Alnuhud: The Association for the Promotion of Bedouin Women'...

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.

Every year, Alnuhud is working among 1,000 Bedouin girls, boys and women. They activate programs in Beer-Sheva and in Bedouin villages, based on a humanistic, systematic approach: Support cycles, with emphasis on the educational-academic area, social-economic, cultural, general and personal identity.

Alnuhud was founded as a response for the dismal of the education situation in the Bedouin community: the highest dropout rates in 11th-12th grades; only 26% of high school graduates are entitled for a "Bagrut" (matriculation) diploma (51% among Jews); 12% only from them are diplomas which reach academic acceptance standards. (45% among Jews); These gaps are causing and opening other social gaps, for example in the level of income, employment, health and welfare. For Bedouin women, who suffer from double, sometimes even triple discrimination, the situation is even worse. Only 5% have academic education. And academic education for a Bedouin woman is almost the only channel through which she can changeher status and get out of these cycles of injustice and inequality.

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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 o ...
Education, Negev Bedouin, Women, elementary and high school, pre-academic education, the Negev
Alnuhud: The Mentorship-Community Awareness Program
The Mentorship-Community Awareness Program: Since 1998, works among about 40 Bedouin women students per year, to help them economically and socially, to prevent dropouts and to serve as a "home". The students are a part of community work pa ...
Education, Negev Bedouin, Women, elementary and high school, pre-academic education, the Negev
Alnuhud: The Youth Program
The Youth Program for raising girl's awareness to high education: is active since 2004, among Bedouin middle school girls from Hura and Tel-Sheva villages. Its goals are to increase the understanding about the importance of education; to motivate ...
Education, Negev Bedouin, Women, elementary and high school, pre-academic education, the Negev