 Educational
Welfare ProgramTable 18: Summary of
the Educational Welfare Projects in Various Continents
during the Fiscal Year 2004/2005
|
Continent |
Countries |
Student Scholarships/ Assistance |
Teachers |
IIROSA Educational Institutions* |
Amounts
(S.R.) |
|
Number |
Students |
|
Asia |
13 |
77 |
14 |
10 |
5, 248 |
1,882,903 |
|
Africa |
17 |
73 |
41 |
11 |
10,665 |
4,004,199
|
|
Europe |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Grand Total |
30 |
150 |
55 |
21 |
15,913 |
5, 887,102 |
-
Asian countries: Azerbaijan, Jordan, Afghanistan, Indonesia,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, China,
Palestine, Malaysia, Nepal and Yemen.
-
African countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Benin, Burundi, Chad,
Tanzania, Gambia, Djibouti, Cote d' Ivoire, Senegal, Sudan,
Somalia, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Egypt and Nigeria.
*
Educational Institutions include: universities, colleges,
institutes, schools, and hostels.
Emphasizing its principle in the significance of education and the role
it could play in social renaissance and advancement, the IIROSA decided
in 1986 to create an Educational Welfare Program in order to carry out a
number of educational programs such as students aid schemes, teacher
sponsorship, scholarships, subsidizing schools, institutes and
universities besides providing books and reviewing school curricula.
General objectives
-
 Help
educate young people.
- Providing necessary training in the fields
required by societies.
- Helping educational institutions to
transform from the state of need and compel them into abandon the
state of abundance.
- Encouraging adult education, and enhancing
the spread of
culture and Arabic language.
- Providing the poor and needy women with
sound education with emphasis on rights and duties.
Ways and means
The Educational Welfare Program seeks to achieve these noble aims
through the following
-
 Supporting
and running educational institutions.
- Offering sponsorship to teachers.
- Offering scholarships and financial aid to
the poor and needy students.
- Subsidizing cultural activities and
refresher courses.
- Providing literature, syllabi, teaching aid,
laboratories and language labs to the affiliated and owned schools.
Preparing and developing school curricula.
- Following main programs have been
developed to further the objectives of the Educational Welfare
Program:
- Subsidizing educational institutions.
- Teacher sponsorship.
- Student aid schemes
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