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1600 female graduates of USPEAK
25-9-2019
USPEAK and the US Embassy in Lebanon held a ceremony yesterday for the graduation of female students who participated in the ‘Teach Women English’ program as well as the 11th anniversary of the said program. The event which took place at the Palace of Conventions, Dbayeh, saw the presence of the US Embassy cultural affairs officer, Raisa Dukas, and the director of the program, Rawan Yaghi. Dukas in her address said learning the English language helps in the empowerment of women all over Lebanon and in breaking barriers to their integration and participation in all areas of social, cultural and political life. Similarly, Yaghi, said last year graduates celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of Independence in Rashaya Fort and contributed to increasing the number of applicants to reach 1600 female students. “We started with 1000 applications. Around 40 women have become productive within entrepreneurship and other businesses,” she said. The program has helped women master the language, teach their children and interact with them and with the community and with their relatives abroad in English, Yaghi maintained. (NNA, September 24, 2019)
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