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Palestine
Ensuring safe and equitable
access to education for all Palestinian children is a major goal of the
education sector. In previous years, Palestine made remarkable progress in improving
access to education – especially in the lower grade levels. In spite of this, there
are still severe access challenges in some areas of the Palestinian Territory,
due to a lack of schools or classroom shortage. This results often in
overcrowded classrooms or unsuitable learning environments which negatively impacts
on the quality of teaching and learning.
Since 2005, Belgium supports the
Palestinian education system in overcoming these difficulties through the
rehabilitation of schools and by building new schools. One of the instruments
is the Joint Financing Arrangement – a basket fund to support the
implementation of the Education Sector Plan in the Palestinian Territory. The fund
is supported by Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland and Norway.
On 23 May 2016, the Minister of
Education, Dr. Sabri Saidam, and Consul-General of Belgium, Bruno Jans
inaugurated the secondary school for girls in Far’oun. The construction of this
new school in the eastern part of the West Bank was supported by the JFA and
was completed last year. The school is now fully operational, and hosts more
than 250 girls from six different grades. Thanks to this newly built school the
pressure on the educational system in the Far’oun village has decreased considerably
and allows the students to follow classes in a more stimulating learning environment.
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