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Tanweer Center

Culture for change. A centre for children's education and culture in Beit Ummar, Hebron.

See our activities Visit the centre

Students painting in watercolour, part of the Liberated Sky strand.
A session of the Al-Khwarizmi course, run again after demand for a second intake.
Stones painted in gouache by children during a Let's Read session, left to dry on a ledge outside.
Folded paper models made during the Excellence summer camp.

From the centre's record

  • 112 women trained in small projects, initiatives and job skills, with the Palestinian Child's Home Club January 2025
  • 150 + 150 school bags and cloth bags with stationery, donated through Palestine Children's Relief September 2025
  • 50 food parcels of 140 shekels each, given out in Ramadan Ramadan 2024
  • 35 families given financial and in-kind help in Ramadan Ramadan 2025
  • 72 olive and forest saplings planted on Land Day, with the Youth Council and the municipality Land Day 2021

Each number links to the centre's own post that reported it.

What the centre does

Tanweer Center runs classrooms, a library and a workshop for children in Beit Ummar. Its work covers foundational literacy and numeracy, recovery from learning loss, languages, robotics and computing, arts and theatre, and psychosocial support.

It has been open since September 2017 and registered as an association since 2019.

Where it works

The centre is on Al-Tarbiqa Street in Beit Ummar, Hebron Governorate.

A reading-campaign session around the table in the centre's stone room.

Programmes

  • Foundational literacy and numeracy, and learning-loss recovery in Arabic, English and maths
  • English conversation, in certificated levels
  • Robotics (since January 2018) and computing
  • Physics and maths for secondary students
  • German A1, toward the Goethe exam
  • The Friends of the Book library (opened January 2022) and the Recovery through Stories series
  • Arts
  • Theatre
  • Psychosocial support
  • Qur'an recitation
  • Summer camps

Come and see the centre

On Al-Tarbiqa Street in Beit Ummar, Hebron Governorate.