The Charitable Society for Orphan Care in the Eastern Province (Binaa) concluded a cooperation agreement with the College of Applied Studies and Community Service at Imam Abdul Rahman Al-Faisal University (formerly the University of Dammam) to study the “Diploma in Empowering Mothers of Orphans,” the day before yesterday morning in the main hall of the Central Library in the University City, in the presence of the University’s Vice President for Studies, Development, and Community Service, Dr.Abdullah bin Hussein Al-Qadi, Chairman of the Executive Council of “Benaa” Sheikh Saleh bin Abdul Rahman Al-Yousef, Director General of the Association Abdullah Al-Khalidi, and Dr.Sami Aba Hussein, Dean of the College of Applied Studies and Community Service, and Dean of the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Dr.Saleh Al-Rashed and Dr.Iqal Al-Joufin and Dr.Abdullah Al-Hadbaa, and a number of faculty members at the university and employees of the association.For his part, Dr. said:Abdullah Al-Qadi said that this program comes as a distinguished step within the framework of the efforts being made in society to care for this important segment, through the community partnership between Imam Abdul Rahman Al-Faisal University and the Charitable Society for Orphan Care in the Eastern Province (Benaa), stressing the meanings of solidarity and cohesion between the university and other groups of society.Al-Qadi explained that the university will grant a diploma certificate for empowering mothers of orphans, which will target mothers of orphans (widows in the Eastern Province), where the diploma will be implemented in the College of Applied Studies and Community Service at the university. The number of students studying for the diploma is 25 trainees per group with 220 training hours, indicating that one of the goals of the program is to qualify the mothers of widowed orphans psychologically, socially, pedagogically, educationally, professionally, and economically.Technically, raising their efficiency in dealing optimally with orphans and raising the efficiency of orphan children from a psychological, social, pedagogical, educational, vocational, economic and technical perspective.For his part, Dr. said:Sami Aba Hussein, Dean of the College of Applied Studies and Community Service, said that this diploma is one of the most important diplomas offered by the college in cooperation with the “Benaa” Charitable Society in the Eastern Region, which consists of a number of main training courses, which are a personal skills development course of 60 hours, an educational and family skills development course of 55 hours, a professional skills development course of 40 hours, and an economic and administrative skills development course of 65 training hours, stressing that the conditions for joining the program are that the student obtain a certificate.The high school diploma is the minimum requirement for enrollment, as the college may accept the enrollment of some female trainees in the training program who have not obtained a high school diploma if they are nominated through the association according to justified reasons, in addition to the association’s approval of the nomination of the female students.For his part, Abdullah Al-Khalidi, Director General of the Association, confirmed that this agreement is the first of its kind in the Kingdom, which is concerned with mothers of orphans, and we in the Association are happy with this agreement, which constitutes support for them through the diploma offered by Imam Abdul Rahman Al-Faisal University, which confirms the community partnership between charitable and governmental bodies, which indicates the depth of cooperation and support of the community’s need for such programs. This program came to complete the study of the training needs of mothers of orphans to qualify them academically in order to deal and train in a number ofThe courses will take specific hours and in specific methods, which will include discussion panels, interactive lectures, case studies, problem solving, workshop groups, brainstorming, and practical training. He pointed out that in the next two years, the training of all mothers will be completed so that they will also train other mothers in the same field, which confirms the integration of the process between them, which will allow the largest number of them to benefit, wishing success to all.
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