Damascus, with power to establish branches in the other Syrian cities; its president is Mrs. Adila Bayram al-Jaza'iri. It has taken upon itself the opening of numerous schools, secondary and elementary, with boarding sections, and kindergartens. It finances its projects out of school fees, government grants, the proceeds of functions, and lotteries. In certain circumstances it renders assistance to the poor; its schools also include a number of girl pupils exempted from school fees, and others at a fixed reduction. Among its chief purposes is to rear the Arab girl soundly and to give her a national upbringing.
Founded in 1944; its president is Mrs. Alice Qandalaft. It strives to bring woman to her full political rights, to realize the Arab national aims, to help the Palestinian refugees, and to spur women to work in the national causes and to raise national consciousness in their ranks.
Founded in 1945; its president is Miss Afaf al-Yusuf. It aims at the spread of learning and the fight against illiteracy; at providing poor children with the books and clothing they need; at furnishing work for poor women by teaching them handcrafts; and at comforting wretched families in quiet want. Among its aims also are the raising of the level of the villages, their revival, and the furnishing of them with all manner of health and social counsel.
Founded in 1945; its president is Mrs. Zahra al-Abid; its character is purely literary. It has
Founded in 1922; its president is Mrs. Sara Mu'ayyad. Its purpose is the raising of woman's literary and cultural level, the
delivery of lectures, the holding of functions, the distribution of food and clothing in all manner of circumstances, the assistance of the men of the Syrian army, and the education of a group of boys at the club's expense.
periodic meetings at which literary lectures are delivered; it brings together an elite of men and women of letters who take up in them all manner of subjects of prose and poetry.
This institution was established in 1941; its president is Mrs. Marie Jallad. The chief aims of this association are the feeding of poor youngsters of all communities, and the supervision of the course of their growth by periodic medical inspection, visiting their families to look into their manner of living, mending what has gone wrong in their upbringing, following up their illnesses, stamping out the contagious among them, and providing the treatment and care they require.
Damascus Tal'at al-Rifa'i Inspector of Labor and Social Affairs in the Ministry of National Economy
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