* Zainab Muhammad Al-Bishr: Our goal is to promote national identity and popular heritage
The Events Department at the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage announced the launch of Izbat Al Bush activities for this year, in cooperation with the Emirates Foundation for School Education, the Dubai Marine Sports Club, and the Dubai Ambulance, (Tuesday, December 20), which includes 42 students who were selected from those wishing to participate in a version This year, it is one of the activities of the winter camp, which will last until December 25.
This event confirms the center’s continuous role in finding new channels to inculcate national values among young people and spread awareness about the culture of the local community.
The students, aged between 10-16 years, were selected to work on promoting the principles and values of the popular heritage of the local community, such as ways of receiving the guest and how to welcome him, respecting and helping the elderly, honoring and obedience to parents. The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for Heritage Revival also works through activities Homestead, to train participants in how to
Dealing with the “mountain” and the methods of riding on it. They are also taught to throw a saktoun in Al-Rawiya Square of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage. In addition to that, they are trained and taught the basics and principles of yawla by the Director of Championships Department at the Center, Rashid Al-Khasouni, with the assistance of a number of coaches. The center, with the aim of developing and refining children’s skills educationally, culturally and physically.
This year’s edition includes many activities related to the country’s heritage and history, including visiting the library of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage, and attending the Al Maktoum Cup race for local rowing boats, so that the students will move on the evening of next Friday, December 23, to Al-Midan Castle in the heritage village in the Marmoum area to attend Al-Maidan 18 program for the Fazza Al-Yola Tournament, in addition to a special workshop on the basics of falconry.
Zainab Muhammad Al-Bishr, Head of the Cultural and Heritage Services Department, in the Events Department of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Center for the Revival of Heritage, said: “We organize this year’s events with greater ease, after completing the precautionary measures for the Covid 19 virus, as the safety and health of our children comes at the top of our priorities, and we work with every An effort to empower young people and teach them the local culture, the foundations of self-reliance, and other societal values that characterize our society in the United Arab Emirates. And the activities that we do in the estate, and we see daily the extent of the interaction of our children and their ability to respond to the consolidation of these societal values, such as camel riding, shooting and yawla.
Al-Bishr emphasized that the camp is an entertainment, heritage and cultural activity and a start towards more of these purposeful activities that contribute to raising a generation that adheres to its heritage and social legacies at an early age.