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