Strategic Objectives
Empowering Palestinian Youth
● Building skills in leadership, advocacy, and community dialogue.
● Encouraging youth participation in economic, cultural, and political life.
Improving Children’s Development and Well-being
● Providing mental health support and ensuring a healthy growth environment.
● Encouraging children’s civic participation and self-expression.
Strengthening Al-Manar’s Institutional Capacity
● Developing clear policies and procedures. . .
● Training staff to efficiently implement programs. .
Strengthening Women’s Rights and Participation
● Enhancing women’s economic empowerment and access to resources.
● Supporting women’s participation in leadership roles and decision-making.
Our Target Grroup
Youth
Women
Children
Programs and Aims
AL Manar Language school
Al Manar Society and Windflower Educational Network are united by a shared vision of Palestinian liberation through education 80 years of occupation and siege have left Palestine’s education systems in crisis, and we believe that emergent grassroots organisations will continue to be the key to sustaining Palestine’s rich intellectual traditions as the military assault continues. Working alongside Al Manar Society for Culture and Creativity, we provide online English Language training, professional skills development and academic mentoring to students from Gaza, West Bank and the diaspora. The “Youth Can Do Change: Safe Space for Women” project is implemented by the Al Manar Society for Culture and Creativity in Palestine as part of the “Enhancing the Role of Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Implementing the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda” program in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine. This program is funded by the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations of the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. In Palestine, it is carried out in partnership between the Euro-Mediterranean Feminist Initiative (EFI) and the Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD). The project aims to empower Palestinian women and youth by strengthening their role in peacebuilding processes and promoting a culture of gender equality. This is achieved through activities focusing on education, psychosocial support, awareness-raising, and community advocacy. The project has targeted 240 young men and women in the Bethlehem area.
Our goals are to:
strengthen and build capacity in Palestinian grassroots educational initiatives amplify the voices of marginalised Palestinian communities build resilient and extensive international networks with Palestinian organisations at the centre facilitate material development through access to quality education. theorise and implement decolonial models of online language education, which trouble and contest contemporary practices. Many of our learners are university students and professionals for whom English competence is a prerequisite for continuing education or career progression. For others, fluency means narrative control and the power of self-definition and advocacy on the global stage. There are in addition many for whom our classes are a safe space and retreat.
Together We Can Do More
