 My name is Dhania Awad. I'm the director of the Rahmah Foundation that puts on these programs for the girls. Our mission statement of the Rahmah Foundation is to educate Muslim women and girls in their Dean. We have to know that organization was incorporated. My guess is, if I remember correctly, back in 2007 or perhaps it was 2008. So some time ago now and soon thereafter we started programs for the girls here in this semester. We had started programs initially for women and then added programs for girls. And here at the MCC, we've been here in Marshall for about 12 years as our guests collectively. Between summer camps and between, sometimes they were Saturday holocausts, sometimes they were Friday holocausts. Over the years things changed. Now at this point in time they are Friday night holocausts for the girls, the young Muslima's holocaust programs. And they range from ages four all the way through high school. And at the same time we'll tell you the breakdown of how that all works with the girls. And at the same time parallel to that we have a moms or womens holocaust that happens in this room actually on Friday night parallel to that program. So it's lots of things happening for the girls and for the women. I know a question's going to come about the boys. I'm not responsible for the boys. You can take those questions and ask MCC. Our mission statement as an off-profit is dedicated to women and girls. We care deeply about our boys and deeply about our men. Inshallah that's not the focus of this particular organization. Because I know everyone's going to haunt me later. And I'm not responsible for the boys. With that being said, inshallah, I wanted to share with you a little bit of kind of exciting news. We've been off, we've never had a gap this long. We had a year off. Inshallah last year we thought we were coming back into the building in person. And in COVID during the pandemic we had gone online for a little while. And we kept thinking we were going to come in person and then it got pushed and then it got pushed. Inshallah last year was the only year out of those 12 years that we didn't have a program. So we're really excited to be back. I've heard from a lot of girls and parents and such that they're really excited to be back too. So we're all happy. We hope it's a fruitful year. The other exciting piece of news is that I don't know how we got the honor and blessing of doing this, but this whole program and all of the different helicas by age group, I'll tell you about their names and their themes in just a moment, was something created by one of my teachers. Her name is Ansa Sosan Imadi. Some of you have had the pleasure of getting to learn from her and meet her so far. She's originally from Damascus, Syria, although by way of America. And somebody I studied with when I went to Damascus and really, really enjoyed how she really thought about childhood and she thought about children and their milestones in different ages. Everything from their physical and cognitive milestones, which are well-known. But then she adds to it the emotional and the spiritual milestones at a time when people were not talking about any of those things. Subhanallah. And I really enjoyed her programs that she would do for girls that I saw in Damascus and wanted to emulate them here. So we tried and did our very best. And I'll tell you the breakdown of those groups. The names, even the names are things that she herself had come up with and have a specific reason as to why each group is named the way it's named. The Frost and Buddies, the Rainbows, the Rosebuds, and the Busy Bees. And we have our high school group, which is called Her as a Carolus. So that whole story for all those years, we were doing this with her supervision remotely. But now, Subhanallah, the way COVID happened and the pandemic and things, as I so said, I know these actually in the Bay Area. Subhanallah, not forever, although we hope it would be forever, but at least for a portion of time. So this time, we're really excited because our teachers have direct supervision by the person who actually created the programs, which is, like, I don't know what we did right to get such a blessing. She could have ended up anywhere in the world and she ended up here in the Bay Area. Subhanallah. And she doesn't have roots to California. So it's just a really adjuvant, really beautiful thing. And I share that with you because I'm really excited because we have a new cohort of teachers who all day today after the parent orientation when you leave, they're going to be here and training with us all day in their teacher orientation and training sessions, getting ready to work with your girls. Insha'Allah. So that's kind of exciting news and she herself will be doing the training. Now, that all is background. Now I'm going to talk a little bit about the groups and I think we have some slides to share with you. And we'll go through each of the groups. And everyone here has different girls of different age groups, so kind of bear with me, insha'Allah. And we'll also go through what the goal of the programs is, insha'Allah. There's really two main goals before I start going into each of the groups. There's two main overarching goals in the Rahmah Foundations Friday night. How it goes. Number one, instilling the love of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the love of Allah in the hearts of our daughters. And number two, that they build bonds of sisterhood. If they come away with these two things, Alhamdulillah, the program is successful. If they learn more things along the way, Alhamdulillah. But those are the two main goals. And