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.
Muna Ammar
Founder
2026 Fellow - Beit Ummar
Muna grew up in Beit Ummar, born to a businessman father who loved books and a mother who taught English in Jerusalem before marriage — a household that made learning feel like oxygen. She studied biology at Al-Quds University, spent seven years teaching in public schools, then stepped back to earn a master's in health administration and a project management diploma. Four and a half years working in community development with a local NGO sharpened her eye for what her community was missing. She founded Tanweer in late 2017 — first as a private center, later as an NGO — driven by the belief that every child deserves a space to learn, not just a seat in a classroom.
Tanweer Center
Muna Ammar
