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ICT initiative to support child education in Lebanon
25-1-2018
Apple CEO Tim Cook and the youngest women’s rights Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yusafzai chose downtown Beirut to launch a partnership last Saturday aimed at fostering girls’ education. The initiative targets 100 thousand girls in different countries, including Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Nigeria. Cook and Malala met with Lebanese and Syrian representatives of two organizations active in the field of education, and they are, the Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL) and Basmeh & Zeitooneh which will be funded through this partnership program. Malala and Cook met with Syrian girls receiving education through said associations. During the meeting which was described as ‘very responsive and emotional’, Cook and Malala motivated the children to ask questions. Fadi Haliso, chair of Basmeh & Zeitooneh, emphasized the significance of the partnership which transcends financing to highlighting the rights of the child to have access to proper education. For the reference, Basmeh & Zeitooneh has been active in the field of education, development and relief in Lebanon since it kicked off in 2012 by a group of Syrian activists with Lebanese partners in response to the Syrian displacement crisis. LAL, on the other hand, was launched in 2014 to close the educational gap and reduce the number of school dropouts particularly in disadvantaged areas. (L’Orient Le Jour, January 22, 2018)
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