Over coffee and across a table full of maps, he meticulously walked the participants through the four systems of oppression across occupied Palestine: from the siege in Gaza, to fragmentation in the West Bank, to segregation in East Jerusalem, to the experience of internally displaced Palestinian citizens in Israel’s 1948 borders. This overview laid the groundwork for tourists to understand...
We met on Thursday, the 8th of August, with a group of Gazan farmers who work in the Access Restricted Areas (ARA)- Gaza*, in order to identify their needs, as well as the obstacles and challenges they face in that region.
We held several mentoring workshops, in August, for the participants in the IBDA' Youth program in Gaza. They are now in the preparation phase of their project ideas for the voting day scheduled for next week.
"Reviving the Palestinian Identity" an initiative from Ibad Al Rahman school, as part of from the IBDA' in the schools-Gaza, participated in Dabkeh training from May to July.
We signed the community grant agreement (the grant that was distributed through a community decision via voting) with the leaders of the two initiatives from the Women Supporting Women (WSW) program in Gaza.
We organized the voting day on the 7th of July for the Women Supporting Women Program in Gaza (WSW), where 200 students, women, and a local committee participated in the voting on 18 project ideas.
Usayd and his team, from the IBDA' youth program, which is supported by Drosos Foundation, organized Al Natouf Market, which was one of the winning initiatives that the youth community voted for last April in the village of Budrus.
Rasha from Team Dalia attended a meeting for Foundations For Peace Network in May.
On May the 30th, we held a muajwara (convening) with Rosa Luxembourg on their recently published research on the Palestinian Curriculum: "School Curricula: Investing in Human Capital or Wasting it”, authored by the Palestinian researcher Muhannad Abdul-Hamid.
We implemented a series of workshops with the Women Supporting Women (WSW) program-Gaza during the month of June.
We organized the first meeting with the consultants Thaer Ayasi, and Mahmoud Hreibat on the 16th of June.
The students of the initiative "Hand in Hand to Plant Together" from Ibad Al Rahman school, held a planting activity. Their initiative was voted for by the schoolchildren earlier in the year. This activity aims at raising awareness of urban agriculture and repurposing spaces in the city.