KAFD celebrates anti-extremism programme graduates

AMMAN — The King Abdullah Fund for Development (KAFD) on Tuesday night organised a graduation ceremony for the young people who participated in training sessions on fighting the extremist ideology.

The fund offered training for 124 young people and for 25 others as explainers of the training guide on social media outlets, as well as holding 18 training workshops across the Kingdom that targeted 435 people from schools, universities and civil society organisations, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

KAFD, this year, issued a training guide that aims at enhancing the ideological and cognitive awareness that the youth need to combat extremist ideologies. The fund also funded nine youth initiatives that aimed at fighting all kinds of extremist ideologies.