Support Archives - Huda https://huda-charity.org/tag/support/ Charity Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:03:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://huda-charity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/fav-icon-150x150.png Support Archives - Huda https://huda-charity.org/tag/support/ 32 32 Forty kilometers the teacher travels daily https://huda-charity.org/forty-kilometers-the-teacher-travels-daily/ https://huda-charity.org/forty-kilometers-the-teacher-travels-daily/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:50:02 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20936

Forty kilometers the teacher travels daily

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Huda’s teachers in Al-Baireen informal camp https://huda-charity.org/hudas-teachers-in-al-baireen-informal-camp/ https://huda-charity.org/hudas-teachers-in-al-baireen-informal-camp/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:48:21 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20933

Huda’s teachers in Al-Baireen informal camp

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Teranda camp….After the darkness of ignorance…the sun of science rises again https://huda-charity.org/teranda-camp-after-the-darkness-of-ignorancethe-sun-of-science-rises-again/ https://huda-charity.org/teranda-camp-after-the-darkness-of-ignorancethe-sun-of-science-rises-again/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:47:08 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20930

Teranda camp….After the darkness of ignorance…the sun of science rises again

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A seed of hope from the diaspora camps https://huda-charity.org/a-seed-of-hope-from-the-diaspora-camps/ https://huda-charity.org/a-seed-of-hope-from-the-diaspora-camps/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:45:04 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20924

A seed of hope from the diaspora camps

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Illiteracy in Syria and The Efforts to Combat It https://huda-charity.org/illiteracy-in-syria-and-the-efforts-to-combat-it/ https://huda-charity.org/illiteracy-in-syria-and-the-efforts-to-combat-it/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:41:38 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20912

Illiteracy in Syria and The Efforts to Combat It

Suriye savaşının on bir yılı aşkın sürmesi, evlerin, altyapının ve temel hizmetlerin yaygın olarak tahrip edilmesine yol açtı. Suriye toplumu hala etkileriyle karşı karşıya. 6,7 milyondan fazla insan yerinden edilmek zorunda kaldı ve çoğunluğu kuzey Suriye bölgesine göçtü. Bu bölgede 1,9 milyonun üzerinde insan, çoğu planlı olmayan (HNO) geçici yerleşimlerde yaşıyor.

Eğitim, büyük ölçüde etkilenen sorunlardan biri. Bu durum, bütün bir nesli eğitim sürecinin dışında bırakmış ve temel eğitim hakkından mahrum etmiştir. Okur-yazarlık oranı hızla arttı ve Birleşmiş Milletler’in 2021 yılı istatistiklerine göre 2,5 milyonun üzerinde çocuk okul dışı. JENA’ya göre, kuzeybatı Suriye’deki çocukların %44’ü eğitim sürecinin dışında.

Çocukların okula gitmeme veya okulu bırakmalarının nedenleri şunlardır:

  • Süregelen savaş nedeniyle sık sık yer değiştirme.
  • Okulların ikamet yerlerine uzaklığı veya olmaması, çünkü yerinden edilenlerin çoğu uzak kamplarda yaşıyor.
  • Daha önce bombalanmış olmaları nedeniyle okullar güvenli değil.
  • Çocukların yaşı, sınıf için belirlenen yaşın üstüne çıkmış.
  • Birçok öğretmenin göç etmesi ve maaşların düşük olması nedeniyle öğretmen sayısının azlığı.

Dahası, faktörlerden biri de birçok çocuğun ekonomik kriz nedeniyle geçimini sağlamak için çalışmaya zorlanmasıdır. Çocuk işçiliği şehirlerde ve kamplarda yaygınlaştı ve Covid-19’un yayılması da eğitimi olumsuz etkiledi.

Günümüzde Suriye’de 12 yaşında olup alfabeden habersiz, okuma yazma bilmeyen bir çocuk bulmak normaldir. Resmi istatistiklere göre, okur-yazarlık oranı kuzey Suriye şehirlerinde %80’in üzerine çıkmış, kamplardaki çocuklar arasında ise %100’e ulaşmıştır, özellikle kız çocuklar arasında.

Eğitimin gerçeğini ileriye taşımak için çabaları birleştirmek ve mevcut imkanları harekete geçirmek gerekiyordu. Huda Yardım Kurumu, birçok alanda toplam 172 dersliğin bulunduğu ve 4.983 öğrenciye eğitim veren, 172 erkek ve kadın öğretmenin gözetiminde temel Arapça, aritmetik ve bazı sosyal davranışların öğretildiği ve erdemli değerlerin Suriye toplumuna aşılandığı okuryazarlık kursları ve mobil eğitim çadırı projeleri aracılığıyla bu alanda adım atmayı başlattı. Eğitim, Suriye’nin çocukları için parlak bir gelecek inşa etmenin umudu olmaya devam ediyor.

