Summer Speakers- Solidarity Talks

Dalia Association organized a series of solidarity talks, informing participants, who are friends in Solidarity with Palestine about different topics. 

The first talk, by Sam Bahour, one of the founders of the Dalia Association, discussed the economic and communications situation in Palestine, after the Oslo Accords.

On Being There: One Palestine Solidarity Tour in Focus

 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...

Farmers' needs in Gaza

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.

 

IBDA' in Gaza-Mentoring Workshop

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.

Ibad Al Rahman- Dabkeh Training

"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.

 

Signing Grant Agreements-WSW Gaza

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.

WSW in Gaza-Voting Day

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.

Al Natouf Market

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.

 

 

Dalia Association in Georgia

Rasha from Team Dalia attended a meeting for Foundations For Peace Network in May.

Mujawara (Convening)- Emancipatory Education

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. 

WSW in Gaza- Workshops

We implemented a series of workshops with the Women Supporting Women (WSW) program-Gaza during the month of June.