Education is an important investment for our children, and it is something that the Arab Cultural and Community Center in California has been working hard on since the start of its youth program.

This year in cooperation with from the American Association of Yemeni Scientists and Professionals (AAYSP), a college preparation program is born. The aim of this program is to help students whose parents did not go to college see college as an attainable goal they can reach.

It’s difficult for many students to see a clear road map for college. The first phase of this program is intensive workshops on the different aspects of college. The first of these workshops was “Getting to know your School’s College and Career Center”.

In this workshop, the ACCC and AAYSP mentors took high and middle school students to nearby universities and showed them how important of a resource it is. Next was “The Differences between 2 and 4-year Colleges and Which One is Right for you”. In this workshop mentors went into the details of community, state and U.C college systems. Afterwards, went on to discuss how to pay for College with FAFSA forms/Scholarships and other funding.

On the 16th of December, the American Association of Yemeni Scientists and Professionals held an educational workshop at Frontier High School, Hamtramck in coordination with the 21st Century Program sponsored by the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, ACCESS. The workshop was attended by a large number of students from the school and the 21st Century program teachers and administrators.The program’s supervisor and teacher, Ms. Ghazaleh Beydoun welcomed the Association members for coming.

Adel Mozip, President of the AAYSP Michigan Chapter spoke to students about the importance of higher education and a college degree. He then went to explain how he went through high school and college given that he was a newcomer to the U.S. when he started college.  Adel stressed the importance of finishing education  since it’s the only way to change one’s lives to the better. Adel then explained how to discover colleges, scholarships, and financial aid.
 

California chapter was proud to have Mr.Rasheed Alnozili, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Yemeni American News and Mr. Mohamed AL-dues, a consultant at the Yemeni American Net, as our guest speakers.

Mr. Al-dues gave a vrey inspiring speech in which he focused on promoting self pride and the importance of being a valuable productive member within the larger community. Mr Alnozili introduced the Yemeni American News to the audience and shared videos summarizing the Yemeni American News progress and history .