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Education is available to all ages and groups https://huda-charity.org/education-is-available-to-all-ages-and-groups/ https://huda-charity.org/education-is-available-to-all-ages-and-groups/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:39:56 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20906

Education is available to all ages and groups

In a remote village in northern Syria, we found the child Abd al-Salam and talked with him about his condition, his livelihood, and his family. We were surprised by an interesting conversation that only shocked us, that we are in front of a child who is not more than twelve years old who does the work of men. He wakes up early and prepares his equipment to go out to graze sheep and go on other days to harvest wheat and return at the end of the day exhausted and tired.

We asked him about his school

 but he ignored the question and went on to talk about the importance of work to help his family to earn a living. His family living status is very difficult because of repeated displacement, which has caused them to lose their property and money. The effects of aging were clear on his parents, who were unable to support the family for which Abd al-Salam became responsible to secure incomes.

After our insist on asking, Abd al-Salam replied that he did not have the opportunity to complete his education, as he was happy to enter the school at the age of six, but this joy did not complete for several days when he had to leave it to help his family.  İt was a great shock that Abd al-Salam could not read or write at his age.

We took the hand of Abd al-Salam and told his parents that Huda Charity had opened literacy classes in his village, in which it received children who wanted to learn to read and write at times that matched their working hours.

Here is Abd al-Salam today, despite the burns left by the strong sun on his beautiful skin. He comes every day with determination and passion to learn, feeling words and letters to open a new chapter in his life with titled no illiteracy after today.

It is noteworthy that the Humanitarian Development Aid  Organization -HUDA  has launched three previous literacy programs, the like of which has not been witnessed in the region by a different system, which is the mobile teacher who roams villages and towns in search of students who dropped schools or who do not have a school to raise their educational level and begin the journey of knowledge and light.

 

 

 
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The conclusion of the fourth session of the literacy program https://huda-charity.org/the-conclusion-of-the-fourth-session-of-the-literacy-program/ https://huda-charity.org/the-conclusion-of-the-fourth-session-of-the-literacy-program/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:37:58 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20900

The conclusion of the fourth session of the literacy program

Several months passed in northern Syria, which made a big difference in the lives of many residents. Where children often went through a new experience for the first time, and they lived days filled with enthusiasm and suspense, which resulted in the lighting of many tents and houses that have been drowned in the darkness of ignorance and the unknown for many years.

By the end of the ninth month, there were more than 4,900 Syrian children shining with light and eager to reach the final day of the fourth educational course for literacy that is being held by the Humanitarian Development Aid Org. (Huda) in northern Syria, starting from Idlib to the areas of Raqqa. This course began in April 2022. It lasted for 6 months.

During it, Huda Charity established 172 classrooms in the regions of Idlib, Aleppo and Raqqa, supervised by teachers who were carefully selected based on their experience in illiteracy and dealing with displaced communities and children who drop out of education because of the special circumstances they are going through.

During this interesting journey, the students acquired a lot of knowledge and sciences derived from Huda’s educational curriculum, which includes all the basics of literacy, starting with the primary goal of learning the Arabic language to read and write until they became able to read and write everything they saw or came to their mind, including the Holy Quran, they also learned basic arithmetic operations to help them conduct their daily transactions easily. The curriculum also considers aspects of life skills and the promotion of values in the lives of children derived from the stories and tales of the Syrian culture.

What distinguishes Huda Charity programs is the high rate of female participations, as the percentage of female students reached 35.6% of the total participating students, and we seek to increase the attraction of girls during the upcoming sessions.

At the end of the sixth month of the training course, the final exams were conducted in reading, writing, and arithmetic operations, and it was announced that the students had overcome and conquered illiteracy, and started a new stage in their lives by joining schools close to the housing area, where the supervisors worked in Huda Charity to communicate and coordinate with the school administration to enroll students in the classes that appropriate to their academic age.

It is worth noting that the Syrian crisis left millions of children out of the educational process because of repeated displacement and the lack of schools and teachers, and because of the lack of funding provided to the education sector, which impedes its improvement.

