Community library as a pedal to community education and sustainable development

Trust Programs offers various services to marginalized groups in Palestinian society, especially to villages located in the North West region of Jerusalem. These villages are situated behind the Annexation Wall which isolates them from the other urban areas, making it difficult to access transport or to attain social services with closures and check-points restricting movement. People in these villages also have no or limited access to schools and other educational institutions. Beginning with this scenario, Trust Programs continued for the second year working with village communities to establish a community school in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Education (MOE). At a later stage the school established a community library in Al-Jeeb Village as a model, which was copied by other villages in the area. The paper will present the development of the community library of Al Jeeb, beginning with the Mother-to-Mother program which aims to raise awareness of mothers and families in the importance of education for their children and to prepare families for the entry of their children to schools. With the success of the first program a second one, Learn by play, was introduced through the community library. This program is based on the premise that every child has the right to learn, is considered a prerequisite for entry to other community based programs and as a lever for life-long learning. The program aims at limiting illiteracy and decreasing the dropout rate from schools and operates on three levels which involve parents, teachers and young women volunteers, with the child as the centre of the activity, thus creating relationships based on cooperation and understanding to work for the child's best interest.

信托项目（Trust Programs）为巴勒斯坦社会中的边缘群体提供各类服务，尤其聚焦耶路撒冷西北部地区的乡村。这些村庄坐落于吞并隔离墙（Annexation Wall）后方，与其他城区相互隔绝，加之管控人员通行的封锁措施与检查站限制，当地民众难以获取交通资源与社会服务。同时，这些村庄的民众几乎无法或仅能有限地获取学校及其他教育机构的就学机会。
基于此背景，信托项目（Trust Programs）已连续第二年与乡村社区合作，联合巴勒斯坦教育部（MOE）创办社区学校。后续，该项目依托学校在杰伊卜村（Al-Jeeb Village）设立了社区图书馆作为示范样板，随后被该区域其他村庄效仿。
本论文将阐述杰伊卜村社区图书馆的发展历程，其起始于母亲互助计划（Mother-to-Mother program）——该计划旨在提升母亲与家庭对子女教育重要性的认知，并帮助家庭做好子女入学的准备工作。该首项计划取得成功后，社区图书馆又推出了第二项计划：寓学于乐（Learn by play）。
该计划以“每个儿童都享有学习权利”为核心前提，被视为参与其他社区类项目的前置条件，同时也是推动终身学习的重要杠杆。本计划旨在降低文盲率与学生辍学率，从家长、教师及青年女性志愿者三个维度开展工作，以儿童为活动核心，由此构建起以合作与理解为基础的联动关系，一切工作均以保障儿童的最大利益为出发点。