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Al Saraya Center for Community Service
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Al Saraya Center is a non-profit NGO that operates in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Overview
Organisation type
Nonprofit organisation
Country of Registration
Annual Budget
100 000 - 1 000 000 USD
Scope
National
SDG / Categories
Field of Activities
Organisation Laguage
English
Arabic
Contact
Contact
Nidaa Dwaik
Website
Phone
+972 54-880-9924
Al Saraya Center for Community Service is a non-profit community development organization that operates in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem. Since its establishment in 1991, Al Saraya has dedicated all its activities and programs to strengthen the steadfastness of the Jerusalemite community under the vision to create “An Empowered Jerusalemite Community living in Dignity”. The Center’s mission is "to promote societal change and resilience by developing the skills, knowledge, and abilities of children, women, and youth through comprehensive and innovative learning mechanisms".
The Center was established in response to the urgent need to strengthen the Arab presence in Jerusalem and the Old City in particular in order to improve the cultural, social, educational and economic conditions of the population, and contribute to minimizing the effects of systematic Israeli policies aimed at Judaizing the city.
The Center strongly believes in the importance of developing life skills for its targeted groups of children, women and youth. Furthermore, it believes in its vital role in bringing about societal change among the Jerusalemite community to be positively resilient, dignified and able to persevere in Jerusalem despite the threats faced by the occupation.
Al Saraya Center carries out its activities through four major programs:
• The Women Empowerment Program:
• The Community Development Program:
• The Children Literature Program
• The Academic and Social Support Program
Vision
A Jerusalemite community living in dignity
Mission
Believing in the importance of learning, comprehensive education and the need to bring about social change, Al Saraya Center for Community Service, located in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem works on the development of life skills especially for children, women and youth through outreach programs and non-formal education in collaboration and networking with various community based institutions.
Values
- Transparency
- Quality, excellence and distinction
- Participation
- Allegiance
- Commitment
- The right to live decently
Objectives
Strategic Objective 1:
Enhance skills and attitudes of children and enable their environment for empowered children whom are capable to achieve their future aspirations
Specific Objective 1.1: Enhance skills and attitudes of children at the personal, psycho-social, and academic levels to confidently and effectively deal with their communities
Specific Objective 1.2: Create a conducive environment for children to better nurture and develop personally, academically and psycho-socially
Strategic Objective 2:
Empower Jerusalemite adults (with special focus on women and youth) to enhance resilience of their communities
Specific Objective 2.1: Promote adult education and learning (with focus on women and youth) within global understanding of Adult-Education and LLL for better social and economic opportunities
Specific Objective 2.2: Contribute to increasing capabilities and resources of Jerusalemite adults with focus on women and youth to define alternatives to personal and societal issues
Strategic Objective 3:
Develop results based management, leadership, governance, accountability and sustainability of Saraya to contribute to achieving its mission and vision
Specific objective 3.1: Al Saraya Center's management and staff administrative and financial capacities, systems and environment are developed to contribute to achievements and learning of Saraya
Specific objective 3.2: Develop administrative and financial capacities, systems and environment that comply with international standards