Muna Ammar

Tanweer Center

Tanweer Center was founded to close the educational and developmental gap facing children and youth in Beit Ummar — a town with no cultural centers, overcrowded schools, and limited access to the skills and spaces young people need to thrive. The Center offers interactive learning programs in literacy, English, computer skills, and the arts, filling a gap that families in the town had been traveling to Hebron to address. Among its students: a young woman who found her way through art classes after a painful divorce and went on to study fine arts at university, and a boy who arrived in fifth grade unable to read a single letter of Arabic and today is in eleventh grade. Tanweer turns the corner for children who have fallen behind — and gives them the confidence to keep going.