DANAT hosts students on Career Tasters Programme
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
The Bahrain Institute for Pearls and Gemstones (DANAT) hosted the Career Tasters Programme for students, in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Adliya. The students were given a tour of DANAT’s gemological laboratory, where they saw how natural pearls and gemstones are studied and authenticated using the most recent technologies.
This visit also gave them an overview of DANAT’s services and the opportunity to attend the seminar entitled “A Day in a Marine Biologist’s Life.”
The students were briefed on the institute’s educational courses, and its specialisation in testing and studying natural pearls, in cooperation with the Gemological Society in the UK (Gem-A), making DANAT the first accredited teaching centre from Gem-A in the Middle East.
Ms Amal Al Kooheji, Member of the Board of Directors of DANAT and President of the Adliya Rotary Club, said that hosting these visits comes within the framework of the institute’s keenness to enhance the knowledge of Bahraini youth in the history of Bahraini pearls, their locations, methods of extraction, examination and documentation mechanisms, in line with DANAT role in implementing the National Plan to Revitalize the Pearl Sector.
Mrs Al Kooheji noted that the participation of DANAT in this initiative comes within its commitment to community partnership and in the context of participation with civil initiatives and institutions working on the development of the Bahraini society.
“Bahrain has historically served as a hub for the pearl trade, and we are happy to continue this tradition into the twenty-first century by educating Bahraini youth about the culture and history of their ancestors, which once again embodies DANAT’s keenness to actively contribute to shaping development, growth and economic diversification according to Bahrain’s Vision 2030,” Mrs Al Kooheji said.
Mrs Al Kooheji said that the goal of DANAT’s support for the career guidance programme run by the Rotary Club of Adliya is to introduce the emerging national cadres to professions in non-traditional fields in the Bahraini labour market, such as the field of gemology and Bahraini biology where pearl pods are found, and to encourage them to study these sciences as a career path that will ensure them lucrative employment opportunities.
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