Burj Luq Luq

13 May, 2013
Jerusalem Spring Festival for Shopping 2013 “Live the Country”…Go and buy from the Old City”
Burj Al-luqluq Social Center Society in cooperation with the Popular Art Centre and “Me & My brother Against My Cousin” initiative organized a festival under the title of “Jerusalem Spring Festival for Shopping”
13 May, 2013
The Return of Football Tournament for Jerusalem Quarters
Jerusalem Quarters Tournament activities come back again (Sunday) on the land of Burj Al-luqluq Social Center with the participation of a group of Jerusalem quarters in football, basketball and tennis table.
13 May, 2013
A visit to the “French Cultural Centre” for a group of women
A group of women under the supervision of the administrative assistant “Rula Joulani” and the fund raising assistant “Rawan Awad” visited the French Cultural Centre to view an exhibit of photos for women from all over the world.
13 May, 2013
The National Reading Week Campaign “Tamer Institute and Burj Al-luqluq Social Center Society”
The national reading week campaign started in Burj Al-luqluq Social Center Society on Monday 1/4/2013. The participants of the activities and events included a huge number of children, youth and the library members.
13 May, 2013
Jerusalem Mountains Tour “Live the Country 2”
Burj Al-luqluq Social Center Society organized a cultural trip within the “Athletic, Cultural, and Artistic Support Project for Jerusalem Youth”. It included all the participated clubs in the project such as: Jerusalem Club, Mount of Olives Club and Jerusalem Crescent Club.

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Live the country project 2 "Support Jerusalem youth artistically, culturally and athletically" Its considered part of the first living the country project. We developed the idea further to support the athletic part to in the Old City of Jerusalem. This program aims to contribute to the development of young people in the city of Jerusalem, their life skills and raise their awareness of the cultural and social challenges that they would face in adulthood. It also aims to enable them to respond through the ownership of the positive values and behaviors. The beneficiaries of this program are about 400 young women and men aged between 14-25 years. The project include tours, cultural evenings, art festivals, sport tournaments and life skills.

Learn and play project This project targets youth between 14-17 years of age. It focuses on sport training in football under the supervision of the Coach Nihad Zughayer and professional supervisors on the academic subjects (English and Arabic language and the subject of Mathematics). The donor of this project is the Pontifical Mission in Jerusalem (P.M.P) in order to develop youth in Jerusalem academically and athletically.

Library Project "Faisal Al-Husseini Library" Library project aims to develop children capabilities academically and culturally through drama, theatre and art trainings. The project attracts children who are aged from 6-14 years that are part of an academic program for school materials in addition to an entertainment program that includes drama and art trainings. There are almost 30 beneficiaries during the time of the library on a daily basis after school. A large group of children who live in Bab-Hutta benefit from this program academically during school hours. The Society aims to develop and promote the children’s abilities especially in academically and educationally.

WOMAN

WOMEN ARE CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT INFLUENCEIN WITHIN ANY SOCIETY. THEREFORE TACKLING THE ISSUES AND STRUGLES OF WOMEN IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SUBJECTS FOR US. SPECIAL ATTENTION IS GIVEN to developing, empowering and supporting women in our communities. Lectures and meetings focusing on psychological, and positive thinking, also the rights of women within religion and state.

In the last year there has been many collaborations with other organization such as PFPP, (Caritas //Center and Ma'an Center to conduct activities that are specialized in guiding and supporting women.

Improving Protection Services and Psychosocial Support Project for Youth in Jerusalem

The Social Worker in the Society works on directing the children academically and socially by providing a safe and wide place to spend their leisure time in a productive way. The project includes physiological support sessions for males and females as well as sessions for their parents to discuss psychosocial topics which aims to improve the psychological situation and raise the efficiency of the children and their parents.

The project works on training the youth through building their skills in life skills topics to live in a healthy way, and during their training they work also on implementing summer youth camp and effective youth initiatives in their Society. One main activity of the project is to focus on academic and sport corners "football, basketball, Arabic language and math" the number of the beneficiaries of this corner reach about more than 200 children. The project is implemented in Burj Al-luqluq Social Center in cooperation with Ma'an Center and funded by the UNICEF.

Computer lab

The computer lab in Burj Al-luqluq is considered to be one of the most active facilities. This lab was established in 1999 with the support of two Italian associations (Peace Game and ARCS) and with the cooperation of the Department of Youth Development (Y.D.D) in the city of Jerusalem. The computer lab room contains about 18 device. It has about 45 people benefiting from the usage of this room daily for entertaining and educational purposes. A group of program beneficiaries are trained on Adobe Photoshop and the basics of computer usage and in the evening hours the lab is open for the people of the neighborhood for free use.

Library

Faisal Al-Husseini Library The library of the Society is one of the platforms of facilities as it includes about 2000 valuable books useful and includes a number of daily activities. The most important of activities are the reading of a story every week, art workshops, cultural events and watching films. The library targets children who are between ages of 6 to 14 years old. The library is open five days a week from 2:00-5:00 pm, except on Friday and Saturday. The programs of the library are organized with the General French Consulate in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Fund and Tamer Institute. Library doors are open for school and university students throughout the whole year to benefit from the books in their study and various research.

Football School

Basketball: target about 70 female participants divided into two groups according to their age. They are trained three times a week and supervised by a qualified crew including a coach and coach assistant for each group under the supervision of Coach Ahmad Jabir. Football: provides services to about 200 males participants divided into three groups according to their ages. They are trained three times a week and supervised by a qualified crew including a coach and coach assistant for each group under the supervision of Sport Program Manager, Coach Nihad Zughayer.

Kindergarten

The kindergarten was founded in 1999 in response to community needs to provide pedagogical framework safe for children from age 3 to 5 years old. In light of the difficult economic conditions experienced by the local community, these services are offered to the children of the local community for a small monetary sum.

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Jerusalem Spring Festival for Shopping 2013 “Live the Country”…Go and buy from the Old City”

The Return of Football Tournament for Jerusalem Quarters

A visit to the “French Cultural Centre” for a group of women

The National Reading Week Campaign “Tamer Institute and Burj Al-luqluq Social Center Society”

Jerusalem Mountains Tour “Live the Country 2”