Learning Never Ends is a campaign that contributes to reducing the schools dropping-out phenomena in Jerusalem.
Palvision launched this campaign with the slogan “Education Never Ends” to reduce school dropout phenomena, which has been significantly exacerbated recently in the Palestinian schools in East Jerusalem. With a set of objectives, Learning Never Ends campaign was launched to shed light on the dangerous side effects of schools dropping out phenomena in Jerusalem and to raise the awareness of the Palestinian society about its negative effect on the Palestinian education sector. Moreover, the campaign advocated for an official intervention in which Palestinian decision makers’ were demanded to take the initiative in adopting the reduction polices of the students dropout phenomena to overcome the problems that are causing an increase in the percentage of the students’ dropout from Jerusalem schools.
This campaign which was organized within Hirak project was designed to tackle the phenomenon of Jerusalemite students’ dropout from their schools in East Jerusalem. In conjunction with the increase in the schools students’ dropout percentage of 13% per year compared with 1% in West Jerusalem schools. According to specialists, this rate of dropping-out is considered to be a dangerous indicator flashes at the Palestinian education sector in Jerusalem. Moreover, amid the raise of the onslaught of spreading ignorance system that is pursued by the occupying state and its authorities against the Palestinian education system in Jerusalem and the Palestinian education curricula in an effort to Judaize and distort its content. It’s noteworthy that the campaign had circulated hashtag #Learnin_Never_Ends through social media pages to mobilize the Palestinian public support for the campaign messages and objectives and contribute to the dissemination and the achievements of its goals.