Reflections on the Urban Remedy training in Berlin
By: Rahaf Rifai
By: Rahaf Rifai
We concluded the year 2019 with a great workshop in agroecology with the expert in Agroecology, Mr. Saad Dagher. This workshop was decided upon unanimously by the Women Funds at Dalia: Tulkarem, Salfit, Jericho and Ramallah.
Let’s Communicate: the socio-cultural project that aims to provide advanced training in the art of puppeteering for 25 children, held multiple performances in the area.
With three laptops on my back, we arrived at the destination: A.M. Qattan Foundation, on Tuesday the 3rd of December, where the next couple of hours we held one of the most exciting events conducted by the Dalia Association: The Social Change Auction. It is a live crowdfunding event, aimed at supporting local community...
Aslak/ Wires: An environmental, social and community initiative that aims at recycling metal wires in a creative way and turning them into high-quality pieces of art,
On the 1st of December, we organized a trip to Susya with the IBDA' in the schools program with students from the Ramallah Friends School (RFS).
This year, we started the IBDA' in the schools at Ramallah Friends School (RFS), with a different approach,
Rahaf from Team Dalia and a youth group from Palestine, participated in the Urban Remedy Project (Youth mobilization through Urban gardening) in Berlin, Germany.
We organized a mujawara for the leaders of the initiatives from the IBDA' Youth program in Gaza.
The participating youth visited Al Qarara Cultural museum and learned how it was established through a volunteer group.
t is a challenging job to work in the field of social change; more particularly to mobilize specific groups of people; in my case “the youth” who are mobilized in order to accomplish economic initiatives through youth Ibda’ program. Many obstacles hinder the achievement of the work. This even includes thinking patterns. The Palestinian youth are frustrated;...
Majd and Rasha from team Dalia participated in the plenary meeting of the Foundations For Peace Network (FFP), of which Dalia is a member. FFP is an international network of independent local philanthropic organizations working towards peace and social justice.
We organized the voting day on September 11th for IBDA' Youth Program at the University of Palestine - Gaza, where 28 initiatives were presented. Voting by the community was not feasible, due to the large number of attendants. Therefore, a local committee was formed and they have selected 11 initiatives.