for those parents, can I just give a still chance if people are returning parents, returning families? Okay, insha'Allah. For those who are welcome to all our new families, they're really happy to have you. And for those who are returning, I wonder if you can at all speak to the excitement that girls have on Friday nights. There's a lot of gossip out there. I don't know if anybody wants to comment on that to let our other parents know kind of what their reactions are on Friday nights with my girls, how we have ever been able to accomplish our goals. Would you guys say? Hi, my daughter loves Friday nights. She's excited to see her friends. And these friends, I think, hopefully, are insha'Allah for life. I can only see the bonds forming. And whenever she's up and watching, she's adapted towards them and find them. So it's really nice to see that. And she's learned a few things along the way as well. We definitely have our shortcomings. We're definitely learning and continuing to grow. We do hope, though, insha'Allah that these two things and we promise you that they happen insha'Allah. And then we hope more things on top of that. So now I'm going to turn my attention to the different groups. We'll start with our youngest. These are our four and five-year-olds. So Pre-K and Kindergarten. And they're named Frogs and Buddies. And the Frogs and Buddies, there's a very specific story that goes with this that kind of continues in the whole year, the story of Frog and the story of Bunny. And we actually have puppets that kind of go with them. And these stories talk about very gently and very beautifully in a very good manner, just a gentle manner, teaching about the good mannerisms that a Muslim should have. So Frog kind of helps correct Bunny, Bunny helps correct Frog. There's a whole story between this. And in terms of the actual program itself, the purpose here is for children to, at the youngest, youngest ages and stilling inside of them, this love for Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and a connection that there is a creator, something greater and bigger than them. And they do that through learning about all the different signs. So they talk about the signs and actual signs of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And they also talk about, there is some memorization at the end, there is some discussion of Islamic terms, but very much age-appropriate kind of at that level. A lot of it is focused on love. We don't come out things from a place of like halal and haram, that's not the focus of these groups. This group is very much a love-building type of group, actually all of them are. They'll have circle time, machine, story time, crafts, and they're a puppet show, inshallah. This particular year, all of our, again, overarching focus across all the groups, and we'll do this kind of more age-appropriate, as a focus on prayer. And the loving of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, and connecting it to a sense of actually connecting to the prayer. So the little bidekid level, they'll kind of have some aspects of this, but as the ages get older, you'll see there's more and more of that tied in. The next group is the rainbows, and this is a name obviously that was given about 20 years ago. So with that, I actually, before I go further on this particular group, that this age group is the next age group up. These are our elementary school kids. They are your first, second, and third graders. And Mashallah, we have a lot of kids in this age group signed up, so they're actually going to probably be more like in the first grade class, second grade class, third grade class is probably what it's going to look like, instead of kind of one big group. But the themes of what they're doing is essentially very similar. The way the name came to be, and I'll have a discussion with all of you about which stays or changes. We'll talk about that in a moment. But the way the name came to be is because all of the different colors of the rainbow they're different, that they all work together in unison to create something very beautiful. And the whole theme here, we're working with the girls, the reason that name was chosen is because all of them are very different. They come from different backgrounds, different thoughts, different ideas, different personalities. If they're all meant to kind of work together to create something beautiful, in addition to everything we're talking about here, it's really looking about how it is that how we're meant to do teamwork and work together effectively and kind of bridge some of our differences, but also make that lasting friendship a beautiful thing like the rainbow. I'll pause for a minute, because here as ASOSIN has asked me to ask you all as parents, especially those who are parents of rainbows to be, but also with our parents in the room as well, given our current status of 2022 and the way the name has been certainly misappropriated. I'm curious if there are folks who prefer to change this name. That's actually an open community discussion at this moment, and I'm curious if folks have any thoughts on this. Yes. Yes. So I told my daughter about, I mean the rainbow group, she was really excited about it and the whole thing, what's going on right now with the theme rainbows is my mind when I read rainbows and think of that she's in. So I have no concern for that. Plus one? Okay. You have a rainbow group, if you're going to ask her what she does. Okay. Yeah, that's good. It's very good. It's very upsetting that this has been misappropriated in this way. Our concern isn't so much shying away or hiding from or trying to