AMMAN —
Jordanian Rasha Abu Shakhdam won the
King Abdullah II Award for Youth
Achievement and Creativity for the project “Martha for Education”, which aims
to reduce illiteracy among people with hearing disabilities by providing deaf
children and their families with interactive educational solutions using
augmented reality technology and Arabic sign language, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
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The award, in its sixth edition, was presented by
former minister of higher education and scientific research
Wajih Owais during
the 11th Jordan Gaming Summit, which started on Saturday at the Dead Sea,
according to an announcement by the King Abdullah II Fund for Development.
The award was launched by His Majesty King Abdullah
during the World Economic Forum in 2007 to encourage creative Arab youths to
work to effect positive change in their local communities, and to honor young
Arab community leaders who came up with innovative solutions to meet local
challenges.
The award is granted once every two years and has
been bestowed on 41 young entrepreneurs from eight Arab countries in its past
five editions.
Four pioneering projects qualified for the final
stage this year. In addition to the winning project, there were also: “Drop”,
by Ahmed bin Amer Al-Jabri from Oman, which uses modern technologies to ration
water to irrigate crops; “Better for social development”, by Egyptian Haitham
Ali Khalifa, which seeks to economically empower marginalized groups,
especially women and small-scale farmers, through an optimal use of resources and
the introduction of recycling technology in agriculture; and “Zelij invent”, by
Seif Al-Din Al-Aj from Morocco, which aims to provide sustainable solutions for
waste recycling by producing environmentally-friendly building materials from
plastic waste.
Abu Shakhdam’s winning project was based on the idea of a
world in which every deaf child has access to education through
technology-enabled educational products and tools. She will receive $50,000 in
financial support to develop the project idea.
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