Program Objectives:
- Raising level of Islamic Awareness (Information).
- Growing the sense of rooting & celebrating the Muslim Identity in the minds & hearts of the young youth.
- Developing the youth personal skills (intellectual, leadership, etc.)
- Creating a youth support group as buddies enjoying strong social and inter- personal relationships.
- Utilizing the youth latent energy in useful & productive projects.
- Rooting & empowering the sense of citizenship & volunteerism & activism.
- To provide the boys with an opportunity for fun and leisure within an Islamic environment.
- To instill basic spiritual education (tarbiyah) in the boys indirectly via interaction and directly via programmatic activities, to be complemented by the MAS Quran Institute program.
Program Contents:
A) Educational Part
B) Activities Part (Spiritual, Sports, Entertainment, Services)
A) Educational Part:
- Arabic Reading & Quran Recitation.
- Stories of Muslim Heroes (Learnt Lessons).
- Studying & Discussing Islamic occasions (Learnt Lessons).
B) Activities Part:
- Sports (tournaments, open gym, swimming, etc.)
- Entertainment & Fun (fishing, skating, one-day-trip, etc.)
- Social Gatherings (sleep-over, exchanging house visitations, etc.)
- Spiritual (Masjid Sleep-Over, etc.)
- Social & Community services (neighborhood tree plantation, food bank volunteerism, meat distribution, back-to-school backbag gifts, hospitals visits, etc.)
For more information, please contact: JuniorYouth@masurbana-champaign.org.