Adopt a School Project: Sawfar in Lebanon

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Rural Sawfar is in the Mt. Druze area of Lebanon. This school is only a few hundred yards from a site that was subject to severe bombing in 2006 and most of these children have known nothing but fear and insecurity for the past three years. Children of Sawfar Official Public School are of mixed religious and political persuasion and know little of why their small, peaceful community is so strategically important. They have no direct link to the outside world in order for them to obtain the information they need to learn. The students who attend “public” school do so because their parents cannot afford to send them to the better-equipped private schools. Students take English and science and math are taught in English. At present there are few textbooks and no internet access for teachers (all but one of whom are locally trained women). Classrooms are generally bare except for benches and desks. The students do not have a library and most do not have the luxury of having non-classroom books to read and learn about the rest of the world. The need to heat the school to a minimum level (the children wear coats in class during winter) uses up the small school budge in this mountain area.

Zonta Club of Hilo shall...

...promote the objectives of Zonta International in our local community...

...globally advance the status of women by providing meaningful service projects...

...raise awareness and visibility of Zonta.

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