2006 PROJECTS

Episcopal Technological Training Center

Ramallah, West Bank

Scholarships - $3,588  

Summer camp - $7,881  

The Training Center provides technical education for 400 young Palestinian students with hands-on demonstrations of technological tools and scientific principles. Four labs have been built and equipped. The program begins to build a valuable labor force by teaching young people how things work and preparing them for a new, bright future. The program, a collaboration between the Episcopal Diocese, the Greek Catholic School and the Evangelical Lutheran School , was so successful last year that all parties agreed to offer it again in 2006.

Student scholarships will allow 7th, 8th and 9th grade students to participate in the Training Center programs.

Younger children, between the ages of 6 and 12, will be exposed to computers, music, drama, cooking, arts, journalism and sports through a technological, cultural and recreational summer camp held in June and July. A total of 120 children can attend.