Mentorship Community Awareness Program

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The Mentorship-Community Awareness Program:

Program began to operate in 1998 and is intended for the Bedouin women student community. Its goal is to help students currently attending institutions of higher education successfully complete their degrees, and to attain professional and personal success following graduation. Furthermore, the program emphasizes the importance and positive impact of education for Bedouin women on advancing socio-economic status of the Bedouin community, and provides desperately-needed professional services to them.

Every year about 50-20 Bedouin women students participate in the program, which is made up of four components:

1. Financial: Financial assistance through scholarships awarded to cover part of tuition feeds, with cooperation of academic institutes around the Negev. Criterions: financial status, needed professions among Bedouin community, family status (families and tribes who rarely send women to study), continuance (through all of study period).  
2. Communal Social: voluntarily work within the Bedouin community and cooperation with other social- communal organizations. (as mentioned on section 1)
3.  Culture-community-personal: monthly workshops, to create a sense of belonging to a group and reinforcement of this, support and encouragement of students; to promote women's leadership and equality, to help the women to cope with the different environment they are in.
4. The Round Table Program (in association with Maan forum): the need to address gender issues with men, creating an opportunity to speak, eye to eye, about differences, expectations, fears, strengths, community, family life, leadership, past-present-future etc.

These programs, in addition to their initial target, also create a sense of belonging to a group (while the women do not study together, we create for them a group within the university) and reinforcement of this, support and encouragement of students; promote women's leadership and equality and help the women to cope with the different environment they are in, while still dealing with questions, dilemmas and gaps they are having as a result of their choice to study.

5. Lobbying: assistance to help Bedouin women students’ admittance to places of higher learning, to various departments of study and inter-departmental mobility as well as passage to and from places of higher learning. This service is given also to Bedouin students who don't receive a scholarship.