The dingy basement room was constructed in 1972 with miserable ventilation and light. Worn-out, outdated computers are stacked in a monotonous line alongside the moldy crumbling walls. This was the room in Kufur Thulth Secondary Girls School, located southeast of Qalqilya, where 300 high school girls used to squeeze in together to learn about computers. "Seeing is believing," said the headmistress Ayda Mwasi as she tried to describe the miserable condition of the old computer lab.

ANERA's installation of a new computer lab in a West Bank school wows teachers and  students alike! Read more

Special training sessions for preschool teachers and administrators from four selected preschools have opened a window onto new and effective techniques for early childhood care and education.Participants were enthusiastic about putting into practice what they had learned.  Before the ANERA training, Mayse Abd El Haq says she was often at loss about assigning activities to 25 children and keeping control of the class.

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About ANERA:

For more than 40 years, ANERA has been a leading provider of development, health, education and employment programs to Palestinian communities and impoverished families throughout the Middle East.  In FY 2009, the relief and development agency delivered more than $50 million of programs to the people of the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan.