Our Dreams Thrive

Main aim of the programme

The main idea of the project is to help Yemen develop by improving its connection and communication with the rest of the world. By setting up alternative schools and classes that teach English, the project tackles the lack of education and job preparation for young people growing up in camps for internally displaced people. It also creates jobs for teachers.

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Who it is for

Our Dreams Thrive serves future generations of Yemenis who dream of peace and unity. It helps girls aged 13 to 18 by preparing them to enrol and succeed in international universities. We give priority to children who have been forced to flee their homes and schools, and to girls who have suffered domestic violence, early marriage and other human rights abuses.

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Nada Foundation is investing in the generation that will rebuild Yemen when the civil war ends. Its Our Dreams Thrive project reaches out to girls displaced by the country’s devastating violence and conflict. Educating girls protects their human rights and changes traditional attitudes to early marriage. Education builds confidence and dignity, and it raises girls’ hopes of achieving their dreams. That is why education is the basis for social change and economic growth in Yemen. Preparing future leaders, even while the fighting goes on, is the first step towards long-term stability and economic development in the region.

Under the hashtag Our Dreams Thrive, Nada Foundation is now ready to reach 10,000 girls in camps for internally displaced people across all of Yemen’s governorates. Its specific aim is to teach the girls to speak and write English. This skill will build a bridge between Yemen and the rest of the world, so that information can pass freely across borders and support scientific and technological progress. It is also a way to raise the leaders in media and humanitarian work that Yemen will need to recover when the long conflict that has torn its social fabric finally ends.

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Beneficiaries

380 Sana'a Governorate
120 Hajjah Governorate
250 Al-Dhale' Governorate
160 Al-Hudaydah Governorate

Why it matters

Education in Yemen has been, and still is, inadequate. It fails to teach and prepare students, and it has not kept up with scientific progress in the world. Young people today lack the skills that employers need.

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We help you open a school in your village

Let us teach your children and your neighbours for free

Give us your trust and we give your children knowledge
Let us complete what you have started, and teach as many students as possible the most important subjects, the ones that connect them to the future and to a better life
All you do is coordinate with the teachers
Give us the addresses and details of the teachers in your town or village, so that we can contact them, arrange the training and collect the data of the students who will benefit
Open a school in your town
We supervise and follow up the work, provide the curriculum, send you full reports and keep you informed of every development
Leave your first mark on them
To protect children from backwardness and ignorance caused by the failure of school education, we must all carry out our responsibility towards them
Building the nation needs thinking minds
Let us help the coming generations build a bright future and a life of dignity, and build thinking, enlightened minds
Fill your children's free time with learning
Time is gold: if you do not keep it, it is gone. So let your children feel its worth, and pave the way to success for them

How we work

A nation without education will not rise

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We open wide horizons for their future

We train and teach in a way that fits their ambitions and helps them reach their dreams, so that they know the world and its opportunities and become makers of glory

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We carry your first steps to glory

We take care of the follow-up, set the curriculum and the way of training and teaching, send you the first reports, collect the data and provide all logistical support

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Coordinate with the teachers in your town

Just coordinate with teachers who live near your children and neighbours to open classes that teach them English as a first stage. Give us their details, and we will complete what you have started

We will not expose our children's lives to harsh, painful conditions and senseless wars while we stand by and watch. We must rise and fight by every means to uphold human values and save our children from these wars, which destroy the country and its people