cower away from naming it this way. That's not at all why the question is coming. The question is whether we don't want any parents with ruffled feathers or bothered by it. But as long as you all are not and you see it for what it actually is, it's a beautiful thing, then we can continue and shovel with that name. Sound good? Yes. We're taking a community poll here. So back to what we're talking about in terms of what they do. Good, Edeb, being neat and clean and helpful and working as a team, bringing joy to others and being useful to others are all things that are happening here too. Like I said, there's an overarching focus on loving the Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and that manifesting in prayer that's going to be in all of the groups. Another thing that you're going to find in all of the groups with each age that increases, it gets more and more I should follow this one deeper and deeper and deeper in the lessons. And that is the story of saying that and all of the lessons that come from that. So if your daughters have fully kind of worked on the lessons from within Surah Al-Mal, we're going to see that in all of our groups, both the prayer discussion and the swift with men discussion is going to, for this semester, is going to kind of be overarching an entire section. So far so good. I'll introduce each of the groups and then we can have a discussion back and forth with questions, insha'Allah. Is this another? This is just the daily. Oh, the daily activity. The daily activity in which they're doing tespih, hafqah, nashid and also every time so that you know how the day works, they come in, they welcome each other, they kind of have a little intro. Usually there's a beginning with some put in and they could write at the very beginning of the group. Then they have usually a mini lesson together. This is the case from almost all of the groups. They have like a mini lesson with their teachers and then there's usually after that, usually by then it's prayer time. Different times of the year usually prayer time would have come in. They return to their class and then they have a fun activity. The rest of the time is crafts, activities, lots of enjoyment back and forth in which they're, you know, having a good time together, insha'Allah. So it's a balance between learning and also fun, insha'Allah. That brings us to our third group and that is the tzibis. Our tzibis are our fourth and fifth graders and these kids, insha'Allah, I love this name, I love the tzibis name because if you look at the peksadan, the different sides of it, you'll see that there's something written on each of them but on adab, skillfulness, working together, being in importance to the world and so on. And very similar to what we said in the rapos, here too you have six sides of six kind of pillars for our main goals that this particular group has and they're busy, busy. At this point in time, they're just busy bodies, insha'Allah. You have a lot to say, they're having a lot of their own opinions that are starting to form and they have a place, a safe place to really discuss those thoughts and ideas with their teachers and peers all while kind of while working on the things that we talked about and put on adab and skillfulness, hard-working, clean and neat and being a healing to the world. This concept of money what they produce as a shifa, as a healing is a theme that happens in this particular age group. Like now you're old enough to be very purposeful in the world and what you create is actually a healing to everybody else. That's kind of our goal with this particular group insha'Allah, our fourth and fifth graders. And now we start introducing a couple higher level things like journaling for example, writing, they all have in addition to their holoca and their prep that they do like in every group. Here there's a little more reliance on them to kind of really bring forward their thoughts and ideas. They're much more, they're older now to where they can start to really engage in conversation. Then we head into our middle school years, our rosewoods. These are our sixth, seventh and eighth graders. And again, we have a lot of people enrolled in these in this group so we have them actually split by sixth grade group, seventh grade group and eighth grade group. Also noticing that our eighth graders tend to be emotionally in a different place than our sixth graders for example. So they're in different groups. And here as the name might show, the idea of a rosebud is one who's kind of coming into that age of maturity, not fully blossomed yet into a rose, just kind of like in that moment of blossoming and we're kind of like working with them to blossom into that beautiful rose and the focus here in addition to the front and they get in their hell and their craft, there's some extra pieces to this discussion. In middle school there's a lot more happening in terms of self-image, a lot of questions about the world around them, their place in the world, there's a lot more emphasis on discussion, particularly kind of about safe space again. A lot of mental health comes up in these conversations a lot about spirituality and connecting to peers, friends, bullying, all kinds of things kind of emerge in these conversations. And our teachers are trained to be training them to hold on to some of these very deep questions that sometimes come up and it really is a space for them to be able to talk about this with their peers but also with supervision of the teachers. Here too the focus will be on, just like the others in this semester focus on the prayer and connecting to a love. By this age most of the