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- Country of residence: Palestine
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At the end of 2015, I started using the educational tools; She designed a free-form clay for the students to teach them the formation of the earth’s crust using different colors of clay. She was able to involve most of the students in assembling the clay. She returned the next day and found that 80% of the students had memorized the methods for forming the earth’s crust, a result that increased her motivation to create other educational tools.
Al-Saqqa moved on to designing small paintings made of cardboard and colorful cloth to attract children and to pay attention to her lessons, during exercises on combining letters and composing them into words. After a year and a half of training in UNRWA and government schools, Al-Saqqa did not obtain a job or a temporary contract despite receiving an excellent evaluation.
Al-Saqqa says, “The teacher in Gaza is the last person to get a job. I was shocked when I went to update my record at the Ministry of Labor, and I found that the most specializations awaiting jobs are teachers, and there are tens of thousands of them. I returned home disappointed, but I thought I would continue designing tools to motivate children to School lessons.
As for private schools, they found obstacles to applying in their advertisements, because they required no less than two years of experience, and did not take into account the circumstances of new graduates, but they decided not to describe them as unemployed graduates.
Ghadeer set out to make books and educational games of different sizes, and began promoting them on her Facebook page. Three months after launching her project, she received an invitation to participate in the “My City Exhibition,” which displays feminist handicrafts, at the end of August 2017.
She was able to explain her project and innovations to the women and mothers attending the exhibition, and meet the needs of some mothers who asked her for some tools that would help their children understand some lessons, especially mathematics and general science lessons.
Al-Saqqa adds, “These tools improve the level of understanding and concentration among students in school, because the educational system lacks means of entertainment and educational tools that contribute to enriching students during the explanation of some school lessons, and from here I also began designing tools that support education that are compatible with the needs of the student and the mother.” Even the teacher who asked me to do it.”
The Al-Saqqa project from the Fares Al-Arab Foundation was chosen as one of the ten best projects for women entrepreneurs in Gaza in 2018. It was chosen to be in third place in Palestine in the Palestinian Women’s Entrepreneurship Competition supported by the Belgian Development Agency, and because it relies on recycling environmentally friendly tools such as She uses cardboard, plastic bottles, wood sticks, and cloth in her creations.
She notes that, in addition to the games, she designs interactive educational books for children from one to five years old, which are educational books for good general culture and educational instructions that make it easier for the mother to explain some of the teachings of adherence to etiquette, general hygiene, and wearing clothes, in addition to other books for children aged from 6 to 12 years, which include books that include maps and a cloth phone for mathematics lessons, and other books that include human figures and animal and plant cells.
The tools used include some office supplies, adhesives, and colors, and she is looking forward to developing her project and targeting work for schools and some kindergartens.
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