{"id":10757,"date":"2026-05-05T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:01:15","slug":"learning-through-accompaniment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/2026\/05\/05\/learning-through-accompaniment\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Through Accompaniment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block_7ce660ec9817ebf922783ce58490d0eb\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--default align-left page-width\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"i72-image cover\" role=\"img\" title=\"Comms Students and Women Entrepreneurs_Pic 2\" aria-label=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2.jpg 3000w 3000h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2-300x200.jpg 300w 200h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2-768x512.jpg 768w 512h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w 683h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w 1024h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2.jpg 2048w 1365h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2-18x12.jpg 18w 12h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2-150x100.jpg 150w 100h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2-1280x853.jpg 1280w 853h,https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-2.jpg 2048w 1365h\" data-original-width=\"2048\" data-original-height=\"1365\"><\/div>\t\t<div class=\"paragraph__inner-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"paragraph__title\">Students Apply Communication and Media Skills in Service<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"paragraph__text\"><p>Students in &#8220;Creative Communications and Campaigns&#8221; at Bethlehem University recently stepped beyond the classroom and into relationship\u2014with women entrepreneurs whose work reflects resilience, creativity, and hope.<\/p>\n<p>In a gathering shaped by listening and exchange, students met with women connected to Ibtikar, many of whom traveled from refugee camps and rural areas. Each shared her story\u2014of building a business, facing challenges, and striving toward a more stable future. Their work ranged from handmade crafts to hospitality and traditional wedding accessories, each rooted in care and determination.<\/p>\n<p>For the students, this was more than an assignment. It was an invitation to accompany.<\/p>\n<p>Working in small groups, each team is now walking alongside one entrepreneur, listening to her needs and offering practical support through their studies\u2014helping shape branding and visual identity, refining messaging, capturing photography and video, and developing social media strategies to extend each business\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n<p>In these encounters, learning becomes something lived. Students are not only applying their skills, but growing in attentiveness, responsibility, and solidarity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10762\" src=\"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Comms Students Interact with Women Entrepreneurs\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/bufusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Comms-Students-and-Women-Entrepreneurs_Pic-3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in that shared work, something meaningful takes root: the recognition that education, offered in service of others, can help open pathways of opportunity and hope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"class_list":["post-10757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-media-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10763,"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions\/10763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}