Workshop for preparing sermonizers for supporting female education

A training workshop, organized by the Ministry of Endowment and Guidance and in cooperation with the United Nation International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), began yesterday, Tuesday August 20, in the Ibb Governorate.

In coordination between preachers and the concerned bodies, the workshop aims at preparing 50 sermonizers and religious guides from al-Sabrah and al-Fara districts for three days. The workshop comes within the training program specific for supporting female education. In the opening ceremony, Fuad Yahya Mansour, Assistant Deputy Governor, indicated the importance of teaching females and its impact in raising the level of awareness in the society and its positive reflection on women’s participation in the various development programs; economic, social, and the political. It was pointed out that women’s education has good impacts in work and production, family organizing, rearing the next generation, and creating a better home environment. 

Mansour hinted at the government’s efforts in providing convenient opportunities for female education. Abdullatif Mohammed al-Moalimi, General Manager of Endowment and Guidance Bureau of Ibb Governorate, and Mohammed al-Sahmani, workshop coordinator, viewed workshop axes which focus on the importance of female education, legal viewpoints concerning Islam’s appreciation for science and its invitation for female teaching. Also, they viewed workshops on the Muslim woman’s role in the prophetic Sunnah and the role of the preachers and religious woman guides towards the case in reality. 

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