touch is proud to renew partnership with Bassma Association following impressive academic results touch, the leading mobile telecommunications and data operator in Lebanon, managed by Zain Group, announced its partnership renewal with Bassma Association after the outstanding success of the Night School Program, in which 95% of students passed their 2017/2018 academic year. touch is extending the partnership for a second phase in the 2018/2019 academic year, directly benefiting 60 public school students from EB7, EB8, and EB9. Participating students come from underprivileged families and face learning difficulties at school.

An official visit to the night school premises in Ain El Remmaneh shall be organized before the end of January. The Night School Program offers courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, French and Arabic. The program aims to ensure a secure environment in which students can achieve academic progress, develop new skills and capacities, and bridge any learning deficiencies. The program is also focused on making sure students succeed in their academic year and official exams (Brevet). Commenting on the partnership renewal, Emre Gurkan, Chief Executive Officer of touch said, “touch’s partnership with Bassma is well-aligned with our own corporate sustainability program, Positive touch, which has a keen focus on youth and educational development. Supporting Bassma to help underprivileged children successfully complete their academic year, transform their lives, and have them gain confidence in a bid to break the cycle of poverty is a mandate we happily and proudly sign up to.”

Sandra Klat Abdelnour, President of BASSMA commented too “we should never say a child in unable to learn and succeed. Give him/her a safe, healthy and warm environment to learn in, the right tools, pedagogical teachers, and they will do miracles! Thanks to the precious support and involvement of touch we have been able to witness these miracles, as hopeless case students enrolled in BASSMA’s night school all succeeded at the end of their academic year, after only six months of intensive courses! Therefore, all children are able to learn and succeed, they only need the opportunity to do so".

Established in 2002, Bassma Association is a non-profit humanitarian organization for social development based in Lebanon. Its mission is to empower the most deprived families to reach self-sufficiency. In addition to courses, Bassma also provides transportation, learning material, meals and psychological follow up.