News of Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah of Zahle

Since the founding of the kindergarten in 1946, Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah has followed a special plan: opening the kindergarten at the beginning of spring, with the school holiday falling in the winter season. As usual, school began on the first of April, at the coming of spring and the beautiful weather in Zahle, the bride of Lebanon. The mothers have felt the opportunity the kindergarten offers them, and the double benefit of having their children under the care and attention of specialist teachers, so the number of children has grown perceptibly — the school's three rooms can hardly hold them. Yet the economic squeeze that is tightening its grip on the country in general, and on Zahle in particular, has greatly affected the society's resources in subscriptions and donations, and it finds itself with bound hands before the expansion demanded by the cultural and educational need which this kindergarten fills.

The society has a full program for the days ahead, including the showing of a special film on the child and the method of raising him and caring for him; and also a grand oratorical celebration for the famous American writer Dorothy Thompson, president of the society of the Friends of the Arabs in America, who is visiting the East for the second time — a longer visit that will enable her to make it known more and more to the millions of her American readers. This issue will scarcely reach its readers before the society has completed this program and begun preparations for the summer festivities and for receiving the great number of compatriots who deserve celebration and honor.