July newsletter 2011

Newsletter OF July

2011

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‘LIVING TOGETHER’ SUMMER CAMP:

Once again this year Human Supporters Association opened the ‘Living Together’ summer camp in the church located in the Western gate of the old city of Nablus.Once again everyone came together to have a wonderful experience, sharing the various and rich, culture and customs.

60 children from the three religions based in Nablus, (Samaritans, Christiana and Muslims)were gathered at the church, every morning from the 4^th – till the 14^th of July. This summer, the facilitators offered many new innovative activities such as circus, music, dancing, and handcrafts...etc.

On the 13^ththe whole camp celebrated the end of the summer camp on high spirits. The children presented many different performances in the final show, and many parents attended and encouraged the children during the presentation. On the 14^th all of the summer camp participants went to the swimming pool and had a lot of fun there.

LAUNCHING HUMAN RIGHTS THEATRE PROJECT:

In July the team of HRTP followed a theatre training TOT with QaisAwais, who is a famous theatre expert in Palestine, this was the last part of the first stage of the project. The training offered them a methodology enhancing their pedagogical tools.

The team has worked on the promotion of the project in the community to prepare for the next stage, which is with the children and will start on the 8th of August. On July 24^th the team of the human rights theatre project conducted a special meeting with thechildren’s parents sothat they will be participatingin the project activities too. The press and many associations came to witness the event, as the team presented the associations history and activities, followed by explaining the projects stages and goals. The meeting included a music show presented by mohammad Al– Arred the singer of H.S.A. The meeting ended with answering questions and completing the participatory application, the meeting was greatly successful and the people expressed their enthusiasm and interest to include their children in such an innovative project.

VOICE OF KIDSINITIATIVES:

The third initiative that the kids conducted was aimed at promoting national production, which will help Palestinians to think about independence in the future and will assist us as Palestinians to count on each other economically, as a way to resist the occupation and its presence in our life, politically and economically. The kids refuse counting on Israeli production whilst the Palestinians have alternative solutions that should be promoted and supported by us.

As an idea the kids made a special visit to ‘Al- Arz ice-cream factory’. The tour of the factory included information about production and consumer satisfaction. This opened their eyes to the Palestinians capacity to produce good products. It was very rewarding and the kids want to reflect on this in the magazine. After the visit the kids had a debate, in a free discussion about how important a future of independence is through promoting our hand made produce that will be resistance to the occupations existence. The kids wrote about their ideas after the debate, which will be discussed in the magazine.The debate was followed by a complementary initiative, which is a special training that enables the kids to express their solidarity with national and culture products. The kids had special training to express their ideas and their sense of belonging to society, through using the media as an active tool to promote their ideas.

Tawjihi Party

We gave our best congratulation for those who passed the Tawjihi final exams. On July 30^th, at the Human Supporter’s yard,the voice of kids team initiated a special party for the students who passed the Tawjihi successfully. The party was full of happiness seen in the student’s faces, flowers and certificates were distributed to all of them.

PUPPETS THEATER:

During July the children have learned how to reflect a silent nature into puppets dialogue.

They are using the puppets activity to express their minds and feelings, as they are planning to present the fourth seasons and they are doing their best efforts to make a nice show in the end.

INTERNATIONAL DELIGATION:

Many European delegations have visited Human Supporters during July, (Italian, French, Spanish, and also from many other nationalities), as usual we have offered them a tour through the old city of Nablus, and we introduced them to what the old city suffered since the invasion in 2002 until the present.

Mr. WajdiYaeesh the director of H.S.A was their guide in every tour. As we presented Human Supporters history and activities that all were based on the suffering and the influence of the occupation.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Two of our staff conducted an entertainment day within the summer came that were dedicated to 150 girls of Iraq borenvillage, the staff conducted many physical activities that brought enjoyment to the girls day, which was the goal that we aimed to accomplish.