AMMAN — Sweden’s Queen Silvia will inaugurate a mentor office during a visit to
Jordan later this month, Mentor Arabia foundation said.
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The foundation announced the development in a press
conference at the Four Seasons hotel on Tuesday. It said the office is part of
foundation projects implemented in more than 80 countries worldwide.
Mentor International focuses on keeping young people
engaged in education, preparing them for adulthood, promoting a healthy
lifestyle to them, and reducing risky behavior, which they may be exposed to,
such as drug use.
The conference hosted representatives of the
foundation, as well as organizations and bodies that work in cooperation with
the Mentor foundation.
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Wajih Oweis, who was one of the speakers, told
that the ministry will “cooperate with the foundation through holding
extracurricular activities, which will be organized in classrooms”.
He noted that an agreement will be mapped out and
signed, “but nothing is prepared or fixed yet”.
Addressing the meeting, Oweis said that the Mentor
foundation “focuses on behaviors, and this is exactly what we need to focus on,
through our curriculums or direct education of our students”.
He said that “real change in our society can be
achieved only through changing the mindset, and making it more flexible, open
to change, and tolerant.”
He called on Mentor to also target four- and
five-year-old children in these programs to make a real change.
He pointed to the important role of teachers, saying
they “are the basis of any educational process, not the curriculum, and we need
to give a lot to our teachers”.
Thuraya Ismail, executive director for Mentor
Arabia, said that foundation studies showed that its programs had a
“considerable impact on the targeted students through enhancing their
decision-making abilities, and healthy choices”.
Mentor was founded in 1994 by Queen Silvia of
Sweden, in collaboration with members of the World Health Organization.
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