بيان اعلامي = Press Release

بالشراكة مع Hack/Hackers الأمريكية

مؤسسة بيت النور تطلق كتيب "مسرد البقاء على قيد الحياة"

عدن – خاص :

أطلقت مؤسسة بيت النور, بالشراكة مع Hack/Hackers الأمريكية, كتيب "مسرد البقاء على قيد الحياة " الذي يحوي عددا من أهم الكلمات التي يتم تداولها في مجالي الصحافة والإنترنت, حيث يصنف كخارطة طريق للصحافة و الإنترنت.

ويأتي إطلاق الكتيب بعد مبادرة قامت بها Hack/Hackers بتجميع أهم المفردات والكلمات الشائعة الاستخدام في مجالي الصحافة والإنترنت, لتقوم مؤسسة بيت النور بترجمتها إلى اللغة العربية, نظرا لأهميتها, ولغرض إثراء المحتوى العربي وتعزيز العمل الصحفي.

تجدر الإشارة إلى أن Hack/Hackers هي عبارة عن مجموعة من الأشخاص الذي يعملون لمساعدة الآخرين على إحداث تغيير في عالمهم وتبذل جهدها في تصغير الهوة بين المجالين, فيما تقوم, تكنولوجياً, بعرض ونشر وفرز المعلومات بالإضافة إلى الحصول على القصص ونشرها, في حين أن مؤسسة بيت النور هي مؤسسة غير حكومية، مستقلة. تنطلق من مدينة عدن، وتهدف إلى التأثير وإحداث تغيير اجتماعي إيجابي في المجتمع من خلال إيجاد قيادات فاعلة، وبناء القدرات بما يتواكب مع التنمية ومتطلباتها.

ويمكن للجميع الحصول على نسخة مجانية من الكتيب عبر الولوج للرابط التالي http://bit.ly/asuTnY

لمزيد من المعلومات ... فضلاً يرجى الإتصال بنا :

نشوان محمد العثماني
المسئول الإعلامي – مؤسسة بيت النور
البريد الإلكتروني : houseoflight.fdn@Gmail.com

In partnership with Hack/Hackers

House of Light Foundation released booklet “Survival Glossary”

Aden - in particular:

House of Light Foundation released, in partnership with Hack/Hackers, the “the Survival Glossary” that includes a number of the most essential words that are commonly used in the fields of journalism and internet which is classified as Road Map for both.

The booklet comes after an initiative achieved by Hack/Hackers to gather all terms and common words used in both journalism and internet. Then House of Light Foundation translated it into Arabic as it is vitally important to enrich the Arabic content and reinforce Arab journalism.

It is important to mention that Hack/Hackers is a group of people in the US, working to help others make a difference in their world. They do their best to bridge the gap between the two fields (journalism and internet) through illustrating and distributing information and obtaining stories to publish them, while House of Light Foundation is an independent non-governmental organization, that is launched from Aden city and aims to inspire and place a positive social change in the community through finding effective leaderships and build capacities along with development and its demands.

For interested people in getting a free copy of booklet, please click this link http://bit.ly/asuTnY

More information… Please contact us:

Nashwan Al-Othmani

Media Officer – House of Light Foundation

eMail: houseoflight.fdn@Gmail.com

Dear Grandpa

Fearing for me to get hurt , he holds my wrest tightly , when we cross the street. He taps on my head when I act politely and feeds me by his hand till I bite his fingers. He never smiles at me neither he cries. And when we drifted apart he embraced me as if he wanted to let me go, so that I do not see him weak, as if tears will make him less humane. Always his words are encouraging me to take care of myself and others as a soldier protecting his land. And when I was just younger , he promised to bring me everything I dreamed of. His serious facial expressions and attitude never made me fear him, but love him more. And the more he is away , the more I remember being with him as a piece of feather , fragile , flying, free and always fine.

facts on women

Women in cultures have been very abused and stigmatized with bad luck and superstitions. In every culture we see women humiliated and taken by granted that fate made them just as they are : witches , bad luck dispensers and waste humans.

Before Islam, Arabs used to burry their daughters alive as they were frightened of being ashamed of having a girl not a boy. There were many stories of fathers burying their daughters alive so that they live with honor. It was a type of honor killing to preserve dignity of the tribe man at that era.

There are other practices to preserve the so called honor. In some African traditions, girls are tortured and may be led to death by circumcision. The reason is because families want to preserve honor and in this way , they think, that they protect their honor. The girls are placed, or rather buried in a hole in a dusty land. This hole will be linked to another hole by a channel to stream camel dung and sawdust into the girl's hole, as the myth says it relieves the pain caused by circumcision wounds. After that, they tie the girl's legs so that she can not move and can not itch on the place of pain in her body. So another practice that humiliate females as it is believed that they are source of dishonor.

