The capital sana'a: has launched the summer courses for the year 1447 AH, with wide participation and both official and popular base support. The aim is to protect youth and adolescents, strengthen their faith-based identity, and develop students' skills and talents through educational, religious, cultural, skills-based, and sports activities, while safeguarding them from soft war and moral deviance. Leaders of the Capital expressed their appreciation for the role of these courses in building a generation capable of facing challenges and emphasized the importance of parents' involvement in supporting their children's participation.
According to Yemen News Agency, with a keen commitment to protecting youth and adolescents and strengthening their faith-based identity, Capital Sana'a witnessed extensive activity and broad engagement early this week as the summer activities and courses for the year 1447 AH were launched with official and community participation, in an educational atmosphere filled with enthusiasm and awareness.
The summer courses aim to make use of the school break in ways that benefit students through educational, religious, cultural, skills-based, and sports activities and programs. They seek to develop students' abilities and skills, contributing to building a conscious generation shielded from the soft war and cultural and intellectual targeting by enemies who seek to corrupt them through various means.
The significant and sustained turnout for these courses in their early days reflects the level of official interest and the strength of the popular base that supports them, as well as growing awareness and responsibility in ensuring the success of summer activities, achieving their goals of protecting children from deviance and loss, raising them with faith-based values, and developing their various abilities and skills.
The summer courses hold great importance for building the rising generation, as they include teaching and memorizing the Holy Quran and its sciences, education in faith-based culture, educational activities in various fields, diverse programs that develop students' capabilities and refine their talents, in addition to sports activities that promote health and fitness.
They also include cultural and social activities, competitions, trips, the development of voluntary and teamwork spirit and initiative among participants, broadening their horizons in professional and creative fields, and providing them with agricultural, developmental, and community service experience - all contributing to creating a generation capable of facing challenges and advancing its nation and homeland.
In line with the directives of the Revolution Leader, the leadership of the Capital Sana'a has given great attention to the preparation, organization, and mobilization for the summer courses. Over the past period, they intensified mobilization and preparation efforts across all districts, approved action plans, diverse programs and activities, organized and implemented tasks, and gathered efforts and resources for them.
Extensive meetings were held with local authority leaders, the subcommittee for summer activities and courses, executive offices, districts, relevant authorities, executive, educational, and community committees, as well as work and mobilization committees. These meetings discussed and reviewed general guidelines, plans, programs, objectives, and responsibilities incumbent upon everyone to ensure the success of the courses.
The preparation plan included mobilizing and activating the role of official and community bodies, local, executive, educational, and cultural leaders, and social and influential figures, to support and ensure the success of the summer courses and achieve their desired goals.
Mayor of Capital Sana'a Dr. Hamoud Ubad explained that the Capital leadership has mobilized all resources to provide suitable environments for students to benefit from these courses, including providing schools to receive students across all districts, supporting educational staff, and supplying necessary tools and materials in cooperation with relevant authorities.
He affirmed that the summer courses represent educational base and a crucial weapon in the great battle of awareness against the soft war, by educating about its dangers, means, and methods of intellectual and cultural invasion and moral targeting of youth, adolescents, and society.
Dr. Ubad urged parents to encourage their children to enroll in the summer courses to benefit from the diverse programs and activities they offer.
For his part, First Capital Undersecretary Khaled al-Madani described the summer courses as safe and effective educational incubators /bases that contribute to raising and enlightening youth and adolescents, building a generation armed with knowledge, science, and Quranic culture, adhering to Islamic values, morals, and faith-based identity, capable of facing circumstances and carrying the banner of truth.
He praised the level of preparation, organization, momentum, and high student turnout for the summer courses across all districts, as well as the presence and efforts of leaders, educational and teaching staff, field workers, and the role of the popular base - especially parents - in encouraging their children to join these important educational incubators.
Al-Madani emphasized that these summer courses and activities represent a strong fortress for the rising generations, contributing to building their academic and creative capabilities, developing their skills and talents in various fields, and protecting them from the soft war.
Under the slogan "Knowledge and Jihad," the summer courses gain great importance given the circumstances facing the nation and the region, and the targeting and soft wars endured by free countries and peoples. They contribute to strengthening national and faith-based belonging among youth and adolescents through activities that connect them to their values, community, and the causes of their nation.
The summer courses are not limited to educational, cultural, and sports activities; rather, they represent incubators/ bases for learning, talent discovery, and the consolidation of faith-based identity in students' hearts, enabling them to confront attempts to erase and target this identity.