IMS “soft skills” program is offered to grade 10 students. Girls are carefully chosen to participate in the 180 hours training program, receiving a certificate of completion at the end of the program. The aim of this platform is support girls to get ready for the career selection pathway in the following year (grade 11). Through the formal sessions (workshops, lectures, etc.), and informal sessions (mentoring sessions), we help them know better their personalities, temperament, natural talents and skills they would like to acquire in the future. Using active learning methods, educational games, workshops and quizzes, girls become proactive and start acquiring mini habits that help us together define ‘who they are’ and where they want to be in the future.
Examples of workshops we have already delivered:
Emotional Intelligence: “How to use your emotions wisely?”
Leadership skills: “How to become good leaders in your communities?”
The power of mini habits: “How can they change your lives and help your reach your goals?”
Alongside other workshops, trainings and activities, girls learn good study and reading skills, hospitality services, by taking part in cooking, housekeeping and restaurant courses. The objective of the Hospitality & Management short courses is assisting them to develop responsibility inside their households, by working in teams which strongly improve their team work skills.
As IMS’s main mission is to re-inverse the strong trend of migration, mainly from the rural areas, a way to do it is by using Tourism as a tool to expand job opportunities. Therefore, along with our educational mission of helping girls identify themselves as leaders in their communities, we expose them to the hospitality sector which has a high job demand in Lebanon, yet few people know about it.