 

 

However, this experience had a different and distinct taste, along with exciting aspects that I would not have experienced had I not joined the Huda Charitable Organization as a literacy teacher. Here, I traverse distances to reach my educational class, which is a tent where children, who have never set foot in a school, perhaps only knowing its name without ever visiting or imagining it, gather. They arrived at the educational tent, arranged themselves, eagerly anticipating learning and knowledge. How can I describe this feeling to you?

Success here has two facets. Firstly, exerting effort within the possible limits despite limited resources, and on the level of utilizing skills to deal with a group of children unlike any we have encountered before. They have not experienced school, their ages vary, and many of them suffer from clear psychological effects. Here lies the other aspect of success: discovering the skills and potentials God has blessed you with, skills and potentials you would not have known about if it weren’t for your work in the literacy program.

Surprisingly, you gain new experience here. Even though in your teaching journey you are accustomed to easily handling questions, here is a new path and a rich experience. Lectures and guidance from the supervisors at the Huda literacy program enriched my experience and honed my skills. I sensed success through a child who didn’t know how to draw the letter ‘Alif’ or hold a pen, but now writes and reads the Quran fluently.”

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A blind student… Learns with imagination https://huda-charity.org/the-pain-of-ibrahim-between-residence-and-departure/ https://huda-charity.org/the-pain-of-ibrahim-between-residence-and-departure/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:27:56 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20877

A blind student… Learns with imagination

Huda Charity Classes used to receive children in every new session, during which the students go through the experience of learning, follow-up, and persistence, during which they go through various obstacles that they overcome with their persistence and with the support of their teachers who are keen to provide education as a basic right of the child and provide him with psychological support directly and collectively to help him overcome the difficulties.

There were children with physical harm that led to a deformity or disability in the foot or hand, and some of them were of a different age than their peers in the class, but this time the strange case was a blind child insisting on learning, so who is she and what does she want?

She walks in perpetual darkness, and if the sun were in the middle of the sky and radiated as far as possible, our child would not see the light with those weak eyes, but two and a half months ago she saw the light of HUDA with her beautiful heart.

Salwa, the child who lost her sight, did not stop from joining the literacy classes in the fifth program, so she was the first to arrive in the classes of Al-Huda, accompanied by her friend Maryam, who took it upon herself to deliver her to the class every day and then bring her home. Salwa is like other Syrian birds that dream of growing up and fly towards their goals, but today her dream is to see the letters of her name on the board, as she hears them every day from her teacher, Mr. Youssef, who does not skimp on giving her anything and who helps her imagine how to write the name as a result of the current lack of experience using the Braille language.

Mr. Youssef Abdel Latif says that the possibility of restoring Salwa’s sight exists. She has medical analysis to prove that, but an operation for her eyes is somehow costlyand her family is poor and cannot pay the amount allocated for her operation. Mr. Abdul Latif confirmed that Salwa is one of the distinguished students in the class, and what makes him cry the most is when she asks him how the letter S, the first letter of her name, looks like, but he cannot answer her. Salwa lives in the village of Al-Rawiya, about 30 kilometers east of the city of Ras Al-Ain, and it is a simple village whose people work in Livestock raising and agriculture, and the region in general suffers from illiteracy because of extreme poverty and the lack of interest of many people in education because of the high costs for them or the distance of schools from their homes.  Huda Charity was able to reach that village and open classes of the fifth literacy program in the 10th month of 2022, during which stationery was provided and teachers were provided to follow up on the children.

Huda Charity is still striving hard to facilitate access to education as a basic right of the child stipulated in international laws, as well as to achieve psychological well-being for children in northwestern Syria, who have been deprived of their childhood by the war.

 

 
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Teacher’s Experience in Huda Classes https://huda-charity.org/teachers-experience-in-huda-classes/ https://huda-charity.org/teachers-experience-in-huda-classes/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:24:45 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/?p=20869

Teacher’s Experience in Huda Classes

Education is the foundation of nations’ progress and development. Wherever you look in the course of nations, knowledge is an indispensable basis. Hence, this profession has been dear to my heart since the beginning of my journey in life. How could it not be, when you see the tangible impact of success unfolding before your eyes, step by step, day by day? Above all, there is the ultimate goal of pleasing Almighty God.

However, this experience had a different and distinct taste, along with exciting aspects that I would not have experienced had I not joined the Huda Charitable Organization as a literacy teacher. Here, I traverse distances to reach my educational class, which is a tent where children, who have never set foot in a school, perhaps only knowing its name without ever visiting or imagining it, gather. They arrived at the educational tent, arranged themselves, eagerly anticipating learning and knowledge. How can I describe this feeling to you?

