ActionAid Palestine to Support Summer Activities Promoting Right of children to Paly and Learning
Hebron-West Bank- ActionAid Palestine (AAP) supported a summer camp for children titled with “Having Determination towards Peak”. This camp targeted 100 children from the southern area in Hebron Governorate through AAP’s program of “Child Sponsorship” in partnership with the Palestinian ministry of education. This camp aimed at compensating the educational loss and basic skills that students could not acquire during the past two years due to closure of schools through COVID-19. Learning activities of the summer camp that will last for 12 days will be accompanied by playing and entertainment activities.
This summer camp includes different coroners as educational classes, theater, arts, handicrafts, educational games, life skills and sports. Through those corners, children enjoyed participating in many educational, recreational, counseling and awareness activities.
There are many violations to right of children to education in this area due to prolonged occupation and settlers’ violence. Those violations include checkpoints that impede students from reaching schools, raiding schools, throwing tear gas and stun grenades. Students are sometimes exposed to detention and arrest. They are also beaten sometimes in their way to schools.
Rama Abu Quder is a student participating in this summer camp says: “the camp is interesting because it provided us with space for playing and learning. We are exposing to violations by occupation as throwing tear gas. However, this camp encourages us to learn and to be strong and we have learned that determination is needed for reaching peak”.
Mohammad Abu Sinenah is participant in the camp says: “we have learned values of respect. I have participated in drawing and enjoyed my right to playing. I have learned a lot. I wish to participate in these kinds of camps next year”.
Mariam Al-Ja’abri (7 years old) is a participant in the summer camp says : “ I enjoyed activities of summer camp which included playing and lessons in math, Arabic and English”.
Idris (10 years old) is a participant in the summer camp says: “this summer camp is one of the most interesting camps I attend. I can’t wait to come to the camp everyday to participate in its activities. I have learned drawing and established new friends”.
AAP’s program of Child Sponsorship implements this kind of entertainment activities to promote the growth and welfare of the child and improve the school environment in the marginalized areas that suffer from protection threats as demolition and settlers’ violence.
Through its program of “Child Sponsorship”, ActionAid Palestine works in partnership in with the Palestinian ministry of education and other local partners to support online education, enhance the infrastructure of Palestinian schools in the governorate of Hebron. AAP also supports recreational relief-psychological support activities to improve the welfare of children and educational environmental. AAP works in Gaza with local partners to provide children and their mothers with psychological -social support.
Background Information
ActionAid in Palestine (AAP) is a part of global federation working for social justice and gender equality and eradicate poverty in more than 46 countries around the world. AAP 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.
For more information, please contact
Riham Jafari
Coordinator of Advocacy and Communication in Palestine
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