This may be a tad bit overdue, but we still need to kinda sorta let you guys know what we're about. We've been so caught up with this hurricane of a project that we didn't stop and explain ourselves to you readers.
Let's start from the beginning of "The Beginning".
3 girls decided to join forces for their senior capstone project in the College of Communication and Media Sciences in Zayed University. Aware that this is the university's last ever capstone projects and their major shot to give back to the community, they were very careful of what they should run with. Small was not an option - they wanted massive.
Ideas were tossed back and forth, one in particular sunk and made sense, however, it wasn't approved as a capstone topic. It was back to the drawing board for them which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because only then did they stumble on this rock of an idea which they polished into a diamond (in their eyes, at least).
Al Bedaya was born to be Zayed University's first ever capstone project which requires Yellow Fever vaccinations (among many, many others) and involves a trip abroad to the rural village of Kajiado in Kenya.
The idea is simple: self-education without borders. In the digital and information age where answers are available at our fingertips, it is unfathomable that 67 million children around the world are not getting an education. What's even frustrating still is that education is not meant to cost a fortune, and social media testifies to that. All you need is a computer, an internet connection and a desire to learn.
But wait...there's more. As university students, we have come to realize that the truly valuable education was not learnt in the classroom but outside of it. Websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia that depend on user interaction has helped us understand what we couldn't and discover what was once hidden to us. We're trying to promote this method of education to the Kenyan students in the all-girls' secondary school in Kajiado.
We leave on Sunday the 15th to embark on a journey to teach the students the methods outlined in our website (to be launched very, very soon). An entire week will be spent navigating through the website and introducing a whole world of information the students can use to educate themselves on any subject they're interested in. After all, an educated woman is an educated nation.
That's where we're beginning. In Kajiado, Kenya.
Follow us on Twitter (@AlBedaya) and subscribe to our RSS feeds to stay up to date with our beginning,
Let's start from the beginning of "The Beginning".
3 girls decided to join forces for their senior capstone project in the College of Communication and Media Sciences in Zayed University. Aware that this is the university's last ever capstone projects and their major shot to give back to the community, they were very careful of what they should run with. Small was not an option - they wanted massive.
Ideas were tossed back and forth, one in particular sunk and made sense, however, it wasn't approved as a capstone topic. It was back to the drawing board for them which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because only then did they stumble on this rock of an idea which they polished into a diamond (in their eyes, at least).
Al Bedaya was born to be Zayed University's first ever capstone project which requires Yellow Fever vaccinations (among many, many others) and involves a trip abroad to the rural village of Kajiado in Kenya.
The idea is simple: self-education without borders. In the digital and information age where answers are available at our fingertips, it is unfathomable that 67 million children around the world are not getting an education. What's even frustrating still is that education is not meant to cost a fortune, and social media testifies to that. All you need is a computer, an internet connection and a desire to learn.
But wait...there's more. As university students, we have come to realize that the truly valuable education was not learnt in the classroom but outside of it. Websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia that depend on user interaction has helped us understand what we couldn't and discover what was once hidden to us. We're trying to promote this method of education to the Kenyan students in the all-girls' secondary school in Kajiado.
We leave on Sunday the 15th to embark on a journey to teach the students the methods outlined in our website (to be launched very, very soon). An entire week will be spent navigating through the website and introducing a whole world of information the students can use to educate themselves on any subject they're interested in. After all, an educated woman is an educated nation.
That's where we're beginning. In Kajiado, Kenya.
Follow us on Twitter (@AlBedaya) and subscribe to our RSS feeds to stay up to date with our beginning,
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