girls would have reached the level to where they have to start praying so we want to make sure that they've gotten all of the steps down and even if your daughter is somebody who already prays by this age there's always some nuances so we're actually doing an inventory towards the beginning of the groups to understand and assess their knowledge and see where they're at we're not going to boy them we're just going to have groups that are a little more advanced and groups that are not as advanced to kind of work and actually having each group do more than what they came in with so by the end of it they're very comfortable with all the aspects we don't want anybody leaving the goal here is we don't want anybody still wondering about some very basic aspects of their religion if that makes sense so that's part of our goal here it's not a Sunday school this is not a substitute for Sunday school this is also not a substitute for your own teaching of your children whatever classes teachers et cetera put on teachers you know Islamic school Islamic studies teachers that you might have not a substitute this is a girls youth group but it's not all fun it has parts of it that relate to really growing in their Islamic knowledge and loving of the most prunatonic and spiritually makes sense so far excellent that leads us to the last group which is our high schoolers our ninth to 12th grade and we will probably here split the ninth graders away from our older high schoolers into two groups I believe maybe three because we have so many 10th graders a lot maybe even three groups and here a lot of what I mentioned about the rose buds is actually true the birds of paradise which by the way is the name of Bay one day came up on her own with she was the one that unsafe rated but it's really cute that they themselves kind of came up with the same and we've kept it for many years the focus of course is everything else but here everything I said about the rose buds kind of take it another notch up with the high schoolers and I'm really excited about introducing you to the different teachers that are in these different groups together we have a lot of returning teachers some of whom are actually graduates of this very program that's kind of a beautiful thing that you have you know some of our very many teachers have themselves like 12 years ago they were my rose buds kids right my holocaust 12 years ago have turned or finished graduating went to college graduated some of them got married some of them are in the process much a lot but they come around and they know what it means to live and walk this life use this path inshallah so I'm hoping inshallah your girls get the benefit of that and one day your girls are the next group of teachers of the future inshallah inshallah so I've shared a little bit about all of the groups one more thing that I want to share before I turn it up let's turn it to questions for you inshallah I wanted to tell you a little bit more specifically about the youngest age group some of the main themes for surah that will be focused there are gratitude being good to our parents and following those who turn to Allah subhanul ta'ala so just like if you're wondering okay what from surah how do you split that into different age appropriate levels that's what the littlest kids are doing for those who are in our rainbow's group turning to Allah a lot on the prayer by the time we get to our rose buds their main themes they're focusing on our humility and how to speak and interact with others so that kind of interpersonal relationships with other people and when we get to the high school age their focus the focus of the mind is going to be focused on encouraging what is right discouraging what is not and patience I think all groups need inshallah inshallah alright so before we go to some of the logistics of powders, dates, registration pick up drop off all the rest that we have to talk about I want to just pause for a minute and take your questions what questions do we have about the different age groups and the content within them yes I think my daughter she's in a rainbow but she is a little delay is there a possibility that she could start in the future so that's a logistical question and I think I'll let sister Amin answer that soon inshallah but it's a great question we can talk after inshallah are there questions yes I want to just question about you mentioned for are there some groups that you mentioned are you choosing like just some swars or some groups yes exactly depending on our ages age in which group they usually choose a suda or if there's small sudas a series of small sudas that they recite at the very beginning and they become their Holocaust suda basically that they recite consistently and that's why I say it's not a substitute for because they're not doing reading of the put on of portions so I didn't hear the information about Kiamnites because you used to do that for very popular that was the highlight for my daughter you know in the past years we just started talking about those how could we talk about that Rachel for anybody who's new to us you're eventually a beautiful thing that we used to do with the girls I don't know what their restrictions are we need to talk about it yeah we probably have to ask the board about this if that's the first thing my daughter is are you going to do the Kiamnites again inshallah the older kids honestly even somebody under busy busy they had something called Kiamnites and so they would have a sleepover essentially at the nested in this room with all their teachers and you don't have to often but those who chose to often they would have