results, and it has not kept up with the fast progress of science or brought it to those who want to learn. This has hurt the skills of Yemen’s young generation, which no longer meet the needs of employers, especially in mastering international languages.
Languages connect peoples and the world. Yet Yemen struggles to show the world its people’s suffering and what is happening there. It lacks journalists, activists and political leaders who can speak to the world in its own languages, especially in the media and in community work. This cuts Yemen off from the world. International journalists cannot turn their cameras and pens to Yemen because they cannot find a common language with Yemenis, so they rely on material made by people far from the suffering.
That is why we focus on teaching languages to future generations. Languages are the first way to share experience and knowledge, to rebuild the homeland, to make peace and to live alongside the world.
How the project works
The project runs in two phases.
Phase 1 (3 months): the model
We provide a temporary classroom for two classes close to where displaced families live, with male or female teachers of English. The authorities responsible for the camps supervise the classes directly, with the consent of each child’s guardian, within Yemen’s system and law. The classes are run with help from human rights organisations working on the ground or human rights activists, under the supervision of state security, to keep girls safe from exploitation.
Phase 2 (5 years): online learning
Girls who excel in class and make great progress in the language will be taught and followed up over five years. They will be enrolled in internationally recognised schools that teach remotely, so that each girl can finish her education at home, without the burden of travel or time away from her family. This respects the social reality.
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