Program Summary

Camp Discovery provides an enriching, happy summer camp experience for mainly at-risk youth from refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank. Piloted in 2007, it has been expanded in size and duration in the following summers, reaching more than 1,650 children ages 8-14 within its first four years. Camp activities focus on English language training in a fun-filled, learner-centered environment, which is carried over and applied in complementary modules focused on artistic expression and scientific discovery, along with community service and team-building activities, as well as leadership development opportunities. The summer camps are funded by the U.S.

Program Summary

The HSBC Financial and Entrepreneurship Awareness (FEA) Program was designed to provide young Arab women the opportunity to develop skills that will help them realize their career aspirations in business and finance. Funded by international banking giant HSBC and administered by AMIDEAST in partnership with Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, the program addressed the need among young Arab women to acquire skills that enhance their employability, thereby meeting a vitally important goal in a region with extremely high rates of unemployment among women. 

Main Goals

• Support the career goals of young Arab women seeking careers in finance and entrepreneurship

• Provide short-term skills training in business and entrepreneurship basics that complement participants’ university-level studies, with a focus on activities that provide hands-on exposure to the realities of business, finance, and entrepreneurship activities

• Build the business, leadership, and financial management skills of young women to prepare them to be business-owners and contribute to broader economic gains for the region

برنامج تدريبي ممول من قبل مكتب الوزيرة لقضايا النساء العالمية التابع لوزارة الخارجية الأميركية.

يقوم حالياً مكتب الوزيرة لمسائل النساء العالمية التابع لوزارة الخارجية الأميركية بقبول طلبات الترشيح للنساء العراقيات القياديات المؤهلات والعاملات في مجالي القانون والمجتمع المدني للمشاركة في برنامج تدريبي مصمم لتوسيع الفرص للنساء في المجتمع العراقي. سيتم البرنامج في الولايات المتحدة باللغة الإنكليزية مع ترجمة متزامنة إلى العربية ويستمر لمدة اسبوعين.

الجمهور المستهدف

إن هذا البرنامج مصمم لدعم النساء العراقيات العاملات في القانون أو قطاع المجتمع المدني في التعامل مع المسائل المتعلقة بالعنف على أساس الجنس.

أهداف البرنامج

يهدف هذا البرنامج إلى:

1.   خلق فرصة للمحترفات العراقيات في القانون والمجتمع المدني لتشكيل شبكات دائمة تدعم جهودهن بعد استكمال البرنامج.
2.   بناء تحالفات وعلاقات بين المشتركات في البرنامج ونظيراتهن الأميركيات اللواتي سيتفاعلن معهن، مما سيخدمهن في المستقبل.
3.   توفير مهارات عملية يمكن ان تستخدمها المشاركات في البرنامج في عملهن بعد استكمال البرنامج.

Washington, DC, November 4, 2010 —The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has awarded AMIDEAST a $225,000 grant that will enable it to support Egypt’s largest and most prestigious public university, Cairo University, as it seeks to strengthen its capacity to host U.S. study abroad students.

English language classes will be offered by AMIDEAST through a sub-grant from the USAID funded, EDC administered Ruwwad youth development program.  Classes will be held at Youth Development Resource Center (YDRC) facilities in Jabal Annar Club in Nablus, Al Bireh Youth Foundaton in Al Bireh, and Beit Al-Tifel Club in Hebron.  The training will include classroom sessions and online components.  Students who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate.  While the training sessions do not cost anything, the cost of books and transportation will be the responsibility of the students.

All applicants will be required to sit for an English language placement test as part of the selection and placement process for the training program.

English language training will take place over a 15 week term and begin during the middle of January, 2011.  Classes will take place three times per week, and last for two hours each.   Students will complete a total of 90 hours of classroom training and 70 hours of online lessons by the end of the program.

Consult your high school for information about the YES TOWNHALL MEETING to be held in November

 The Pyramids.  Luxor and Karnak Temples.  Irrigated agriculture.  Water wheels.  Papyrus boats that sailed the oceans.  The Nile Barrages.  Suez Canal.  Aswan High Dam.  Preservation of Abu Simbel.  El-Salaam Water Project. From ancient times to the present, many of the world’s most impressive engineering feats have occurred in one country – Egypt. 
 

 Academics

The History of Engineering is a 3-credit course offered jointly by AMIDEAST Education Abroad Programs in the Arab World and the Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University. Topics addressed during the course range from ancient engineering feats such as the temples and monuments of ancient Egypt to ancient and modern water resource management and irrigation. Preservation and restoration of historic sites, including ancient monuments, mosques, churches and synagogues will also be covered.  These topics are addressed through lectures, discussions and numerous site visits and excursions. 

Excursions

Starting November 20, 2010, AMIDEAST Dokki Branch will be open the second and third Saturday of each month

Saturday Working Hours: from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm 

- Saturday November 20,  2010

- Saturday December 11, 2010

- Saturday December 18, 2010

- Saturday January 8, 2011

- Saturday January 15, 2011

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DynEd is ideal for English language learners who:

·         have the ability and motivation to study independently

·         need to improve their knowledge of English grammar, listening and speaking skills