fun and activity and they would bring their sleeping bags and pillows and stuff to animals and you know so much and sometimes they were praying and sometimes they were doing cartwheels you know a great time in this room here but we always had security on those particular nights and I just always was always here all over the night they do sleep but then they're here for breakfast and then parents pick them up early the next morning so we'll just now that we're back to the nested other questions and content and I don't have to explain anything about any of the groups okay then in short I can turn it over to Amina who will speak to you a little bit more about logistics so when I come so I'm the one that sent you all the emails and we will start next Friday October 24 we will take a break for Thanksgiving and then end on December 19 we will take a break a winter break of two weeks and I don't we'll either start January 6 or I think maybe the week after it just depends some of our Holocaust leaders are college students and they take that time off because they're off from school but we will start definitely back in January for another session that goes up until the start of Ramadan and I know a couple people asked about registration so we will redo registration again in December and yes those of you that are currently registered will get priority registration because when we did our registration a couple weeks ago I think within 30 45 minutes we were sold out Masha'a Allah so current parents will get priority registration and then after that any new parents that want to join can join Masha'a Allah okay so just some basic policies we only have one hour with the girls I'm sorry two hours we only have two hours with the girls from seven to nine so our time is very precious please drop your girls off on time our teachers are here at least half hour 45 minutes early preparing you can drop your girls off at 6.50 make sure that they're here 7 o'clock in their classroom ready to start because we only have two hours teachers cannot wait for stragglers to come in and then also it's a disruption to the other girls they get excited to see their friends and everybody's reciting for odd and then oh here comes in their bestie and it's like oh my gosh I haven't seen you all week how are you what are you doing how was school what happened and then it's a distraction we ask that you walk your daughter to the classroom it's a big building once the boys come inshallah then we could have a whole other side of the building with a whole bunch of boys sometimes there's events going on in the prayer area so we worry about the younger ones and we ask that you please walk them to their classroom the teacher will sign them in and then when you pick them up at the end of the evening again you have to pick them up inshallah please arrive with wudu we have well over 100 girls signed up that are of praying age and if they do all do not come in wudu then it's the bathroom is going to be crowded we're never going to get to the prayer on time and they'll never get back to their halakha afterwards to finish so please encourage all your girls to make wudu that's fine we understand but please make sure they come in wudu dress code because we are a Quran based halakha program and we are in the masjid we ask the girls to wear modest clothing this can include a long dress or a baya with pants underneath loose pants with a long top make sure that the top is long enough that it comes down to their thigh their knee so that when they do go down into prayer and they're posing their back hijab for the younger ones is not required but we do encourage them if your daughter's not wearing hijab that's perfectly fine but this is a chance for her to practice wearing hijab in a safe space with other girls that are also wearing their hijab with political leaders who are wearing hijab at the masjid so please encourage them to wear the hijab when they're younger and then when they're older they do have to wear their hijab inshallah stick policy please do not send your children to halakka if they're sick if they were too sick to go to school on Friday they're too sick to come to halakka that's pretty much the standard rule if they have fever if they recently have vomiting or anything like that please keep them home it's better to have them have one child miss halakka one week then have 10, 15 children miss halakka the next week because someone came when they were sick and they were spreading their germs inshallah attendance we do have a waitlist we let a lot of people in from the waitlist because hamdallah we were able to get more teachers but we do still have students on the waitlist so please respect the fact that hamdallah mashallah the halakka is high demand and there are girls that really want to get into the halakka hamdallah you have a space you're registered please make sure that your daughter attends regularly if they get sick obviously of course family emergency comes up they can't attend once or twice okay but beyond that we really need them coming to the halakka every week inshallah also that's the only way for them to benefit it's week by week as Dr. Rania explained little bits of information little bits of knowledge routine consistency that we're trying to instill on the girls and the only way that they're really going to benefit the only way that they're going to benefit is if they're coming on a regular basis pick up time please pick your girls up on time at 9 o'clock the halakka teachers to get their own halakka where they get a chance to learn after they finish at 9 o'clock and they can't get to that halakka where they can