Human Right Media School

We went today(Suzan, Safia, and Selina)to Camden Girls School to talk about a project called Human Right Media School which will be held on the 14/02.
Selina talked about it, and some of the girls were so interested about it and they asked about the applications, so We have given them the leaflets and the application form to fill.
We are waiting for this project :)

Snow

 Hello from a snowy Abu Dis! This week, storm Alexa has hit the Middle East, bringing lots of rain... and snow! No public transport, floods, power cuts, and NO SCHOOL this week. How's the weather like in London? Do you have snow yet?


While we wait for the girls to go back to school, here are some pictures of Palestine in the snow.

An article in The Guardian talking about storm Alexa: http://www.theguardian.com/weather/2013/dec/13/middle-east-snow-storm-alexa

The ID game

Today me (Waad) & Safia we went to Camden girls school, where we had a massive number of girls which we were really happy about. We looked at the blog and the girls read about the young girl from Abu Dis who died at the check point. After that we played the ID game (Marry you know it, don't you?) and the girls had loads of questions which we were really happy to answer.

Palestinian Food ........

Today, Me and Suzan wanted to show to the girls how  delicious the palestinian food was ! We prepared some traditional food : Za'atar with bread , and Olive Oil ! humous, and some tasty Olives .... :) ! We spent a good time with the girls, and also with Una ; and hope they discovered more about Palestine !

Picture coming soon !

   Dip the  bread in olive oil and than dip it into the za’atar, though some people like to mix the za’atar and oil together

News from Abu Dis

More strikes in Abu Dis! Public schools have called for regular strikes in the last few weeks throughout the whole of Palestine! The Girls School was closed both last week and the week before and unfortunately will be closed tomorrow.

Some sad news from Palestine:
This week a 14-year old girl from Abu Dis died on the way to a hospital in Betlehem, after finding the 'Container' checkpoint closed. The girl suffered from severe pneumonia and didn't make it to the next hospital. The news are even sadder as this is not the first time that similar episodes happen, many people have died on their way to the hospital because of closed checkpoints or because soldiers didn't let them pass.

We Want To Play a Football Match!!!

   I (Suzan) and Safia went to Camden girls school for our regular lunch club, where we met Una( the teacher who runs the lunch club ) and there were 7 girls waiting for us:) We were supposed to do the IDs game but  I found that I brought half cards so Safia suggested to show a video entitled (We Want To Play a Foot ball Match) which was made by  Palestinian children who enacted the reality of our land.

    It was about some children who  wanted to play a football match just near a small playground local to their home. So they actually went but the Israeli soldiers stopped them and started to ask them about their IDs and one of the soldiers hit a boy so his friend tried to defend  him but the soldiers hit him and took him to the prison!

    So after they watched the video I asked them what can you now tell us about what you saw, and really they were so smarts and asked a lot of questions :) I can tell now that those girls started to understand the situation in Palestine . Next Friday the girls suggested if we could have  lunch together and they said they would prefer it if we brought some Palestinian food like zaatr, bread, olive oil, olives :) we will have fun :D

  I took  pictures of the girls and the lunch club but we still are waiting the permit from the parents of the girls :)

Introduction to the Human Right Media School

I went today to the school alone, where I met Erica (the teacher who runs the lunch club) and we went to meet 16 girls who wanted to know more about the Human Right Media School project. Erica talked about it very well . I and the other girls (Louise, Katrina, and Jessica who help in running the lunch club) answered the questions after the discussion. Erica handed out all the leaflets and asked the girls who were so interested in it to start contacting  her or even on Cadfa's website which is written on the leaflet.