A network of centers dedicated to training, education, and Islamic development for youth, offering weekly programs throughout the year.

The Al-Huda Activity Project seeks to manage centers entrusted with conducting training, educational, and developmental sessions within an Islamic framework for young adults all year long.

This project was launched in 2020 with support from the office of Ayatollah Sheikh Bashir Hussain Al-Najafi (may his shadow last). By the end of summer 2024, the number of centers reached eight, spread across the provinces of Najaf and Basra.

These sessions are conducted by a team of 55 trainers from among conscious and responsible young believers and are attended by 450 young boys and girls.

The weekly activities include three hours of educational programs, skill development, sports, and purposeful field trips, averaging 37 weeks of activity throughout the year.

Features and Characteristics:

  1. Engaging Students Through Advanced Teaching Methods:
    Al-Huda Activity utilizes interactive and modern teaching approaches to design appealing educational and skill-building activities aimed at introducing youth to the teachings and values of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them).
  2. Addressing Adolescents’ Psychological and Physical Needs:
    Through engaging and scientifically grounded methods, students are drawn to actively participate in these weekly activities with enthusiasm.
  3. Peer Interaction and Role Models:
    With peers and trainers present as role models, these activities become meaningful, continuous, and appealing.
  4. Opportunity for Devout Shia Youth:
    Al-Huda Activity seeks to inspire and train young Shia believers as future trainers, helping them enhance their individual capabilities while promoting the teachings of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) through training sessions for trainees.
  5. Ease of Project Expansion:
    Several factors make the establishment and expansion of these centers cost-effective and impactful in education:
    • Focusing on establishing centers in areas where trainers and students are on an equal level.
    • Responding to the community’s need for these programs during summer vacations and the school year.
    • Continuous training and streamlined guidance for trainers on conducting sessions.
    • Low cost of these activities.
    • Leveraging volunteer opportunities.

Pre-planned Content:

Each educational activity requires content designed with specific objectives to ensure goal achievement and to aid trainers in gradually reaching their objectives.

Al-Huda Activity offers the following benefits:

  1. Ready-made content to cover 12 years of weekly sessions.
  2. Developed by a team of experienced religious trainers.
  3. Adjusted to suit Iraq’s environment after three years of testing.
  4. Fully aligned with current educational and psychological guidelines.
  5. Lesson plans are in the form of scenarios to facilitate teaching.
  6. Includes stories, examples, and educational games within the lesson plans.

Additional Features:

  1. Planning, monitoring, and supervising activity centers.
  2. Educational and recreational trips.
  3. Ongoing training for trainers.
  4. Use of modern technology systems.
  5. Reinforcing Shia identity and religious guidance.
  6. Learning through games and activities.