Newsletter of January 2013

Winter camp for 50 kids at HSA.

 

Winter camp planed in the beginning of January 2013,with a great enthusiastic volunteers committed to participate actively with us, the winter camp included arts ,sport, computer ,dance and outdoor activities, once kids finished the first semester exams, they were ready to use their time in useful activities ,in the end of the camp kids were very happy and we distributed some gifts and certificates to them.

School support Project preparation.

During this month the preparation period started, three  new teachers hired , the program addressed to 60 children from 8 to 10 years old and they will have three subjects Arabic, Math and English ,as usual the program will be after school time three days per week, HAS decided to continue implementing this kind of projects according to the needs ,also according to the many strikes in the government schools nowadays .

Women leadership project:

Early in January  a new project  Idea came out to see the light in HAS, so the preparation stage launched and all the materials needed provided ,this project will contain two parts ,one will be about the women skills and raising awareness and the second one will be like entertainment activities that they well learn about how do  some traditional food and western food and sweet and then ,we will create a sweet book as second part of our previous cook book .

Women workshops

A regular workshops still running by the psychologist sharehan abu Saleh , in this month two workshops addressed to the women and the main subject were about the metal health and problems at the families .

Luisa morgantini group visit HSA and Nablus .

In the first day of the year 2013 we welcomed  Italian group organized by Luisa Morgantini, the aim of the visit was to know the Palestinian situation under the occupation in the ground, they visited also the old city of Nablus and they got an explanation about what happened during the past period by the Israeli army and how the people suffered and effected ,then the group met the youth participants who went to Italy to participated in the project ‘’you’re Right’’ and discussed with them how is important this kind of the projects between Italian and Palestinian .

  

      

  Sabeel-tree delegation  from United States .

 21 Americans, students, teachers, journalists and retired professionals,

Visited Human Supporters Association in January, to learn of our activities, and to hear about HSA work, the recent developments and current challenges facing our community and to tour of the old city of Nablus, in the same time Dr.Saed abuhejleh gave them a great lecture about the Israeli occupation and the general situation in Palestine .