In today’s Jerusalem reality, to get things done – at the Municipality, at the water, telephone or electric companies – you need to know Hebrew.
Learning Hebrew as a tool for communication
Last year, as part of MiniActive’s efforts to provide professional development to its participants, and in order to improve the women’s effectiveness, they began participating in weekly Hebrew courses, offered by Speaking Hebrew, which takes place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Last year 150 women and teenagers took part. This year, over 200 studied Hebrew from MiniActive!
In class
Last week, they held a year-end party for 300 participants and their families, volunteer teachers, and everyone involved in the program.
Graduation ceremony at Hebrew University
There were congratulatory speeches.
MiniActive Director, Intisar, speaking at graduation
Graduation certificates were distributed.
Very proud of their accomplishments
And the women shared the fantastic food that they’d prepared for the party.
Fitting finale to a fantastic year
The women told of how fun it was to learn in the classes – not the standard frontal lessons, but also games and other interactive methods.
The first of many steps to Hebrew fluency
See you next year!
Here’s the Facebook post (in Arabic):
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for its ongoing support for this project.
