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Within the activities and events of the initiative gender project, "gender", which is implemented by the international relief agency under the supervision of the General Union of Cultural Centers in partnership with Zakher Association for the development of Palestinian women capacities, an entertainment trip for women and girls has been implemented and on Sunday 05/22/2011 for nearly 100 women of who participate in the various activities of Zakher and in the three fields of the project (Sports - Computers - and women's forums.( The starting point for the bus at nine in the morning from the headquarters of the main office in Shijaiya al Mintar Street was heading to Haifa restaurant on the coast of Gaza. The trip has included a team who also working on a project such as trainers and supervisors and facilitators, and project management from the UNRWA and the General Union. The aim of this trip is to provide an entertainment environment to help supporting women psychologically, socially, and to create an atmosphere of fun and entertainment to relieve the burden faced by women in daily life, and this is sought by Zakher which is striving to achieve "provide a decent life for women," and this is so obvious through the activities, programs and the projects implemented by the Foundation within the mission and goals. It is worth mentioning that the prevailing atmosphere of happiness and joy filled the place through fun games and recreation on the beach, singing, feeling fun. We left the place at three o'clock on a regular basis thanking the Department and the Foundation for the implementation of such trip and wishing to organize such trips in the future. The initiative project of gender established in 2008 in order to support and empower women and girls and to improve their abilities to better levels and more capabilities. The project is implemented currently in the 26 institutions at Gaza Strip . The project consists of three main activities which are sports, computers, conventions, educational, which includes character handicrafts, art, book club, free expression and discussion panels.
Zakher Association for Developing Palestinian Women Capacities has implemented many of the activities and events such as workshops and valuable performances to highlight the right of girls and women in education and screening a documentary about depriving women of their right of education within the activities and events of the "Global Campaign for Education for All" during the period from 2 to 8 May 2011 in coordination of the Teacher Creativity Center, and under the supervision of the General Union of Cultural Centers and within the innovation of educational within educational forums under the supervision of gender project supervised by Nisreen Al Mabhouh. Also it was was presented the story of "Mrs. Insherah Al Manasra " or Om Ghassan, who has been deprived from the right of education, but did not give up. Her ambition to forces her complete the study, especially after her marriage and the giving birth of her five children and then became an active community-based NGOs, in particular at Zakher, which granted her to hold the position of Secretary General . She has highlighted the main challenges she faced in her life and she presented her story in front of a large group of women and girls who did not have chance in education. Moreover, a workshop has been implemented between the girls who has been deprived of education and their mothers and all of them put their own reasons that led to the denial of education . Some of reasons are dating back to the girl herself that she doesn't have desire to complete her education . Other reasons are belonging to the people in their inability to complete education or for other reasons which have been presented and discussed together. Ms. Ina'am Hillis, chairman of the Zakher stated that education is a right and a duty of every girl and woman who has ambition in education to improve their cultural, educational and social level . Education is a weapon for them all at any time and at any place, and that education is not limited by time or place or limited to age. The events concluded on the final day of the campaign which included an open day entertaining competitions and theatrical sketch and an open meeting with the ladies as a kind of psychological support to women who participated in campaign activities.
Within the framework of the joint cooperation between Zakher Association and International Relief Agency in an initiative of gender project, "gender" and under the supervision of the General Union of Cultural Centers, Ms. Rebecca Deep, project manager and the coordinater Najwa lubad visited the different branches of Zakher, Tuesday, 10 / 5 / 2011. The visit comes within a series of visits to the institution, where the purpose of the visit, is to be informed of the progress of activities and follow-up (learning units, sports, computer and forums) that carried out in the different branches of Zakher, Ms. Rebecca met with girls who received benefit from the educational services provided to them also she met some ladies who participated in other activities . Both girls and women expressed their happiness to be provided with those services and they were thankful to the Foundation and Relief Agency to provide such services to them. In turn, Ms. Rebecca expressed her pleasure of the visit and thanked the management for their warm welcome and good commitment and cooperation in implementing the activities
Thursday, January 6, 2011 Gaza – from Aya Al Mashharawi : Zakher Association for Developing Palestinian women Capacities ,implemented the initiative of "The world loves us," to strengthen the bridges of trust between the children in the Gaza Strip and the outside world, with the participation of 40 of the Family Center's children who are members in the of the association. The initiative aims at spreading the values of tolerance and love the other, both inside and outside Palestine, and spreading the knowledge of other cultures in the world and understanding with all its diversity, and encouraging children to express their ideas with peaceful expressive. The initiative includes a range of activities, including awareness meetings to educate children and a running Mrathon with 200 of the children of Family Center carrying messages and meanings with values of tolerance, and sending messages to the world through the sea carrying the aspirations and wishes of children for the future and implementing a range of cultural days in the world that highlight the traditions and cultures of some societies, such as the French Cultural Day and Canadian Cultural Day. Parents and local committees and community figures participated in the initiative, , and many of the stakeholders, and we will be working on media coverage because we realise the importance of sending the voice of children to the world. It is worth to say that this initiative comes within the program of the "UNICEF" and it is being implemented by the Foundation "Save the Child" Sweden's cooperation with NGOs and community institutions, and with the support of the Canadian Agency for the development of "Seda" and the Humanitarian Aid Office of the European Commission and Palestine Bank.
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