Focus on capacity building among Omani women

Muscat: Concerned with the role of women in the society, the Omani Woman Association (OWA) runs many social and educational programmes.
One such programme was organised by the Omaniya Cultural Salon at OWA to promote girls’ capabilities and develop their talents.
OWA has been organising since November 2016 a special program for the Girls’ Cultural Club titled “My Excellence is a Giving” at Al Fat’h School in the Wilayat of Bausher. The programme aims to take care of the girls’ capabilities, talents and their free time and use them in meaningful work that contributes to raising their cultural, social, behavioural and moral level, in addition to instilling the concept of citizenship, the consolidation of foundations of family communication and promoting positive thinking and love of science.
Dr. Badria bint Nasser Al Wahibiyah, Deputy Chairwoman of OWA in Muscat, Supervisor of the activities of the Girls’ Cultural Club said that “My Excellence is a Giving” programme includes several stages. She pointed that the first stage where 84 participants took part, started in November and December of last year through organizing a series of seminars, lectures and training programmes in a number of important areas and disciplines that serve the Omani girl. The first experiment focused on the age group of 11 to 17 years old to provide a variety of programmes in a range of topics, including positive thinking, planning, goal-setting and training sessions in thinking.
The second stage where 45 participants took part, began in January 2017 and continues until February. The programme included smart games session provided by Talal al-Jabri, Supervisor at the Ministry of Education. The session displayed a range of smart games for the development of students’ intelligence skills, motivation and cooperation skills, effective communication methods. The participants showed interest in the programme through exchange of ideas and dialogue with everyone.
At this stage, Dr. al-Wahibiyah organized a workshop entitled “Book Reading,” during which she addressed types of reading, five-step of reading art, skills of summarizing and highlighting the main ideas, basics of choosing the right book, in addition to a number of writing activities and enriching reading through a series of books.
The third stage will begin in March and extends two months. At this stage, the focus will be on the sports programme, in collaboration with a group of companies providing sports equipment and playgrounds, as well as a permanent trainer at the club.
The Deputy Chairwoman of OWA in Muscat said that the Girls Club comes, in cooperation with Al Fat’h School for basic education in the Wilayat of Bausher, based on the recommendations of the seminar “Activation Girls’ Clubs in the Neighborhoods and the Wilayats” organized by the Omaniya Cultural Salon at OWA, as part of the keenness of OWA in Muscat to provide social and educational programs that serve the community, children and woman to qualify them to take responsibility towards themselves, their families, their homeland and to become active members.