ActionAid Palestine to Support Safety Measures in Schools of Hebron Governorate to Combat COVID-19
Hebron Governorate-West Bank-ActionAid Palestine (AAP) implemented an initiative supporting 68 schools in Hebron governorate in coordination with the emergency central committee and the Palestinian ministry of education. This intervention includes providing 24200 students with masks and providing schools with hygiene kits, sterilization pumps, thermometers, personal protective equipment (PPE). This intervention was conducted through AAP’s programs of “ Civil and Democratic Participation of Palestinian Youth” and “Child Sponsorship” on the occasion of beginning the new school year after six months of closing schools due to the spread of COVID-19.This intervention aims to enhance the capacity of marginalized schools to enforce safety measures to contain the spread of the virus. It is also a part of AAP’s strategy supporting the national and international efforts that are being exerted in Occupied Palestinian Territory in combating this pandemic.
(photo of a teacher who is checking the temperature of a student at the entrance of the school based in the old city of Hebron as a safety measure against COVID-19 -Hebron-West Bank-Copy Rights for ActionAid Palestine 2020)
The targeted schools in marginalized villages and areas and some of them are exposed to many education threats since they are surrounded by settlements, and Israeli military checkpoints which students have to go through to reach their schools.
(photo of female students while they are crossing Israeli checkpoints placed in the old city of Hebron to reach their school. Hebron-West Bank-Palestine-Copy Right for ActionAid Palestine 2020)
The country director of ActionAid Palestine, Ibrahim Ibraigheth said: “It is important to concerted all efforts to help parents by providing their children with safety items protecting them from the virus and support the efforts of the Palestinian ministry of education that exerts to ensure the safe return of our students to their schools during the crisis of COVID-19”.
Background Information
ActionAid
ActionAid is a global federation working for social justice and gender equality and eradicate poverty. ActionAid works worldwide to empower people living in poverty and exclusion with focus on women’s rights .ActionAid works directly and closely with communities, civil society organizations, women movements and social groups and movements and other allies to tackle root causes of poverty and oppression. ActionAid deliver grassroots programmes to utilize efforts of global struggle movements working for a just, fair and sustainable world. Based on human rights-based approach and women rights’ principles, ActionAid seeks to fairly re-distribute powers through solidarity, empowerment, awareness campaigns and creating alternatives to ensure that everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from oppression.
ActionAid in Palestine (AAP) is a part of that federation which started its work in Palestine in 2007 to strengthen the resilience of Palestinian People as ActionAid believes that they should enjoy their rights to freedom, justice and self-determination. AAP implements a number of programs through its engagement with communities and women and youth groups seeking to empower them and enhance their influential civil and political participation to understand their rights and undertake collective activism to address the protracted rights violations resulting from the prolonged occupation of Palestine. AAP works simultaneously to enhance their leadership capacity and knowledge to practice their citizenship in holding authorities and other duty bearers to account.
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