Their News [Archives:2008/1132/Local News]
ACCESS MENA Project concludes Three kilometers away from the Yemeni-Saudi borders and with the attendance of the Governor of Hajja Governorate, Eng. Fareed Mujawar, the Child Labor Combat Project (ACCESS MENA) held a ceremony in Al-Khudoor area, Haradh district. This occasion was held to celebrate the conclusion of seven training courses on child centered methodologies program which targeted 189 male and female teachers in five districts of Hajja Governorate. The ceremony also included handing over eight cultural and social centers to the targeted schools by the project. Each center contains four computers with their accessories in addition to an integrated library with necessary furniture as well as a first aid pharmacy and an electrical generator.
In his speech, Dr. Jamal Al-Haddi, Project manager, emphasized that these activities aim to create an attractive environment for school children and originate friendly schools that respond to the children's scientific, cultural and recreational requirements and limit children being drop out of schools and consequently reduce them being involved in activities related to trafficking.
The Governor of Hajja Governorate Mujawar praised the ACCESS MENA Project and confirmed that its activities contribute in supporting the developmental activities in Hajja Governorate, calling upon the local authorities to identify the priorities of the essential requirements.
This activity coincides with the psychosocial training courses currently being held by the Project in the Ibb and Abyan governorates which target 50 school headmasters and psychosocial teachers in the project's working areas. These courses aim to train the trainees on ways of behavior modification and how to make children acquire life skills in addition to introduce the trainees to a number of skills and activities related to the teacher-student relationship management and the role of the psychosocial specialist in enhancing such relationship to be a daily-basis behavior within the school.
Finance Leaders Conclude meeting
More than 70 heads of Middle Eastern financial institutions, senior public sector officials and, leaders of financial services firms from Europe and the United States, today concluded the 11th annual meeting of Middle Eastern and North African Bank Chief Executives hosted by the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) in association with the Institute of International Finance (IIF). The conference was held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Dubai, and President of the DIFC.
A key theme on the agenda of the meeting was the possible impact on the Middle East's economy of the slow-down in the United States economy. Speaking to the conference on Saturday evening, Dr. Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Institute of International Finance's Board of Directors and Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank AG, stressed that, “The Gulf Co-operation Council region is in the midst of a boom, underpinned by sustained high oil prices, with the economic drivers going beyond oil as private confidence and investment are now at an all time high. As such, even if the U.S. were to slip into recession, and oil prices were to dip, we believe the impact would be greatly mitigated by the significant number of major infrastructure projects that are already underway or are being pursued throughout the GCC. These will provide momentum for robust development in a number of sectors, including energy and petrochemicals, real estate, trade and finance, and tourism, for several years to come.”
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