Recreational trip for women funded by USAID

The ‘Maakum’ social association organized a "cultural" field trip to Jarabta and Rashana located in Batroon and Bsharri as part of the ‘English for women-2015’ program financed by the Diplomatic Bureau at the American Embassy in Beirut. Some 150 women participants from different regions across Lebanon took part in the activity and visited St Joseph Monastery and the Shrine of St Rafka where a tree was planted at the main entrance upon the initiative of US Ambassador David Hill. The participants later headed towards the village of Rashana and visited the Alfred Basboos Museum, and were later hosted for a luncheon in the area. (Al Mustaqbal, 30 June 2015)