Al-Shmoh Cultural Center's mission is to:
1- Serve 10 Palestinian villages on the southern edge of Bethlehem District.
2- Help Palestinian villager's attain prosperity and peace.
3- Pursue four "H.I.E.R." objectives to improve village life:
Health, Information, Education, and Recreation
Al-Shmoh Center and its partners make our community healthier by:
1- Bringing in free medicine and medical professionals.
2- Building the area's first clinic.
3- Improving women's heath education and awareness of their rights.
4- Providing local homes with their first-ever drinking-water pipelines.
5- Bringing food and clothes to our villages' neediest.
Al-Shmoh Center is an information hub. We enable residents to explore the world from the village whenever they want by:
1- Creating Al-Shmoh Net-Lab, which provides computers, software, training and Internet access to this rural area.
2- Building and stocking Al-Shmoh Library.
3- Investigating ways to connect area homes to the Internet.
Al-Shmoh Center is a growing nonprofit educational facility that supplements residents schooling by:
1- Offering semester-long courses by university-trained men and women to local students of all education levels.
2- Providing one-on-one tutorials for high-school students.
3- Bringing in experts for workshops on topics of local interest.
4- Providing adults with additional training in literacy and business.
Al-Shmoh Center is becoming a regional recreation center. Here Palestinians can enjoy their culture and their neighbors by:
1- Starting Al-Shmoh Summer Camp, where students play, sing, act and learn leadership skills.
2- Hosting regular social activities based on local interests, such as a planned chess club.
3- We call it the Al-Shmoh Algebra:
Health + Information + Education + Recreation = Prosperity + Freedom