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West Bank Alumna Exemplifies Spirit of
Volunteerism
Maha shares a book with children
at a local school |
West
Bank alumna Maha Thaher '05 has been active in her school
in creating and developing extracurricular activities to benefit
both her school and community.
One of the experiences that I gained from
my exchange year in the United States is the idea of school
clubs. As I was a member of the French club in my U.S. high
school I decided that I should have at least something similar
at my home school in my country. So, when our history teacher
asked who wanted to be a member of the social club I was the
first to say, "me!" and since then other members
and I have been making a great effort in developing extra
curricular activities related to social studies.
Our special achievement is that now we
have a permanent board near the school's main entrance, where
we post news and articles about different subjects and current
issues in Palestine and the whole world so that all the students
at school can see and read it. We've noticed that the students
actually are interested to read what's been posted, so we
decided to do more. We asked students to put a mark on the
articles they prefer and then from these topics they collect
information about the subject and discuss it in one of the
social studies classes. Our teacher developed a new project
for our class focusing on international law after we found
this was a topic that interested everyone from this system
of highlighting current events.
Maha is also involved in a number of activities
through the Cultural Center for Child Development.
I am on the student core group at the
Cultural Center for Child Development. The main responsibilities
and tasks of the core group are to organize and participate
in community service activities, organize and facilitate workshops
for other new participants in the center about many developmental
youth issues, and participate in the Dabkeh (traditional Palestinian
dance) and theater team.
As a member of both the Dabkeh dancing
group and the theater group, I participated in a performance
organized by the center one evening during Ramadan. At that
performance some community organizations were invited as
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