Archive for August, 2015
2015 scholarships awarded
2015 – 17 school scholarship girls Haneen, Wala and Taima are the latest Dar El Tifl girls to be awarded DSMT school scholarships. All have challenging family circumstances that threatened their chances of completing their schooling to age 18. These scholarships will enable them to do this, and to access qualifications to improve their future […]
Read moreChevening Scholarship award
In 2015 Tamara Halasi, 2007-2012 DSMT HE scholarship student, was awarded a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship to study for a Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2015-16 at the University of Surrey. These scholarships are aimed at young people with evident leadership qualities and competition for them is very tough. Applicants come from over […]
Read moreHigh achieving school leavers
The three 2013-15 school scholarship girls who all studied in the scientific stream have done exceptionally well through 11th and 12th grade with school averages always above 90. All three achieved exceptional results in the national Tawjihi exams in summer 2015. Hanan scored 92.4%, Aseel, 96.3% and Bara’a 97.1%. Bara’a and Aseel are planning to […]
Read moreSecurity for the future
2015 has been the Trust’s tenth anniversary year. To mark this we set out to raise £50,000 to establish a fund to secure school and higher education scholarships for the next five years as a continuation of our very successful collaboration with the Dar el Tifl Girls School in East Jerusalem. As a result of […]
Read moreSupporters barn dance
For the second year in a row DSMT supporters on the Isle of Wight held a barn dance raising almost £1,000 for the Trust. This included an auction prize offered by Suzanne (pictured left) to cook a Middle Eastern themed meal for eight people. Service was provided on the night from Suzanne’s friends Rebecca, Kelly […]
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