Press House Concludes "A Step towards a Better Education" Project

Press House-Palestine concluded "A Step towards a Better Education" project in Roots Hotel hall in Gaza City.

The ceremony was attended by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the main partner and supporter of the project, and the Ministry of Education in Gaza. In addition to local partners, civil society organizations and a number of specialists and educators.

The Chairman of the Press House, Belal Jadallah, stressed the role played by the Press House in embracing and supporting journalists and promoting the various issues of society, where education comes at the top of them considering it an essential tool in spreading awareness and change in societies.

He also confirmed on the belief of the press house and its employees that education is one of the most important pillars on which the society is based on, hoping that this project will be a cornerstone in the process of developing the Palestinian educational process and a means to enhance liberal education.

He concluded by thanking Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for its support for the project and the Ministry of Education for its continued and facilitate cooperation with the project activities.

In her turn, Wafa Al Ghussein, the educational counselor for the project, talked about the effort exerted during the project period to enhance emancipatory education.

She praised the contribution of the Press House in serving the education sector through the media platform as "the means by which none of us can deny that it is the strongest to deliver the word."

She expressed her happiness with her work and experience in the project and with the team of journalists who contributed in spreading the ideas and strategies of emancipatory education through the community raising-awareness activities and lobbying campaigns that led them to promote the goal of the project, which is helping to develop the Palestinian education based on emancipatory education.

In order to identify the project, Press House screened a video documenting all stages of the project and its actual outputs of research papers that provided an assessment of educational needs in Gaza Strip. In addition to a comparative video on education between Palestine and Finland, where its education is mainly based on emancipatory education.

Mona Shaheen, one of the participants in the project, talked about her experience during the project mentioning the skills and experience she gained which made a qualitative leap in her scientific and practical life. Where she learned about the importance of the resource room in the primary schools to integrate students with disabilities. Moreover, the need to develop these educational rooms for all learners to make education available to all. Which made her wants to meet some educational specialists and guides to learn more about the need of people with learning difficulties to integrate.

Mona participated in the call for the development of these rooms and their adoption by educational institutions through publishing a press report on the news agencies and the Directorate of Education in Rafah. Where she drew attention to the need to include and integrate this category, and the people with disabilities in general, in education, thus reaching a liberal education that helps in the development of Palestinian generations and society.

Press House honored Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the strategic partner and supporter of the project, and the Ministry of Education in Gaza, the official partner of the project. In addition to honoring the project team which are twenty young journalists from both genders.

It is worth mentioning that "A step towards a Better Education" project is the first educational project of its kind among the projects of the Press House, which came in accordance with a vision and a common interest between it and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Which aims at the development of education to be more participatory, strong and developed based on the liberal education. Which is the reason behind the rise of many peoples and countries Because of its principles based on respect for the learner, participation, acceptance of the other and the promotion of freedom of learning and access to innovation and creativity.