The University of Basrah this morning started the opening of a new youth project entitled (Al-Manara Camp at the University of Basrah) to train, develop and qualify students, graduates and youth to set up projects and of both sexes.
Regarding the university's support for the launch of its summer training camp in its first season, Dr. Ali Hussein Reshak, assistant to the university president for scientific affairs, said, "The camp provides students and graduates with the introduction to opening small and medium private projects in order to improve the living conditions for them and their families, and the University of Basrah will supervise their training and development and provide them with the necessary practical expertise and ensure that these projects are compatible with the needs of the labor market in terms of goods and jobs, and for this we have prepared all the possibilities for the success of the project by providing training cadres and sound, image and montage laboratories for those wishing to learn the profession of audiovisual media. In addition to providing consultant professors specialized in economics, studying the feasibility of establishing projects and following up the steps for their success, as well as developing the capabilities of trainees in acquiring foreign languages and computer programming to meet the requirements of jobs in the labor market these days, and all the capabilities of the university will be available to them in addition to support material.”
About the circumstances of the establishment of the project and the stages of work on it, its young founder, Mahmoud Miqdad Al-Basri, said, “after many efforts and challenges, we were able, and with God’s help, to open this huge project, to which hundreds or even thousands of students and graduates will join. We decided to call it “Al-Manara” in relation to the radiation and light it provides that the rest of the youth can follow. What distinguishes this camp and its training program from previous youth programs or institutes for development and vocational education is the follow-up of the trainees in establishing their projects and not giving them practical training sessions and participation certificates only, and I am sure that those projects that we will develop and work to make them succeed and perpetuate for the trainees joining the project this season will be a beacon for the rest of the Basri youth to imitate, and we will make of them professionals and true pioneers in their projects in the sense of the beacon that we mean.
Al-Basri added - We have set a period of one and a half months for the project, which starts from the seventh of August until the fifteenth of next September, to work on implementing the plan, which consists of seven main stages, starting from receiving applications for setting up projects, through training and consultation on its work mechanism until its completion. Al-Manara project will also provide additional training related to the development and professionalization of the art of public relations, which is a main focus in the community’s interaction with the element of product marketing, and who will participate with us from students, graduates and youth, and our doors are open for registration in the project now, and the applicants for this year’s camp will definitely be a training element that provides experience to their colleagues in the upcoming second season of the 2024 project who will tell us about the success story of their project. We will work in this season to provide all the reasons for the trainees that enable them to be successful entrepreneurs and owners of real projects. We must change the negative perception in the mind of the Iraqi youth that relies on dependency and reliance on appointments in government jobs, and every student and graduate must be an employer and manager and not a marginalized subordinate waiting for his monthly salary that does not meet his aspirations for a better future for his family.
