Alnuhud: "A Way to Success"
Alnuhud: "A Way to Success"
The Pre-Academic Program, "A Way to Success": A three-year program, running since 1998 and includes about 100 high-school Bedouin girls with the potential to excel. The program improves their chances to be accepted to the academy and runs once a week, for 5 hours. Components:
- Academic: Mathematics, English, Hebrew, computers and critical thinking.
- Implementation: classes are held at BGU, which reduce the anxiety and alienation from the academy.
- Socio-Cultural: enrichment program, empowerment, awareness and consciousness, strengthening and consolidation of leadership. Once every 3 weeks.
- Emotional-Genderal: senior girls group dynamics, dealing with life stories, conflicts, challenges and growth.
- Transportation and chaperoning: for girls only, enabling the participation of girls from traditional families and unrecognized villages.
- Lobbing: help and consultation throughout the admission process for academic institutes.
IMPLEMENTORS
Alnuhud: The Association for the Promotion of Bedouin Women's Education in the Negev
Alnuhud: The Association for the Promotion of Bedouin Women's Education in the Negev is an NGO, established in 1997 by Arabs, Bedouin-Arabs and Jews from the south region of Israel, the Negev. Its mission is to promote general and higher education among Arab-Bedouin women. Promoting Bedouin women through education and through integration within the academic world is a successful tool for advancement of Bedouin women in the Israeli society and for improving their status within the community. ...