HEALTH PROMOTING GROUPS:

• The project of school-based health education included a component to motivate and enable school students to participate and be engaged as health promoters in their schools, families and communities.
• Groups of 5 to 6 talented and socially active boys and girls were selected from a number of schools in the 22 governorates.
• The selected students attended a series of capacity building camps in order to make them capable of designing and implementing health promoting activities as owners and initiators.
• The project was implemented during the period 2011 till 2016.
• The success stories are tremendous, amazing and remarkable. They demonstrate the vast potential of adolescents to be creative, conductive and productive once they are given the opportunity to demonstrate their potentials.
• Longitudinal follow up of a number of these brilliant young people showed that they all achieved substantial academic gains.