Today, at the Jenna School, we all enjoyed celebrating the olive harvest season! The children created drawings and paintings, which they hung up on the classroom board. Then they sang songs and performed the *dabke* (traditional folk dance), then sat down to a spread of olive oil, olives, cheese, *za’atar* flatbreads, and slices of tomato and cucumber. It was a joyous occasion!
Enjoy the video and keep the Jenna School in your hearts. It means so much to the children.
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It has been exactly 4 weeks since the Jenna School opened its doors to the camp children and the impact it has already had on their lives is noticeable!
Teaching is focused on establishing a solid foundation in reading, writing (in both Arabic and English) and numeracy skills in advance of starting the national curriculum. Alongside education, vital work is being done to re-establish routine and provide the children with a much needed sense of security to free their minds and allow them to acquire knowledge.
The school is free to the children, of course, so we must appeal to you to meet our running costs. We simply cannot survive without your backing.
Even small amounts soon add up. We need your commitment please.
With gratitude always,
Mohammed
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At Jenna School, teachers continue to instruct students in reading and writing letters, numbers, and words in both Arabic and English. This is part of an initiative to address the disruption to education caused by the war. You can see the children are actively engaged and really enjoying their lessons.
In addition, teachers spend time with the children each day helping them regain their everyday childhood senses and a sense of safety in their lives. This is vital after 3 years of constant battling to survive bombardment, starvation, horrific scenes and displacement.
Please stay tuned and continue supporting the school’s operational costs by donating here.
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Two weeks into the term, the students' proficiency levels are becoming clearer. As expected, the disruption to education caused by the war has produced gaps and delays in basic literacy and numeracy skills which the teachers are planning to tackle via a ‘rescue’ plan that I wholeheartedly support.
Education will focus on establishing a solid foundation in reading, writing (in both Arabic and English) and numeracy skills. Once this has been achieved, the children will be able to grasp subject lessons effectively.
Most importantly, emphasis will be placed on re-establishing routine and providing the children with a much needed sense of security that will free their minds and allow them to acquire knowledge.
We, at the Jenna School, feel confident that this approach will lead to every success and we are excited about the challenges ahead!
Please support our school. It is our children’s future!
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Today I popped into The Jenna School during a lesson in arithmetic. The teacher made learning so much fun and the children were loving it! See for yourselves!
The Jenna School will be following the Ministry of Education's curriculum plan which includes the following prescribed subjects: Arabic, English, Mathematics, National Education, and Science and Life (for third grade and above). We also look forward to adding a weekly Arts and Crafts lesson!
We will be handing out textbooks to the students and officially commencing the curriculum next week!
The opening of the Jenna School is the culmination of months of hard fundraising by the Tokyo Association to Support the Children of Gaza. The school has brought hope for the future, focus and a sense of much needed normalcy at this difficult time.
The next challenge is keeping it running. We must meet the running costs and cost of providing a snack to the pupils every day.
We ask you to donate and fundraise on behalf of the Jenna School within your communities. Please message me directly if you require information, facts and figures.
Stay with us please!
Mohammed
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It has already been a week since the opening of the Jenna School. During this time, we distributed pens, notebooks, and school bags to the students, and the children have gradually begun to settle into their classes and interact with their teachers.
The teachers are working on grounding the children in the fundamentals of reading and writing, teaching them letters and numbers in both Arabic and English, as well as how to form simple sentences by identifying and naming the objects around them.
It is a great start, and one that holds great hope for the children. Thanks again to everyone who has worked tirelessly and donated time and money to make the Jenna School a reality.
We must ensure that the Jenna School succeeds and we turn to you to cover the running costs and a daily snack for the children.
We need you to share in our work and commit by fundraising and donating regularly.
With optimism and gratitude.
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It has already been a week since the opening of the Jenna School. During this time, we distributed pens, notebooks, and school bags to the students, and the children have gradually begun to settle into their classes and interact with their teachers.
The teachers are working on grounding the children in the fundamentals of reading and writing, teaching them letters and numbers in both Arabic and English, as well as how to form simple sentences by identifying and naming the objects around them.
It is a great start, and one that holds great hope for the children. Thanks again to everyone who has worked tirelessly and donated time and money to make the Jenna School a reality.
We must ensure that the Jenna School succeeds and we turn to you to cover the running costs and a daily snack for the children.
We need you to share in our work and commit by fundraising and donating regularly.
With optimism and gratitude.
https://t.co/vdiNxQiEJv
Day 3 of the Jenna School and the children are loving it!
I captured a few minutes of their English and Arabic lessons on video and, as you can see, they are all fully engaged and very enthusiastic! I don’t think they even noticed the drone of the surveillance plane in the background.
Thank God for all of you who strive daily to support us.
Mohammed
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Dear friends, colleagues at the Association for the Children of Gaza, dear donors all:
I write to you today with a heart full of joy and gratitude for what your indefatigable efforts have achieved on behalf of the children of Gaza. Your commitment, enthusiasm, creativity, generosity and love have transformed our dream, the Jenna School project, into reality: the Jenna School will open in September!
To every donor, we extend a heartfelt “thank you” for your generous spirit, for sharing our vision and investing in it. Your trust means more to us than you can imagine. You have become our associates in the Jenna School and we will share our progress with regular updates, photographs and videos of the children and their work!
Thanks to you all, the seed of the Jenna School has been planted and will offer our children an education, a much needed sense of normalcy and, most importantly, hope for a brighter future.
Our ultimate dream, of course, is for permanent peace to bless our lives and I cherish the hope that the Jenna School endures beyond the war, growing and flourishing to become a respected educational institution in our new Gaza.
Thank you.
Mohammed