The start of the orphans team on the orphans teaching project

The first course of the new orphans team has taken place in the orphan care center, which aimed to give the volunteers an idea of the skills that can be used in teaching. The title of the course was “Introduction to learning challenges”.

The opening ceremony began with welcoming the volunteers by the head of the orphans team, then she presented the personnel and goals of the team, and their plan in implementing the program. Then, Ms. Randa Barakat (a lecturer in Jordan University with a masters degree in mental health and counseling) introduced a training course for the volunteers. The introduction included the difference between a child with learning disabilities and a normal child, how to differentiate them and ways of using the senses and the movements to deliver the information to a child with learning disabilities.

The chairman of the orphans care association, Ms. Hyam Shawabkeh, expressed her happiness for the cooperation with the Life Makers Association, and her trust in the services supplied by Life Makers to the community as a whole and especially to those weak groups.
The chairman notified that this would be the first time that an association would work in a planned and organized manner with them, because in the past they only worked with individuals.She added that it was a good decision by the Life Makers Association to chose the orphans group due to their large need of help in the community.

The goal of this project is to raise the academic level of the children in the orphans care association. Forty volunteers were chosen to help twenty-six children evaluated by a learning hardship center, and the volunteers will work on following-up with the students during individual sessions.It is important to mention that “Be my Brother” team has started to work as part of the Life Makers Association in the year 2005, with the goal of strengthening the relationship between the orphans and the community, and giving them technical and professional skills to use in their lives.

Examples of the team’s intentions from working with the orphans, are:Compensation of the love, care, attention, respect and trust that they lost by losing their families, giving them some real goals in life and teaching them the great Islamic values and principles through variable activities that fulfill their needs and free time and teach them a thinking methodology that keeps them always connected to God.

 

Written by : Hassan Al-Dwaikat - Tecnology team

Translated by : Seham Al-Zehairy 

Proofread by :  Dr-Mais Abu Karaki

Members of the group of orphans during the session