May newsletter 2010

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May newsletter 2010

With the beginning of each month, you promised to keep informed in our previous activities, In order to crown our goals in promoting the society towards better future.

The mentoring training activities that have to do with the project (Promoting children, youth, and women education and psychological wellbeing in Nablus- old city

During May, HSA staff under the mentoring of the project manager Mrs. Emilia sorrenteno , have been setting the applicable means of the mentoring activities that will take a place in 9^th June.

The PCC experts will follow up and mentor the 80 trainee’s works, who received training on capacity building. As a part of the supervision activities, each group will be enrolled one session per a month at HAS centre, these activities will last for 6 months, starting from June until the end of December

Voice of kids

An intensive training has given in order to enable the kids to make interviews and to conduct journalistic investigations during the period of June/ July 2010. The psychologists of the project gave them exercises about the time management during the last session of May, Now, they are in a process of doing the final tests in school, as we are hoping they will do as best as they can.

External workshops:

In 8^th May 2010, a number of workshops conducted by the volunteer Mr.Ahmad Al Arboudi, he presented a play with 4 volunteers from youth straggle union organization , the play displayed at Azmut Women's Association in Azmut village, where more than 100 girls aged 6-12 years old attended the event.

Besides the play, a number of social activities took a place in order to increase the girl’s awareness about a significance moral values such as tolerance and other noble attitudes. During the 3- hour’s functions, other activities such as singing, dancing and reading stories, were carried out in the addition of the psychological support activities.

Moreover Ahmed conducted a training of other organizations members on how to deal with children and provide psychosocial support for the children near to their centre in Salfet governorate.

First Aid course:

To ensure the safety of our beneficiaries, and to improve the efficiency of our employees, we began First Aid course is in place for our staff, this will be done by the medic expert Mr. Ashraf Gaber, who is well-experienced in providing first Aid courses.

25- credit hours training course which will be carried out during June and July, will enable the staff to deal with emergencies, that might arise happen during the facilitation of our activities with groups.

Wing day in Palestine

Youth, teenagers from ages 12 and over, from NGOz youth centres of refugee camps, and other youth organization were all invited to take part in the wing day action, where Balloons flew and some other creative activities, for example singing and dancing send out their messages to the other side and the whole world.

The action organized by union of youth centres refugee camps- Palestine with the support of international volunteers. 20 teenagers from our side participated in the event, which took a place at Alram at one side of the apartheid wall. All the participants wrote their messages, dreams on the balloons and set them free.

Dream day

On May 16^th, 2010, HSA Specialists, Mr. Raed Kukhun and Mr. Ali Alnobani carried out a drama workshop. Due to the activities nature, children named the workshop “Dream Day” as it motivated them to use their imagination and think of nice dreams in a free mind. 10 children from 10 – 13 years old participated in the activity; those children are enrolled in the theatre activities and have participated in many other activities.

We have continued serving and tutoring the children, who need our non-formal educational support, as due to beginning of the final examination; our stuff and the volunteers are making more efforts in supporting children to do better in their exams .

as our dance team are preparing themselves and doubling their efforts on modern cultural shows, which will be reseted in france in many famous lounges

European delegation : 18^th May 2010

We have received European delegation included 37 members of different nationalities, the projects coordinator Mr. wajdi yaeesh introduced them to our centre, as well as the projects and the other activities. As he prised their visit which aimed to increase awareness of the Europeans visitors about the daily repression practiced of the occupation against the Palestinians. As the delegation had a field a tour in some destructed places and other organizations in the camps

German delegation of 14 members visited the association in 27^th May 2010, as Mr. Wajdi yaeesh the project coordinator gave them an explanation about the association establishment, and the staff participated in presenting the association projects and the others volunteering activities. The delegation went in a tour around the old city, and they introduced to the city historical landmarks and the psycho- political influences on the people of the city.

April 2010 Nablus news letter

Newsletter of April 2010

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With the constant continuous serving for the local community’s slices, human supporters association is expending largely every day, counting on our diverse projects that are covering by its aspects a significant numbers of benefiter’s grassroots, as our impassion is to reach wider zone of people who need our social and psychological support.

April 2010 was distinctive for us, especially because of the new project activities that began during it.

The non- state actors, Ciss (Cooperazione Internazionale Sud-Sud), the Italian NGO, In the partnership with human supporters association the Palestinian NGO, announced the activitie’s application of (promoting, childe, youth, women education and psychological wellbeing) project that funded by the European union , the announcement was through the first action, which was the press release that took a place on 8^th April 2010

During the conference, the project manager Emillia Sorrentino and the human supporters chairwomen Ms.Doha Al Bizrah, announced the launch of the project’s activities with great appreciation for the European union who funded this project, and they provided a clear explanation about the project’s goals, and the targets groups, while the director of the education directorate Ms.Saher Akub and the municipality vice president Dr. Hafez Shaheen, prised starting of such project in nablus which will helps the dropped out kids and illiterate women in building their capacities during 3 years, where the informal education will give them the opportunity to have a recognized certification, and the psychological wellbeing.

On 13^th April 2010 we started the implementation stage (capacity building training ) in the cooperation with the Palestinian counselling centre experts, the training addressed to 88 participants how working in NGOz, ministry of education, universities’ students, hsa volunteers…etc

Where the training consisted: the informal education and the psychological support, it continued until 22th of April and ended with a huge success. otherwise, this training will have other phases, as long the project is going on.

