‘Women’s Academy’ moves to Old Serail quarter of Tripoli

A new center for the ‘Women’s Academy’ at the Safadi Foundation was inaugurated last Friday in the Old Serail quarter of Tripoli, in the presence of Sally Jreij, Miss Lebanon 2014. Over 100 women from the capital of the North partook in the opening which comes after the success of the pilot center in Dahr Al Mughr which contributed to the empowerment of more than 500 children and women each year, during the past 8 years. To this effect, the director of the Women’s Academy Center, Marwa Malqi noted that the opening of new premises in a different area aimed at replicating the successful Dahr Al Mughr experience in a new environment. Likewise, director of the Safadi Foundation Social Development Sector, Samar Boulos, announced that the social sector of the association has started implementing new project which focuses on carrying out a social diagnosis of living realities in Old Tripoli in order to produce a development plan based on the needs and priorities of local inhabitants. Miss Lebanon, for her part, underlined her commitment to women cause and to defend women in all their social roles as mothers, daughters, wives, friends, lovers, workers, housewives, entrepreneurs and particularly marginalized, tormented and oppressed women. (An Nahar, 1 August 2015)