Wednesday 26 November 2014 Outreach visits - Na'amat in Nazareth and Amutah in Tamra

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Blaine and I drove to Nazareth from Ein Gev where we were staying with the students.  We stopped at four different organizations that BYU has helped.  The first one was Na'Amat Trade School. Rodaina Jaraisy and Laila Yazbak are the directors.

BYU bought them a dental chair for the dental assistant program.

We then went to the Na'Amat High School to see Nadera Tannous, the principal.  Margret Elwanger arranged for her and 12 teachers to go to Farmington, Utah a few years ago for an inservice program to learn new teaching methods.  They stayed with 6 families in Farmington.  Nadera had many nice things to say about their experience in Utah. Margaret has a graduation party each year at her home in Natanya.

We taught a class "A- to- a- taw."  That song has served me well and broken the language barrier.

Linda and Nadera with the girls.

We then went to a conference that Abas Abas  sponsored with Almanarah.  It was a conference addressing the problems people with handicaps face.  They had a panel discussion and speakers. Abas's mother, Linda, Abas, Blaine and Abas's father.  Almanarah helps people with disabilities, particularly sight impaired people.

 The mother and father in this family are both deaf.  The children all have normal hearing.  The mother was on the panel discussion.  What a sweet family.

Our last humanitarian visit for the day was in Tamra which is Northwest of Nazareth.  BYU helps an after school program run by the woman on the left- Ramzia.  She is a Palestinian member of the church.

 

Ramzia's assistant, Ruwaida is opening some of the hygiene kits we brought  them.

 

These are some of the students in the after-school program.