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3148 W. 63rd St. Chicago, IL 60629
773-436-6060
773-436-6460
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| Staff |
Youth Organizing Program Coordinator
Halima Bahri
Youth Services
Program Coordinator
Melissa Lukasick
Finance Assistant
Rania Shkairat
Family Empowerment Program Coordinator
Nina Shoman-Dajani
Family Literacy Project Coordinator
AmeriCorps Members
Samar Damra
Ramah Kudaimi
Besan Quran
Shorook Quran
Fatmah Tabally |
| Board |
Louise Cainkar-Mashrah
Treasurer
Ali Abunimah
Omar Bishtawi
Laila Farah
Ahlam Jbara
Mona Khalidi
Souzan Naser
Ora Schub
Lamees Talhami | |
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Upcoming Events
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Free Lunch and T-Shirts!
Join the AAAN for the 5th Annual
National Arab-American Service Day
8:30am -1:30pm
Saturday, May 16
Washington Park
5900 South Cottage Grove Ave
Chicago, IL
You must sign up by 3:00 pm Friday, May 15!
Use this form to sign up and visit our website to download a registration form.
We will be improving the nature areas of Washington Park and workday activities will include invasive species removal, pruning trees and shrubs, trail maintenance, trash pick-up and planting native species. Contact Ramah Kudaimi for more information.
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Arabic-English Story Time and Activity
5:00-5:30 pm
Thursday, May 21
Green Hills Public Library
8611 West 103rd Street
Palos Hills, IL
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AAAN Updates
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More than 20 children attended the AAAN Family Literacy Project story time at the Green Hills Public Library on April 23.
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On April 30 the Arab Women's Committee invited representatives from Standard bank to discuss the importance of financial literacy and education.
The representatives answered questions about the options available for opening accounts and encouraged the participants to save money in a bank.
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The After School Program took its participants on two field trips during the month of April. They visited the campus of the University of Chicago with the Muslims Students Association.
 And on May 4, the Science on the Go bus, a hands-on learning lab, visited the AAAN.
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Steps to Improve Your Child's Behavior |
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AAAN sponsors parenting skills workshop
"We are going to address all the little things because it is very important for our kids," Lamees Talhami told a group of 20 women attending a parenting skills workshop organized by the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) at the Green Hills Public Library. The panel of speakers included Lamees, a social worker and member of the AAAN Board of Directors, Rania Shkairat, the AAAN Family Empowerment Program Coordinator and Lina Zayed, a high school public school teacher.
Here are 15 steps you can take to improve your child's behavior:
1. Help your children with their homework whether it is sitting down with them and making sure they complete all their assignments or getting them a tutor.
2. Read with your kids daily and when they are older, have them read to you.
3. Communicate with your children's teachers. If language is a barrier, then request the school provide a translator. It is the duty of the school to fulfill your request.
4. Children must get 10 hours of sleep per night.
5. Have your children learn healthy eating habits at a young age. Make them eat breakfast and cut down on their sugar intake.
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Never Silent Cafe |
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| Youth work to raise funds for trip
 "Tariq, I see pain in the colors of my flag, black, the color of anger, the anger of that night, that night I saw for the first time her tears, my mother's tears running down her face, because of him, because she heard he died, her son had died, Tariq had died," Aysha Alakhras, 17, shouts to an audience of more than 50. "While he was protecting us, protecting our home, protecting his friend, but he couldn't protect himself from them. He couldn't protect himself from them because he didn't have guns like them. He didn't have more than his hands and his hands couldn't protect him. They shot him in the heart and his sweet red blood irrigated our beautiful, green Palestine."
Aysha is one of more than 20 performers who took to the stage at the Never Silent Café put on by the youth of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) on May 2. The night featured break dancers, beat boxers, short film screenings, spoken word performances in English and Arabic and a live band.
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 The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, our strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach and forging productive relationships with other communities. | |
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