We claim to be more tolerant with women and precisely more accepting to the fact that they can be great partners, but I guess a lot of " the advocates " for this idea from the other gender still need to comprehend a very important issue about women. Women are not tools , puppet dolls nor entertainers. Women are not shadow creatures nor passive persons. Women are not appetizers nor food . They are not bad luck , nor they are charmed . They are only meant to be beside males to fight together , build this life and be successors on earth .

Who moved my cheese -Review

Who moved my cheese was the title of the book review I read. Within 2 mice and 2 elves, the story took place examining people’s ability to tolerate sudden change. Some of us turn on the coping mechanism right after sensing change, while others speed away to follow change. Others prefer to seek possibilities in maintaining current situation before admitting to change. However, there are some of us who act as stubborn as rocks that prefer to be broken into pieces rather than follow the change parade. The latter type is the worst as they prevent themselves of seeing the change and how it impacts their cheese, or per say their life.
In some circumstances, we tend not to change the direction of our way, and make it as a routine, while our enthusiasm towards the goal gradually faints without our intention. Then, suddenly we face insecure situation of goal-less feeling and eventually blames every moving and not moving things around us. This feeling can take quite time to accompany some people , while others , wake up to realize the situation and quickly set a new goal accompanying change as a tactic for their wellness.
Change is not an easy process nor does it have a speedy recovery mechanism. It is simply a status of a person in which he needs to react towards his own good with the ability to adapt, adopt and balance our opportunities with needs and make wise decisions within limited time.

Press Release

On the occasion of World Day for Social Media,

House of Light Foundation issues the first e-book Twitter guide for all users

Exclusive:

be On the occasion of International Day for the "social media", which is decided to celebrated on June 30, House of Light Foundation is pleased to release its first e- under the title of Twitter guide for all users, prepared by the Executive Director of the Foundation Sahar Saeed Nuraddin.

The Foundation said in a press release that Twitter guide for all users is a simplified guide that provides assistance to Arab users to interact with twitter in the context of the new media or social media in a simplified and useful way. The guide includes a collection of information supported with pictures that show how to set an account and interact with it as well as how to get into twitter in business.

The guide is considered the first edition of House of Light Foundation, through which it aims to enrich the Arabic content with books that strengthen Arabic interaction with social media tools.

The association has clarified through its press that whoever is interested in obtaining a copy of the e-book, kindly contact the foundation through its email:

houseoflight.fdn@gmail.com

House of light foundation is an independent non-governmental organization, which aims to influence and bring about positive social change in society through the creation of effective leadership, and capacity building to cope with the development and its requirements.

Unbeaten

Tough , resilient , tangible and sound as Scottish drums. Deeply rooted in earth womb with an ugly look , rough and harsh. The sun burns its surface and it stands as a mount , while winds slap its skin , leaving it hard and full of fork-like pieces of wood. It seems as if it forgets its purpose and aim of being on earth and has become only a thing that looks like a living thing. But , still , unbeaten.

This seat reminds people of victims of abuse or let's say it properly: survivors of abuse. As people smuggling to seek a good life , reaching the unknown shores after a sea trip, half of which was on boat under dignity and the other half was under the boat to wash up and polish dignity.

Or villagers reaching the city for the first time, seeing and admiring even the road boards. After few time struggling in the city , they lose interest, lose appetite to living there , lose linkage with the village and loosen in the middle of the trip between city and village.

Or as immigrants when they travel to a new country , start a family, business and life. However, they burry their identity under where they put their feet and become free of identity as if it were a virus or infectious disease . Eventually , they lose ability even to identify who they are and the pain and guilt that they feel become their identity.

Or as a child , holding bunch of fainting roses , begging people to buy in the street with bare feet and nearly bare body as well. No one notices his bare stomach that did not eat for days or his shivering words when he speaks. All what people know about him is to push him away , ride cars with speed so that dirty water flashes on his face due to wheels' rapid movement. Or if they are polite enough , they will avoid seeing him as if he is a big annoying fly.

Empty Wet Bench

In a rainy evening , I stayed under the rain without a shade , a shelter or even a cover. I was waiting and waiting , alone waiting in the downtown area .Waiting for them to come as they promised . However , it seems they will not come. May be because I am too far to reach or they are too far to meet. May be they changed the plan and decided to meet else where .Or may be they are stuck in traffic , each one in one side of the busy city. Or , may be it is too cold to meet under rain in rainy evening , while each one had a long day and has a long day going to catch. All in all , they did not come to meet , but I hope that they justified for each other the reason why they did not meet or at least , in the worst cases, they postponed their date into another date , to a time when the sky is clear and shinning with light and weather is not cold.