Women Academy… strengthen women's role in society

AMINA AL-ALI/ AL-RAQQA

The Syrian Women Academy opened in Teshrin located in the north of al-Raqqa city on 2 February, 2018, after the marginalization of women in al-Raqqa due to the IS occupation in the city for 4 consecutive years.

The academy aims to strengthen the women's role in the social and practical life, as well as to promote the concept of the co-existence life by opening courses and the women participating from al-Raqqa, al-Tabqa, and Deir ez-Zor.

In less than a year, the academy enabled to end 9 courses, each course included 33 trainees, for 25 days, where they received ideological lessons concentrating on the importance of training, the history of women, the women's role in building democratic society.

The administrator of the academy, Hifa Mustafa pointed out that the training is a radical change affect positively in the trainees' personalities in developing their intellectual level.

She added:" We faced many obstacles, because of the dark ideology planted by IS among the people, where the people's acceptance of the training and the women getting out of their homes was rejected at the beginning, but this idea has been removed and women began flowing to the academy." 

In turn, the trainee Sara al-Haj Muhammad confirmed the necessity to join the training courses due to its importance in society, it contributes to open the prospects for trainees through important lessons. 

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ANHA