June Newsletter

June Newsletter

2011

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LAUNCHING HUMAN RIGHTS THEATRE PROJECT:

With the beginning of June 2011, human supporters association started the long awaited “human rights theatre project” which is a new psycho-educational project, dedicated to the youth of Nablus and its surrounding, the project uses the Human Rights as a tool of empowerment and the theatre as a tool of expression and achievement. This project will be implemented over the coming 18 months and will evolve of 70 youth aged between 12 – 16 years old.

On June 18^th, the team of the HRTP has started the seminar activities, which is the first stage of the project that is taking a place at HSA, from the beginning of June until the end of July 2011.

The seminar includes two main topics Human Rights / and theatre provided to the work team and other interested volunteers by several associations (Independent Commission of Human Rights, Defense for Children International, BADIL Resource Center.. Etc).

The trainings being provided are offering the work team methodologies efficiency in working with youth. As well as presenting concepts later on during the implementation of the project

VOICE OF KIDS INITIATIVES:

June 16^th, the voice of kid’s team went to “SAMA NABLUS” for its first outdoor activity. in order to on the top of the mountain they had a lot of fun, making brainstorms and coming up with initiatives. The first initiative was entitled “keeping our Palestine clean” on Thursday.

To reserve the environment and keeping our country beautiful, the team of voice of kids has decided to make an environmental campaign, as a tool to send a message to the society, promoting the concept of saving our country cleaned and healthy.

the chose for the first initiative fall in one of the most popular park called “Jamal Abed Al-Naser”, in which most of the people goes to enjoy their time with their little children who run to play in the green, So that it was worth to lunch the kids’ campaign from that spot. Concerning the figure of people and the bad environmental situation in the park

28 kids of the team and other visitors have disrupted in areas in a small teams, in 2 hours the kids have made sure a healthier environment for the kids have don a well done job, then they mad a special even all together in the families section, were they sang, and share the food, then they have made so activities and expressed their huge how happy they are to made the initiative and the enjoyment they have got during the day.

On June 29^th, the kids done the second stage which is an intensive training entitled “the civil defense” addressing the children actions and providing them the best practices and the procedures to deal with the fire when it may happen, followed by a visit to the firefighter centre on the second of next month

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PUPPETS THEATER:

During June, the four groups in the puppets theatre have performed many educational stories concerning the health and the environment and other topics made by their own imagination. Through out using the theatre the kids are having a best time and enjoying playing together and expressing their feelings though the puppets that became a very powerful tool to in their lives

(PROMOTING CHILDREN,YOUTH, WOMEN EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING IN NABLUS – OLD CITY)

With the end of the first stage of the project activities, HSA will provide a special training for the teachers of the school support program by the hands of new local volunteer holding master degree in building an teaching methodologies , the training started with a first session conducted On June 18^th,. And will be conducted on July. The training will be addressing the needs of the teaches in the psychological and educational aspect, that will be enhancing their performance with the children later on.

SUMMER ACTIVITES:

Due to the end of the exams and the children holidays, HSA are holding a weekly different activities to the children, such as the drama activities that took place on the 15^th June, the children have draw the four seasons, after the spoke about the nicest things they see in winter or summer, which was a resulting with the kids appreciation to the four seasons and gave them the chance to express and enjoy. As the played in the yard and had the best time all together.

As we open an English class for the children delivered by Nour, the new international volunteer, the course is totally in English and the kids are learning and improving fast despite the foreign language