July newsletter 2010

July newsletter 2010

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Voice of kids :

In the 15^th of July, the voice of kids group started the project 4^th phase activities, which through it the whole group decided everything about their magazine like articles which they wrote in the third phase , the designs which they will be learning how to do by computer trainings .

In the final phase the kids became ready to add a lot of different subject to their magazine; we hope that the magazine will take a good place in Palestine and the outside world.

Promoting children , youth , women education and psychological well-being in Nablus - old city :

As the success is continuing in implementing the activities of this project , the cooperation between the H.S.A and the ministry of education about the schools and the targeted groups to give the special educational services is still running , this cooperation will also help us to have the names and the number of the drop out children who we will be working with in this project . The formal and the informal education programs will start at the beginning of the school year.

In the 17^th of July 2010 a group of the beneficiaries who belongs to “collectif Palestine Paris 8 “with the cooperation of “generation Palestine “ le mans city , started to implement the “my story in the History “ project for the H.S.A children which included the photography activities and movie making which is about the Palestinian reality according to the children’s point of view . The children were supervised by this group, and they made an exhibition for their pictures in the association yard on Saturday the 31st of July .

The families of those children attended the exhibition and celebrated with their children the end of the project and the publishing for the 5 movies .

The 21^st of July, H.S.A made an open day with the coordination of PCC for 60 children from both centers. The activity aimed to mix the both center’s children together and to introduce them to the activities of the H.S.A association .

H.S.A with the cooperation of Bayalara center started implementing the (count to ten) project, which includes 2 groups from both genders aged between (13-18) years old during July.

The project aimed to create an acceptable and tolerant culture for the youth, and also adopt some wise means away from violent.

In addition to many trainings and workshops about psych-sociological health and conflict management.

H.S.A with the cooperation of Bialara center, made an open day for 50 children, it included a lot of activities and group games with prizes, celebrating the opening of the ARZ ice cream factory, and encouraging the local producing process.

In the 31st of July H.S.A participated in a festival in sebestya , which included a lot of singing and dancing activities.
the association was apart of the folklore dancing and singing shows , leaded by the association dabka dance team .
H.S.A (Ehna) hiphop dance team participated with a very interesting dance shows .
The festival included a tour in this historical village which told the story of the civilization which have lived in .




Visits :
An Italian delegation with Luisa morgantini the previous vice president of the European Union, they visited the H.S.A to get introduced about the association projects, which helped the people in our community.
The delegation also visited the Old city as usual.

Nablus newsletter june 2010

Newsletter of June 2010

In 17^th June, Voice of kid’s team has visited defence for children international centre in Nablus, the goal of the visit was to meet the centre’s services and also, to make an interview with Mr, Samer Ajaj the manager of the centre, he started the meeting with an explanation about the centre services offered to save the children rights and protection, During the workshop the kids presenting some children’s matters and discussed them with him. As 5 of the kids made interview with the manager in private, in order to discuss deeper information the centre target groups and work methods.

European delegation of different nationalities consisting 14 psychologists and psychiatrics visited our association on 6^th June 2010, where the purpose of the visit was to take an overview about the association’s programmes. As Mr. Wajdi Yaeesh one of the association founders and the current projects coordinator of HSA, presented a brief history of the association establishment, which is considered as a reflection of the Israeli invasion to the west bank cities in 2002.

The projects coordinator Mr. Wajdi Yaeesh explained the children’s conditions under the invasion of 2002, and the repeated practices of the Israeli soldier against the Palestinian society, special in Nablus – old city. Additionally; the activities coordinator Mr Raed Kukhun gave an explanation about the goals and the stages of Voice of Kids program.

The delegation visit lasted for 3 hours included with tour in the old city leaded by wajdi, he showed them the historical monuments of the city and the destruction left by the Israeli soldiers during the invasion 2002.

Group of alaizareh municipality board members came to our center to discuss the details of the participation in the summer camp will be hold in France - noture city, that will take place in 5^th july 2010, in this summer camp our dabkah and music team and 5 of their youth will be part of it , our team will present dabkah and music shows during the camp activities, as it will last for 12 days including the visits to the other cities like pairs

In 21^st June, HSA opened the summer camp activities door (living together), that we offer every summer vacation, this camp includes kids aged between 9-13 years old, and covers the three religions located in Nablus city, Muslim, Christian, and Samaritan, where the goals of the camp is to promote the tolerance and the social unity among the religions. As also, it includes lots of entertainment and artistic activities.

(Promoting children youth, women, education and psychological wellbeing) project

On 9^th June we started the supervision meetings in HSA centre, the goals behind the meetings is to monitor the 80 volunteer’s affairs in the work field, their difficulties, and personal skill, Also enhancing the local organizations performance in the psychological and social work field. The meetings will take a place on June until the end of December.

we started new French course for the children aged between 10-13 years old, by the graduator mr. mahdi Karadeh, who is one of our best volunteers in tutoring French for the children, as we started also the activities of ( the story) that will encourage the children on reading educational stories, this activitirs leaded by Ms. Nancy abu haweleh on of the HAS staff.

As we continue the other usual activities in serving the children and the youth of Nablus.

We would like to thank you all for supporting us in serving our community; and we give special thank for our partners, that together we will promote the justice and the social change in a better future for all the Palestinians.

Nablus newsletter May 2010

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.