On 4^th April the activities coordinator Raed, and the volunteers Abood and Nidal in HAS, returned from France, they have been invited by the cinema politica association with the Collectif palestine Paris 8 to participate in (festival printemps palestine 2010 – resister par la culture), the three of them represented the Palestinian cultural and social resistance during the festival activities in many universities, and the whole trip lasted 14 days, as they added they had a wonderful times with collectif family, who stood by them all the time, and introduced them the civilization aspects in Paris and other cities, it was a unforgettable journey with collectif palestine. (congratulation for the work team, they done an amazing job together.

After serving the community during in the second stage, voice of kids team now are going through new educational process, the journalist Eman elshami is opening their horizons in the journalists field, and increasing their capacities to criticise and to write articles about their daily life and many other parts of their lives, due to the goals of this stage, each one of them will identified as the young journalist, They will be able to make interviews with important characters, and to in write about it in professional ways.

On 24^th April luiza Morgantini the previous vice president of the European parliament, Has visited human supporters with Italian delegation consists 45 person, we presented them the association and the activities that we do for the local community by the project coordinator wajd yaeesh, then we took the delegation into association garden to show them some of our dabka and music bands who practice daily to present an artistic cultural shows as appreciation to thier visit and of course to add more enjoyment to their journey

After the repairs has been done in our garden, it become possible to our beneficiaries do their activities officially, the garden includes large yard an two internal rooms, one for our music band and the other one for the kids, where they can have an educational support and other possible activities, as we are planning also to add special library in the near future

In the cooperation with the local organizations, we have held many workshops targeting the women and youth’s affairs, on 13^th April ( the Palestinian centre for democracy and solving the conflicts ) the trainer Najlaa Aydi has gave at human supporters two workshops during the previous month, the first one entitled (self- affirmation) For 20 of the association participants, during the session they discussed the cases where the person indentified as less self- confidence , and they worked on the solutions for such cases, the other workshop held on 27^th April, it was about (the violence against women) The women presented stories of some families who exposed to a permanent violence, while the trainer provided the group the legal behaviours to deal with it.

During the visit of representative group form Nanterre municipality, has been agreed in the partnership with human supporters to apply the summer in Nanterre camp, 14 members from our dabka and music team will present several shows during the camp that will be last for 10 days during July 2010. during April the NGOz French association ((ADD)) have visited the association too, the purpose of that vivst is to fund some projects in the near future.

March-Nablus newsletter

March newsletter 2010

Early in the beginning of march we started new project “promoting children, youth, woman education and psychological wellbeing in Nablus(old city)”
With the Collaboration of CISS organization, The project aims are enhancing awareness among local authorities, NGOs and community leaders in Occupied Palestinian Territories on children, youth and women's rights and protection with a view toward creating a healthier environment for social integration and development and reducing the poverty among children, youth and women in OPT by expanding their education opportunities and promoting their psychosocial wellbeing, rights and participation. The specific objective is improving psychosocial well-being and education of children, youth and women affected by the occupation in the Old City of Nablus.




On Tuesday 2nd of march ,Through the second stage of voice of kids project the children made poem exhibition to reborn the Palestinian culture through poems exhibition for the Palestinians poets, that presented in the centre, kids invited parents, teachers, poets, kids , they presented the poems by posting them on the walls and they made special presentation for Mahmud Darwish, also young poets presented their poems, finally they thank the kids for that special event


On Saturday 13th of march , the children went to the Separation wall in Qalqilya city which surrounded by the separation wall form all the sides and kids decided to assure the presence of the Palestinian people by going to the wall and draw on it. as they visited the municipality to learn about Qalqilya history, Mr. Yaqoib asfor welcomed them and gave a presentation about the city and the
life style and the suffering from the wall ,the final place in that activity was the zoo.

On 21st of march the Hip-Hop band (E7na) recorded a song (my mother)on the mother’s day occasion ,they offered to all mothers, they always thinking to make a new songs in different events in their community and the world, Baha’a said the team also will participate in many concert in the summer.

On Saturday 27th march one of human supporters’ volunteer Ahmad alarbodi participated in poetic symposium in atiq cultural centre in howwara village , he said that he enjoyed his time with other poets during the symposium, he read a number of poems, which has been written by himself.

The other programmes are still running as usual, English, French, theatre, dabka , hip-hop, in addition to The participation of three of human supporters association at a conference about Palestine in France.

Nablus: Four Palestinian killed by Israeli terror through 24 hours

In 20^th of March 2010, Israeli army attacked iraqboren village near to Nablus, there was a peaceful protest to take the settlers to their lands, the army killed two Palestinian children, one of them was wounded in his heart by a live bullet, and the other in his stomach, they transported to a local hospital by private car after Israeli forces held up ambulance called to the scene.

In 21^st of March 2010 afternoon, Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians near Nablus,” Muhammad Faysal and Salah Muhammad Qawariq.”
Both were from the Awarta village, southeast of Nablus, and were en route to farmland carrying agricultural tools and herbicide.
Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces declared the area a "closed military zone" .Soldiers closed the main entrance to the village of Madama, south of Nablus. The Israeli soldiers then opened fire toward the Palestinian killing the two farmers in cold blood.

This situation becomes after the events of Jerusalem, where more than 100 people were injured. In Abu Dis, an East Jerusalem town, 17 injuries were reported since confrontations and protests began early Tuesday morning. Students threw stones toward Israeli forces in the area, burning tires. Locals said forces responded with rubber-coated bullet fire and tear-gas canisters to disperse demonstrators. Where Israeli is Inaugurated “AL-Kharab” Synagogue by force near Al-Aqsa Mosque. Where the Palestinian situation was stressful and all of the Palestinians life was depressed, and the Israelis said that the inauguration of this synagogue will be a start point to built there for their alleged structure.

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