benefit with Dr. Rania and Anse Sousa if they're still waiting for girls to be picked up so if you're in the halakka with Dr. Rania I know everybody after words to ask her questions but if you do have a child that's in the halakka please at least go pick them up and then you can come back inshallah payment so if you did not make your initial payment when you registered your daughter last night all of you should have received a link to make the tuition payment so check your emails if you haven't seen it yet many of you come to life will already make the payment just off the welfare and if you need to just click the link make the payment and then your registration will be complete inshallah I got a couple questions about scholarships we do not want anyone to not be able to attend simply because they cannot afford their parents can't afford it so if you need a scholarship please either see me afterwards or you can send an email any questions? yes so Sister Amina I remember we used to do one registration and that was good for the winter session as well so I heard you said we have to do another registration I think yes so does that change in the room? we just felt that you give because we have a lot of new girls we'll let them try it out for this session and then again if they want to register for the next session they'll get priority registration so it's also a campaign it's a bit hurtful here is that the fun ones here? I'm sorry I changed that room it's because of our accounting for the accounting purposes we are in two different years one January but and just to keep our accounting head straight it helps us with the registration split like that twice a year we used to do monthly let's do it everybody's crazy especially Kara Amina so I think twice a year and then I didn't have I noticed there's some boundaries that have four girls we could also split payments right out through the years that helps people but yeah that hurt us it helps us speak 2022 yeah yeah you brought up a good point if anyone has multiple children and paying for them all at once is a burden please just reach out and let me know we can stagger the payments or even the 180 if you want to split it into two payments we can do that as well just let me know also I have a question about the students on the way to this and my two daughters are on the way to this so then they are going to run give me a few days inshallah let's get through the teacher orientation make sure all of our teachers are committed I'll look at the numbers discuss it with Anzee Sousa and make sure that we're staying within a we don't want the classrooms to be too large and then the girls aren't learning anything else for them so although we want to say yes to everybody we have to make sure that we're doing what's best for everyone for the entire group of girls but we will do our best to pull everyone into COVID let's do each other so this registration is on the phone this registration is only for the kids who are coming back returning students or is it for everybody who's even registering brand new it's for everyone whether you've attended the Holocaust previously before what's your daughter brand new to the Holocaust even she's not been she's on a waiting list is she still is she currently on the waiting list I believe so okay I'll talk to you afterwards but anyone who is still on the waiting list like I said just give me a couple of days and let's say by Monday inshallah I will get back to everyone on the waiting list and let you know what the status is mommy yes can we attend? can I attend? no I'm so sorry it changes the dynamics for all the kids in the class if the parents are there but I promise you the teachers are very well trained to be able to have a class just to see yeah I'm sure you can imagine what happens if you have 10 or 15 girls in the class plus 10 or 15 it's quite problematic inshallah so now apologies it's the same space where they get kind of an auntie or someone else that they can go to to ask their questions and my girls have been in the Holocaust for years and they always get home and they tell me this is what the teacher said this is what happened with the girls it's an opportunity when they finish the Holocaust to engage in different conversations with your daughter and it kind of opens up different conversations and topics the things that she's learning so I highly recommend to all the parents that after the Holocaust you ask your daughters what happened I'd love them to share that with you and it'll open doors for a variety of different conversations that you can have with her inshallah yes do you have plans to do daytime halakah? not at the moment the only I don't know I should use this the only daytime halakah that we've had have been in the summer during summer camps those usually are in the daytime but during the school year and everyone's at school it's the weekends yeah anything else? anything else? anything else? anything else? for the birds of paradise especially are the phones really not great question no no phones we want them focused we want them engaging and interacting with the halakah leader and with each other so honestly if your daughter leaves their cell phones even if they're having birds of paradise even if they're in one of the younger groups and they leave their cell phone with you for the two hours they will not miss it they will not need it and they'll be much more focused that they do not have their phone with them we also collect them right? yeah the teachers will have a little basket drop your phone in the bucket and you'll get it back when you're done inshallah and if you need anything you