Ahed Zaher Alshawish

Ahed today

Hi, I am Ahed Zaher Alshawish. I worked with the Hands Up project since primary school, and among the various activities in which I participated were plays and online meetings, as well as work within schools in terms of cultural clubs for extracurricular activities.

I can say that working within the scope of these activities was quite a wonderful experience because from my point of view I acquired new skills and developed my old skills, including reading, writing, and speaking fluently, and of course these activities increased my confidence in speaking in English in meetings and councils in front of people and developed my vocabulary, so it was a special experience and I am very happy to join in participating with them.

Of course I do not forget my teachers’ support for me in these activities, which was an important part, so all thanks to them. This year, I finished high school with a grade point average of 91.3 from the scientific stream, and currently this month I joined the university in English Language Arts Minor Translation , and I can say that I joined this major because of my love for the English language and that it is close to me, and because I also graduated from the Access Scholarship affiliated with the AMIDEAST . I aspire to obtain distinction degrees in my university major and to obtain a scholarship to travel abroad to develop myself more and more.

Ahed leading the live remote performance of the ‘Jbene chant’ from her school in Gaza to the audience at the 2017 IATEFL conference in Glasgow.