OPEN CLIMBING DAY at the Wall for The Children of Jebal Shams
...Because giving Rocks!! THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH 2013 DOORS OPEN: 11am - 5pm ADMISSION: 4 OMR ATTIRE: Shoes with toes covered, loose clothes LOCATION:The Wall in Al Khuwair Way # 4509, Building # 1003 CONTACT NO: 2448 4559 or 2448 5663 For more information, email at marie@holiday-in-oman.com / justin@holiday-in-oman.com / info@holiday-in-oman.com / instructor@holiday-in-oman.com Visit their facebook page: TheWall Climbing Centre (Oman) THE CHILDREN OF JEBAL SHAMS The Children of Jebel Shams’ is a charity project set up to promote education and reading in the remote areas of Jebel Shams, the highest mountain in Oman. Through generations several villages have remained spread out over the mountain often with little or no access to proper education. |
These days the children attend government schools in the nearby town of Al Hamra, but getting there is still an arduous daily journey. The result is that many children drop out of school early and stay in the village to help their family tend the goats and sheep, trying to supplement their family’s income by selling home-made key rings and hand-woven rugs to the tourists.
It is not only the tiresome journey at the back of a pick-up truck down the mountain in the early hours of the morning, but the struggle of having to keep up with a world of education where computers and internet is as normal to the other children as the spinning of wool is to the children of Jebel Shams.
To help the children make learning and education a nice experience through facilitating books, stationery and computers directly to the villages, it encourages the children to attend and stay in school.
Contact 'The Children of Jebel Shams’
Rachael MacIver
maciverterry@hotmail.com
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