Newsletter of Nablus January 2011

January Newsletter 2011.

During the month of January the staff gave many of the activities that improve the performance of the beneficiaries in the aspects of education, school support, illiteracy classes, which were noticed the teachers capacities to provide the alternative methods in tutoring the children and the youth and the women. For The laboratories art, theater and sports the Volunteers provided the best activities that would improve the psychological wellbeing on children and that, especially after the psychological conditions difficult, which have been discovered and incorporated in the programs of the project, where we are planning for a special training for staff who can deal with these cases efficiently.

On 18^th of January, Mrs. Ikram al-Sharif a specialist working on “family defense association” in the cooperation with HSA staff, has conducted a workshop entitled "Violence against women", which dedicated to the women who are a part of in the illiteracy program, she presented the modern concept of violence in general, and also discussed the causes of violence in the family and society and its forms. The method of the workshop was taken by dividing the participants into small groups, which enabled them to highlight the consequences of violence in the family and society, and how to confront it and reduce its spread.

On 25^th and 27^th of January, Ahmed al-Arboudi, one of the staff of the association, who holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry, gave two workshops on health and the environment. Where the first workshop named "health of women and children" and other one “the good food” The participants were women attending the illiteracy classes, as they were aiming to raise the participant’s awareness of some aspects of the health practices of children and women.

On 26^th January, we started an educational support in the English language methodology for the seventh and eights grades, which responded to repeated request for support during the course of the volunteer Marah Abu Zanet, a student in the English department.

On 27^th of January, the new project of “promoting” project manager Mr. Salvo conducted a workshop about” reporting” for the staff and the volunteers of Human supporters association, which aimed to find a unified format for the repots written by the staff and the volunteers of the project, where the workshop were end up with one format that suitable for all of them.

On 30^th of January, we organized recreational activity for 150 beneficiaries of our programs, we took the women, the children, and the youth to in the Freedom Theatre located in Jenin, where they presented specially for us a play entitled (Alice in Wonderland) which is a story for a little girl transfer into another fantasy world where the excitements can be found.

For the other activities, new group have been formed to be a part of dance team, we have choose 6 girl to get raining twice a week in the association’s yard

Nablus newsletter : December 2010

December newsletter 2010

Before we narrate the newsletter of December we would nicely wish for you a happy new year that full of success and accomplishments, and special wishes to the Palestinian society who suffered since years and years, best I can wish is the freedom for the people of Palestine

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Illiteracy classes :

On Sunday 2^{nd of} December we conducted the first sessions of illiteracy classes, that were after we Classified the first target groups, 50 from both dropped kids aged between 13-18 years old, and women aged between 25-45 years, attended the classes, we started tutoring them but first We divided into four groups of 12 in each class in order to give more attention for each participant, working on covering their needs in reading and to writing, and that opportunity that they waited for since long.

School support:

During December, our school support activities were following the main methodologies and goals of the project itself, it was obvious the improvement of the children’s performance in the classrooms, due to the participatory approach that made a positive changes.

As the teachers held 3 meetings with the mothers in order to explain their children achievements and the teachers’ plans and their methods in tutoring their children

Labs :

With the beginning of December we started the Art labs activities, Sport, Art, theater, and computer In each lab there are 15 children aged between 9-14 years old, the aim of the labs is to enhance the children’s psychological wellbeing and to increase their abilities in playing and working together as team and to express their feelings so they can gain more awareness about their lives.

Voice of kids

On Saturday 25^th of December, afternoon we held the voice of kids’ conference in Hamdi manko hall, the conference held for celebrating the end of the edition 3 and to distribute the magazine, many visitors, the kids’ parents and all the organizations were involved in the activities of the project came to join us our happiness in this special event that the kids wait for since long, during the conference the kids presented the magazine and the activities were held within the stages of the project during 2010, as Hamza and Nawal presented their poems, which people admired, apart of the conference was a clowning show presented by Spanish clowns, so that 100 kids involved in the school support with their mothers participated in this even. We are very proud of the children’s achievements and we congratulating them for the magazine.

Delegations:

27^th December a Delegation of 70 French called “international solidarity movement “visited us, first we took them in a tour in the old city of Nablus and we explained them the landmarks of the city. As we explained them about human supporters services . Also in 31^st of December an Italian delegation of 40 people visited human supporters association, as the staff introduced the association projects and activities and the psychological conditions in the old city cased by the Israeli solders during the repeated invasions to the old city

Nablus newsletter : November 2010

November Newsletter 2010

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School support

As part of the school support program, from 27^th to 30^th November four meetings were held with the children’s parents, which aimed to explain in detail the project’s methodology, specifically the promotion of children’s participation in the education process and raising parents’ awareness of their essential role in building their children’s capacities. The promotion of children, youth and women’s education, as well as the psychological wellbeing of young residents of the Nablus old city, was also discussed. During the meetings the teacher listened to parents’ comments about their children’s difficulties in the schools and promised to provide special training for the parents in upcoming meetings. Parents reported benefiting greatly from the meetings.

My Father Reads To Me campaign

Human Supporters Association has participated actively in the wide-ranging campaign called My Father Reads To Me by reading stories for 15 children in the Association garden, where this campaign was launched. Run between 1^st and 4^th November 2010 by the Tamer Institute for Community Education, in collaboration with many local organizations, this campaign aimed to promote the relationship between parents and their children though the reading of stories.

Clowning, laugh therapy

The well-known Spanish group called Fest Clown visited Human Supporters Association specifically to undertake a program of workshops entitled ‘Clowning, Laugh Therapy’. At first they ran a workshop involving 20 Association participants in which they provided basic training in clowning. The next day a laugh therapy workshop was held with the same group in which the trainers taught participants many simple games to make them laugh from the bottom of their hearts.

Clowning party for the school support children

Fest Clown organized an amazing clowning party for more than 100 children involved in the school support program. For two hours, Fest Clown acted, sang, and danced for and with the children. Participating children reported that they had a wonderful time with the clowning group; it really brought joy to the children’s hearts.

American delegation visit

On 6^th November, an American delegation called Interfaith Peace Builders visited Human Supporters Association. Their visit aimed to learn about the projects offered by the Association to Palestinian society under occupation. Their program also included a visit to the old city and other activities.

Nablus newsletter : October 2010