“Together We Make Change”

“Together We Make Change”

Hala Muhammad is a volunteer with INJAZ Palestine at the Muscat Salfit Primary Boys School.

Hala has implemented the “This is Our Nation” training program, which is one of INJAZ Palestine programs. It aims at spreading the culture of leadership, entrepreneurship and free trade, and at showing students how they can build a project that may one day have a great social and economic impact. I thus asked each group to build a project that they might have been dreaming about by noting it down on paper and in this exercise, I was shocked to discover the ideas and the negative trends these groups reflected on paper. 

Hala started working with students again, she showed the educational side first, and then moved to the most important point, which is INJAZ programs through which Hala was able to open the students’ minds and encourage them to move forward with their ideas towards developing their interest in the field of entrepreneurship. Benefiting from the activities that she carried out with the students, she succeeded in changing their thinking and in developing their entrepreneurial ideas and working with them until the point where INJAZ classes became the relatively more important ones in the academic schedule of those students in this class.

During the evaluation session implemented by INJAZ Palestine, the school principal requested an increase in the number of classes through which INJAZ would carry out its programs inside the school. The principal also suggested that it would be a good idea to invite the students’ mothers to a small meeting in which Hala would talk about her experience with the students. She would also tell the mothers how she successfully changed the ideas of their children and how she introduced them to this broad field of program development that would help them in their future business endeavors.