While returning to schools, mothers’ talks abound in summer suffering; The children spent the leave between the night and sleep sleep, without activity and no benefit, especially for the families that did not travel. Undoubted life, unhealthy eating habits, and laziness exhausts them at the beginning of the school year.
These stories brought me back a little, as the scene was completely different; The summer in the past was a season for work, boys and girls seized opportunities, working even a few days to collect an amount that helps them buy study requirements or buy their supplies and their own needs or even help parents. These small experiences were making great habits; Responsibility, discipline, and a sense of the value of every dinar, so that many of them started with a small and limited trade and less, but he succeeded in converting them into large and influential companies and institutions.
Today, this spirit returns again through an initiative launched by the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the year 2022 under the title “Try working”. The idea is simple, but it is deep; Training school students from 14 to 18 years old within private sector institutions, to live the work experience as they are, with its small details and real challenges. Today, after four years of application, the program quickly turned from an experiment to a basic station that young people are waiting for every summer. It is noteworthy that the initiative was not just a transient summer activity, but rather a project that has great care and attention, so that His Highness Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad
Al Khalifa stressed, during his reception of students participating in the fourth edition recently, as a qualitative step to prepare a generation capable of competition, and that it reflects the concept of community partnership in its most beautiful forms. The impact of the program goes beyond technical or vocational training. In fact, he is a practical lesson in discipline, adherence to dates, dealing with a real team, and understanding the meaning of responsibility. These are things that are not taught in books, but they are only acquired from the field.
The most beautiful is that the private sector did not deal with the initiative as a heavy duty, but rather as a real partnership. Companies and institutions opened their doors to students, and provided them with an environment learning and incubating, to confirm that their role exceeds numbers and budgets, to the actual participation in making future generations.
“Try working” a clear message for the youth of Bahrain; The future begins with a small step, and perhaps two weeks of summer work. Who knows? A young man may discover his passion in a field he did not think at all, or builds the first professional relationship network later.
In short, we are facing a national initiative that redefines the summer, and turns free time into an opportunity to build oneself. If this approach continues, Bahrain will gain a more aware and disciplined generation, ready to face the challenges of life with confidence and determination.
