| AL-MASSAR
seeks to promote the education of the youth of Lebanon and raise awareness among
all members of the society of the importance of education in broadening one's
horizons. Our objrctive is to empower members of society to contribute to the
development of their environment and nation. The underlying purpose of the
Program is to realize economic and social prosperity in Lebanon through the education
of young minds.
Specifically
speaking, AL-MASSAR aims to: | Reduce
the dropout rates of students primarily at the intermediary and the secondary
level by 50%; |  | Reduce
failure rates and promote the development, improvement, and excellence of those
youth; | | |
Assist and encourage youth in need to pursue their formal and vocational education. |
In
its early stages - PHASE 1, AL-MASSAR will focus on helping the orphans
of the 2006 war and the students of a selected public school in the south of Lebanon
affected by this war as a pilot study of the Program's efficiency. These two groups
will be the first beneficiaries of the Program AL-MASSAR's launch in the
academic year 2006/2007. With time - PHASE 2, the Program will be expanded
to realize its long-term objective of functioning on a national level. |