Nablus newsletter -December 2009

Newsletter of December 2009

How fantastic the achievement it has been by the voice of kids work team during December 2009, their mission was constructing the foundation of the group through a multi psycho-educational activities, and they succeeded, Despite all the difficulties that were faced amongst the new groups, including issues of age, residence and cultural backgrounds, they managed to build a strong cohesive team. The group started to lay the foundations with an introduction, breaking the ice, lots of simple games, and such activities that intend to cement the first brick in their relationships. With time they become more and more opened to each other, and they ended up actively with leading themselves in some roles under our supervision, We anticipated this accomplishment, but never would of guessed at how well it turned out over December.

One of our main activities has been curried out for this month, was the educational workshops that took place in Howrah village, and Alta ‘won housing area. characteristics of adolescence lecture was for youth of 12-18 who identified as teenagers, we have discussed the physical, psychological, and emotional changes that expected to occur during the adolescence stage. All the information presented there reflected on their self-awareness positively and that was our goal of the session.
Our volunteer Ahmad Elarbudi is a specialist in the applied chemistry, he has done a lecture for women in Alta’awon area, he explained about the industrial materials could be used in the healthy food’s contains, Plus the best ways of having cleaned pots of chemicals, which was very interesting subject for the housewives.

Two of our best volunteers Abeer Titi,Aya yaeesh have built activities program for kids, that program is rich of Drama activities such as playing rules, drawing, and physical games, the new Group of boys and girls had shown their talents through the program. As was obvious that Varity of the program enabled the boys and girls to relief there feelings and to learn more about themselves

Certainly we still provide the usual education classes program for our kids groups, plus the ongoing dabka training for the youth. The hip-hop team is recording new music about Palestine and the identity. All the activities done by human supporters are for serving the local community. And we hope to do more and more to promote the the education in Palestinian society.