The Ministry of Education and Higher Education launched its summer camps for the current year, under the slogan: “We Must Be”, with the support of UNICEF.

These camps, which number 590, target the education directorates in the West Bank governorates, where nearly 100,000 students have joined, distributed over 394 camps; to address the educational loss for grades one through six and 196 camps for the “STEM” program for grades seven through nine.

These camps aim to reduce the impact of educational loss in its academic and social aspects, and to enhance the main skills in the subjects of Arabic, English, mathematics, and science, in addition to developing the skills and abilities of students through implementing purposeful activities.

In this context, Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Amjad Barham said that the launch of these camps came in accordance with an educational vision that falls within the framework of combining educational compensation and entertainment, especially in light of the exce
ptional circumstances witnessed during the past school year and its predecessors, which reflected on the overall possession of educational competencies and skills by students, thanking UNICEF for supporting the camps, and praising the efforts of teachers and school principals, considering that organizing this unprecedented number of camps that have the character of summer schools demonstrates the ministry’s keenness to deal with the educational loss file with the great attention it deserves.

For her part, UNICEF Special Representative in Palestine, Jane Gough, said: What is important about these activities, in addition to bringing joy to children, is that they also aim to launch a campaign to return children to their schools by the new school year. While we emphasize our continued support for our partners in the Palestinian National Authority, we continue to advocate for children’s rights in Palestine, especially in these sensitive times. As is the case anywhere else in the world, access to quality and unint
errupted learning must be our top priority

Source: Maan News Agency