If not for the College of Pilar, more than 200 Palestinian girls each year would not receive the quality education that they partake in today.
Most parents of these students can not afford the costs of schooling for their daughters, but that does not prevent them from attending the school.
It has been three years since the Palestinian girls from the College of Our Lady of the Pillar of Jerusalem began to enjoy the results of the “Literacy and peaceful coexistence among disadvantaged Palestinian girls of the Spanish College of Pilar in Jerusalem” program funded by the Fundación Reina Sofía and implemented through the FPSC in Jerusalem.
Within the peculiarity that defines the city of Jerusalem, the College of Pilar is seen as a special and unique item. Peaceful coexistence between Muslim and Christian Palestinian girls from completely different and complicated social environments, is a rare reality but one that exists in this school in the heart of the old city.
Since the beginning of the FRS program, which began in 2008, new students between the ages of 4 and 6 have joined the College to receive a full education. In total, about 186 students today are continuing their education at the College of Pilar.
School supplies, music lessons and math and religion classes, among other things, have been made possible through this program, which was successfully completed last July.