Success here has two facets. Firstly, exerting effort within the possible limits despite limited resources, and on the level of utilizing skills to deal with a group of children unlike any we have encountered before. They have not experienced school, their ages vary, and many of them suffer from clear psychological effects. Here lies the other aspect of success: discovering the skills and potentials God has blessed you with, skills and potentials you would not have known about if it weren’t for your work in the literacy program.

Surprisingly, you gain new experience here. Even though in your teaching journey you are accustomed to easily handling questions, here is a new path and a rich experience. Lectures and guidance from the supervisors at the Huda literacy program enriched my experience and honed my skills. I sensed success through a child who didn’t know how to draw the letter ‘Alif’ or hold a pen, but now writes and reads the Quran fluently.”

I witnessed success through an invitation from a mother, as her child read some words and sent them to me via WhatsApp. A father’s joy and gratitude, as his son, who has now learned to read and write, thanked me on his behalf.

I witnessed success through a WhatsApp message after recording a video of a child reciting a prophetic saying and sending it to his family.

Success is in rescuing a child deprived of education, confined to the darkness of ignorance, and opening for them a window of radiant light.

I lived a moment of paradise in the innocent gaze of a child, rejoicing as he read a line, wrote a sentence, or memorized a verse.

I experienced moments of bliss when children chant a poem, expressing love for the Prophet, responding to the call, ‘O mother, if only we had knowledge.’

I felt the weight, the shortcomings towards our children, our religion, and our society if we remain in deep ignorance and utter darkness without taking action.

The story of success is to persist sincerely, patiently, and with renewal in what we have begun.

There are countless success stories, but the first of them is to endure and keep enduring as long as we live.

Thanks, endless thanks, to those who carry the concerns of the nation, tirelessly supporting educational and moral work for this generation deprived of its basic rights.

In conclusion, we beseech the generous God to guide us, accept our efforts, and bless us with a fruitful harvest from the seeds we sow, by His will. He is the Guardian and the Capable, and our last prayer is that all praise is due to God, Lord of all the worlds.

 

 
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Growth and Knowledge https://huda-charity.org/growth-and-knowledge/ https://huda-charity.org/growth-and-knowledge/#respond Sat, 09 Sep 2023 05:16:00 +0000 https://huda-charity.org/discussing-the-importantce-of-vaccines-copy/

Growth and Knowledge

Among the thousands of students who joined the Huda Educational Program in its fifth cycle, you are bound to find all forms of suffering, each with its degrees. This is in a country ravaged by relentless war for years. Despite a relative stabilization in the conditions within the camps and cities of northern Syria, we are still reaping the bitter fruits of war on the health of our children.

The joy of Mohammed’s family upon seeing him grow was incomplete. The treacherous aircrafts assassinated a part of this joy by bombing their house when he was not even three years old. This incident caused him problems that concealed the smiles from his parents. He hasn’t been growing like other children, both physically and behaviorally. His condition doesn’t align with a child at his tender age who should be playing, having fun, and learning new things. Moreover, the child has been refusing to attend school, despite strong encouragement from his parents.

This time, the Huda Educational convoy reached the area where young Mohammed resides. The Huda team met Mohammed and his parents, who shared that Mohammed quickly forgets and cannot retain the lessons or what they teach him. They couldn’t rely on him due to his forgetfulness, a fact reiterated by his grandmother.

A conversation was held between the team, Mohammed himself, and his family, persuading him to join Huda’s classes. When he agreed, a genuine and sweet smile adorned his face, accompanied by a nod. His grandfather shouted with joy and excitement at this historic decision.

Contrary to his family’s expectations, Mohammed joined the class and continued to attend without boredom, complaints, or interruptions, integrating with his new friends and his teacher. The teacher, trained in literacy teacher qualification program, paid special attention to Mohammed, utilizing his experience and skills gained during the training on dealing with children with special needs.

Mohammed’s performance improved, showcasing a distinctive and beautiful handwriting compared to his peers. Despite academic challenges, he could read and write.

At the end of the educational program, Mohammed had become capable of writing and reading with a beautiful handwriting that set him apart from his peers. However, his academic level remained below the average of his friends, prompting the Huda educational team to advise and guide his family to seek a diagnosis and complete his treatment.

As the new cycle began, Mohammed’s grandfather requested to enroll him again in the educational class, as he refused to go to the regular school. He found in Huda’s classes the blend of knowledge, purposeful entertainment, and good role models.”

 

 
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