can get hold of the teacher inshallah there's always a question about like I need to get hold of my daughter I promise you they're in good hands inshallah it's really more for their concentration and ability to really be part of what's happening we also don't want any picture taken or anything recorded it really is a safe space for discussion and it really needs to stay that way in a private kind of setting like I said I really encourage you to have conversations with your daughter afterwards about what all happened and then let us know the reason we have the teachers every single Friday like just like their teaching they're also getting because we believe in a sound like you can't give the not take like in order to give you must also receive like that concept inshallah so they are also bringing their questions groups anything that the girls have asked anything they weren't sure how to answer all the teachers are trying to say well let me get back to you next week and then talk to us let me talk to our teachers and make sure we have proper answers for whatever it is it's been brought up and so on and so forth so definitely have that conversation with them and if there are topics especially for the older half of the group even the younger ones if you're finding like particular things you're struggling with with your teams you're not going to try to incorporate that into the actual Halukah process also if your child ever says I want to call my mom he would never stop them from calling to me just so that you know of course if we take the phones away at 7 o'clock at the start of Halukah and for whatever reason your daughter says I want to call my mom here's your phone step outside call your mom and then come back it would never stop them from doing that yes I want to call my mom absolutely the frauds and bunnies we limit to 12 and the other groups we try to limit to 15 which is why as Dr. Rania explained like for the rose buds we have a 6th grade group a 7th grade group and an 8th grade group because otherwise the girls the whole idea it's Halukah but it's very it's not a lecture we're not talking at the girls or talking to them it's very interactive and beyond 15 the girls all don't have an opportunity to share and then they feel left out or not part of the group so we try to keep the groups smaller so that the girls all have an opportunity to share and engage as much as they choose for the first day of drop off we will just I have two rose buds and birds of paradise so we'll just park the car here and then drop them to somewhere thank you that's a very good question all drop off and pick up comes through this door here so there's a reception desk there that's where you'll see me and probably a couple other volunteers and then I just I'm circling around constantly see if the teachers need anything in case a child suddenly gets ill or falls down scrapes their knee whatever the case may be but yeah you'll find me there at the reception desk and that's the door that you enter through and exit through any other questions oh no and we'll have volunteers the first day to direct the parents and to direct the girls to their classroom and then they stay in the same classroom every single Friday so after the first time we'll know exactly where to go I know it's a lot if you're new and this is the first time it might be a lot to take in so you will feel it after a few weeks there's a flow you'll get into a flow you'll know kind of the routine and shall not you'll feel free as always to reach out and shall not and for all of the ladies here they are more than welcome to the Friday night holocaust the parallel ones when you drop your kids off and shall not you're welcome to come in here and participate and shall not sometimes mostly it'll be myself but sometimes when I'm traveling it might actually be us as well which is kind of neat or some of our other wonderful teachers from around the world and shall not so do play on that that way you're benefiting at the same time that the girls are benefiting and sometimes it's not perfect but sometimes we try to correlate some of the information so that there is kind of a you know kind of a shared learning that is happening across the girls and has us pretty much I know Is there a registration for that or just I believe it's just a drop-in you're welcome to come as often as you like if we are doing a particular book or test one week we'll add upon the other but you can come as often or as little as you like and shall not we'd love to have a sense of community amongst the women as well as we have in the past alright anything else what is class today the main teacher they are yeah each class has at least two teachers the younger ones have a couple more a couple of assistants they will escort the girls to the bathroom you know make sure they get to the bathroom get back to their class safely yes but there's always a teacher in every classroom today now well I really appreciate you coming early Saturday morning I know we took you out very early on today now Charlie have a wonderful rest of your day and this wonderful month of Aliyah insha'Allah it's a month of the members of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and a month of just commemorating how blessed we are to be part of this ummah insha'Allah so I pray for all of you we are to seeing you all next Friday insha'Allah 7pm we're a little bit earlier 6.50 even better insha'Allah and if you have any questions we'll stay behind we'll stay behind we'll stay behind a little bit answer any questions before we welcome our teachers in for their day long teachers training so big welf us insha'Allah