March Newsletter 2011

Newsletter of March

2011

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VOICE OF KIDS 4:

SEMINAR:

During March 2011, the work team of Voice of Kids has conducted the sessions of the preparation stage of the project; they have got training that contained many activities promoting the work team capacities in the field and enhance the skills of their work. Some of the most important subjects, were under the focus of the group are the Psychological activities, Trauma, Adolescence stages and many other subjects took place within the seminar activities.

FIRST MEETING:

On 24^th march, a group of kids participated in the first day of our program, according to voice of kids, and before we start the first stage of the project, we used to make first meeting for the all the kids who applied, the work team aim was to identify the target group that will be involved in the project, within the activities of this day the work team present the project and its aspects.

(Promoting children, youth, women education and psychological wellbeing in Nablus – Old City)

Adding to our regular activities in the educational support, this month the teachers gave a special training on creating an educational facilitation, which would help the mothers to find a good strategy in tutoring their children, also the children had school exams, and the teachers responded to that actively, they tutored them form their own curriculums using the active participation methodology.

For the psychological wellbeing labs, in 21^st of March, the kids celebrated the mother’s celebration day within the art lab, they sang dance, and made a special card that prizing their mothers with, they have also celebrated the father day, which is created by their own imagination to give him the value as well as the mothers. As the sport team made a friendly match with the team of (Jabal El Nar), and planning to play another match in the coming days.

WORKSHOP:

On 1^st of March 2011, self conformation workshop has been provided by Rumoz Thoqan a new volunteer at HSA form Ascar Camp, this activity offered for our beneficiaries of the women who are attending the illiteracy classes. During the meeting the group discussed situations of their lives were they find them self weak, or strong, the goal of this workshop was to raise their awareness in the importance of the self – conformation and its results in their lives.

ACTIVITIES:

Due to our cooperation with the universities, we provide a special training for the students in the last semester at the university, this month we have involved 2 students in our activities, one of them are giving English class for the seventh and eighth grade, and the other one has been involved as computer lab facilitator for children aged between 8 – 12 years old, this way we insure a good service for the children and also involve the students in the social field, which integrate them with the volunteering work. One of our dedicated volunteer, Hiba Hammad, cooperated with the children of the seventh and the eighth grade that have difficulties in mathematics, she committed to teach them mathematics of their own curriculums, those children are coming twice a weak to our center.

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Youth exchange

due to the youth exchange started since last year between human supporters and Nanttare city municipality, which began when our music and Dabkah team have visited Nanttare and the many places to Paris and other cities , this year, as second phase of the project, On 17 of February human supporters have received 16 members of youth representative of Nanttare municipality, we were so happy to welcome them since the first day of their arrival, the activities program where made specially for them, included what necessary to engage them into all the aspects of the Palestinian life and make them feel a part of our life that would made their trip highly rich we presented them the culture , customs, daily life and of course Palestinian way of celebrating , they witnessed the Palestinians conditions under the occupation through out many visits to the old city and refugee camps, they have met families have a stories to tell about the occupation , where that strengthen their engagement to our case. The program also offered many activities and youth exchange, for example activities with groups of children were part of sport, music, and art activities took a place during for days, their visit were until 24^th on February, which went so fast regarding to the richness of the program this trip was a very short time for us to show our appreciation to have them in Palestine, which also too short to show them our Palestinians hospitality, finally we would thank Nadia who made this amazing project true, and we wish for her all the best, for being an amazing person, also we won’t for get to say thanks to Nanttare municipality and all the coordinators and the youth of Nanttare , it was amazing experience that we won’t forget.

In 24^th of February we have celebrated the end of the activities done with the French group in the association yard, we invited many children with their families to enjoy the day, during the day the Dabkah team presented some cultural dance, and the sport team played some games that they have learned form the French group, as the art lab also presented their product to the audience, It was a pleasant day for all, that we can not forget about.

(Promoting children youth women education and psychological wellbeing in Nablus – Old city)

During February, the teachers of the school support have visited the children schools and met the director and the teachers in order to discuss the children conditions sand improvement in our activities, the teachers presented the special cases of the children who have low achievement at school also the children who are identified as hyper activity, and violent, as the teachers explained the methods in working with the children, where the director explained the social and psychological environment where the children are living through where the meting ended with a feedback of the school teachers to work teachers of the school support .

As the teachers of the illiteracy classes for the women and the dropped out completed their work plan, which still focusing on building the basics for the weak groups and giving a higher levels for whom are in a better levels, for the school support, it was noticed by the mothers that their children are getting higher degrees specially in English language for the fourth grade boys and girls, as also the families telling, the children are more interested to attend the schools and more opened to get into the educational process which is one of our main goals of the project.

In the art labs, the children have participated in the activities done with the French group, which was kindly new for them but they expressed their feeling s that it was a nice experience they had.

28^th of February, Nancy Abu Hawlelh the employee at Human Supporters has conducted free day for the a group of girls that regularly attending our activities, the day contained several activities, eating, drawing, and playing at the association yard, the girls had a good time all together .

Newsletter of Nablus January 2011

January Newsletter 2011.

During the month of January the staff gave many of the activities that improve the performance of the beneficiaries in the aspects of education, school support, illiteracy classes, which were noticed the teachers capacities to provide the alternative methods in tutoring the children and the youth and the women. For The laboratories art, theater and sports the Volunteers provided the best activities that would improve the psychological wellbeing on children and that, especially after the psychological conditions difficult, which have been discovered and incorporated in the programs of the project, where we are planning for a special training for staff who can deal with these cases efficiently.

On 18^th of January, Mrs. Ikram al-Sharif a specialist working on “family defense association” in the cooperation with HSA staff, has conducted a workshop entitled "Violence against women", which dedicated to the women who are a part of in the illiteracy program, she presented the modern concept of violence in general, and also discussed the causes of violence in the family and society and its forms. The method of the workshop was taken by dividing the participants into small groups, which enabled them to highlight the consequences of violence in the family and society, and how to confront it and reduce its spread.

On 25^th and 27^th of January, Ahmed al-Arboudi, one of the staff of the association, who holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry, gave two workshops on health and the environment. Where the first workshop named "health of women and children" and other one “the good food” The participants were women attending the illiteracy classes, as they were aiming to raise the participant’s awareness of some aspects of the health practices of children and women.

On 26^th January, we started an educational support in the English language methodology for the seventh and eights grades, which responded to repeated request for support during the course of the volunteer Marah Abu Zanet, a student in the English department.

On 27^th of January, the new project of “promoting” project manager Mr. Salvo conducted a workshop about” reporting” for the staff and the volunteers of Human supporters association, which aimed to find a unified format for the repots written by the staff and the volunteers of the project, where the workshop were end up with one format that suitable for all of them.

On 30^th of January, we organized recreational activity for 150 beneficiaries of our programs, we took the women, the children, and the youth to in the Freedom Theatre located in Jenin, where they presented specially for us a play entitled (Alice in Wonderland) which is a story for a little girl transfer into another fantasy world where the excitements can be found.

For the other activities, new group have been formed to be a part of dance team, we have choose 6 girl to get raining twice a week in the association’s yard

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