Education

Almost every class of the adult culinary arts diploma program offered at the Episcopal Technological and Vocational Training Center (ETVTC) in Ramallah includes a few women. Some are housewives who want to supplement family income by starting a home cooking or baking business. Others, like...

Updates from the West Bank, Gaza, and Zarqa, Jordan Episcopal Vocational and Technological Training Center (ETVTC) in Ramallah “We are glad to let you know that despite all the challenges that the world is facing through this pandemic, we at ETVTC are managing with full...

For years, Giovanni Anbar, the founder and director of the Episcopal Technological and Vocational Training Center (ETVTC) in Ramallah, has depended on the Center’s guesthouse for a steady income stream to cover operating expenses.  Before the pandemic, ETVTC’s ten-room guesthouse offered students in the hospitality...

As our brothers and sisters across the Holy Land live with the threat of a widespread COVID-19 outbreak, they also must negotiate the devastating impact that intermittent shutdowns and the disappearance of tourism have had on the economies in the region. In recent months, American...

Supporting the schools of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem is at the heart of AFEDJ’s mission. Whether it’s the progressive, academic schools where the Christian values imparted help to form the leaders of the next generation, the vocational schools that prepare non-traditional learners and vulnerable...

Dua’a Bisharat, principal of Saviour’s Episcopal School in Zarqa, Jordan, talks with AFEDJ’s John Lent about the mission of the school and current conditions in Jordan. The conversation took place via Zoom on July 7, 2020. Saviour’s Episcopal School is a progressive K-12 school in...

Ibrahim Faltas, general director of the Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre (JPBC), talks with AFEDJ’s John Lent about current conditions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and how JPBC has adapted the services it offers amidst the pandemic and economic shutdown. JPBC is an internationally-accredited...

What’s it like right now in Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, Israel, and Jordan? Ramallah, West BankArab Evangelical Episcopal SchoolAs with other schools in the West Bank, AEES, a K-12 academic school, moved to online instruction for its 840 students in March when the Palestinian...

$75,000 will equip 30 classrooms with state-of-the-art technology at Christ Episcopal School in Nazareth The first teachers who came to teach in Nazareth in 1851 wouldn’t recognize the 21st Century classrooms at Christ Episcopal School. Learning opportunities for the 1,200 students at Christ School will...