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Rahat Meeting

Today, June 1st, we held a meeting at the Rahat Municipality aimed at presenting the center to the professional level and examining the city’s needs and how cooperation can be created.
The meeting was attended by Saeed Al-Obra, Director of the Welfare Department, Gamal Al-Huzayl, Director of the Education Department, Jihad Al-Finesh, Director of the Strategic Planning Department, Ibrahim Abu Sahiban, City Engineer
Masalem Amrani, Health Department, Wahid Al-Sana’, Community Security, Municipality Spokesperson and two deputies.
Topics raised:
Importance of conducting panel surveys every year in the field, employment, salary levels, personal security.
The issue of violence: Is there a connection between the income level in the city and violence, is there a connection between overcrowding and violence, and living in high-rise buildings.
Planning: The population’s attitudes towards high-rise construction, whether high-rise buildings are for residence or for rent outside the city. The consequences of overcrowding.
Health: High rates of diabetes, especially among teenagers, in the transition from elementary to high school
Infant nutrition, life expectancy, latent diabetes, energy drink consumption, smoking among teenagers.
Education: Young people’s attitudes towards integration into STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
The quality of the high school diploma, what happens to students who graduate from high school after 5 years, by school.
Characteristics of unemployed young people
The relationship between dropout and parental education, socioeconomic status, etc.
Transition from high school to high school, what are the factors for success.