Card Order
|
.
P.O. box 19796, Jerusalem 91017
Tel. 02-628-2062, FAX 02- 6287842
What Does Rawdat
El-Zuhur Mean?
"
Garden of Flowers" is the meaning of Rawdat El-Zuhur.
This is exactly what Elizabeth Nasir wanted the home to be. A garden of
happy girls looking like flowers and radiating with joy and love. Music
and dancing were the first activities she exposed the girls to, for she
strongly believed in the magic of music and its power to lift the
spirits
of those girls and to help replace the tears of destitution with a
happy
smile. The first piece of equipment she purchased for the home was a
manual
record player and she became the talk of the town as she skipped and
danced
with the bare-footed girls all over the courtyard. In 1955, Elizabeth
Nasir
was awarded a special certificate from the National Recreation
Association
of the USA for "Enriching the Human Spirit through Recreation." Music,
folk dancing and art still play a very big role in the lives of the
children
of Rawdat El-Zuhur School. The founding spirit continues to prevail
with
the same enthusiasm for caring and sharing. No hurt or health problem
goes
untreated, no individual joy goes uncelebrated by teachers and pupils
together
trying to ease the tension that encompasses the whole community.
|
