Pal Craftaid Partner Organizations
We also encourage you to consider donations to any or all of our very important partner organizations on the ground in Palestine. Your gifts will help them to continue their own important missions of support and advocacy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Gaza.
Aid to the Aged (ATTA) serves the elderly in the Old City of Jerusalem and in the West Bank. Many older people are isolated from their families due to the Wall and travel restrictions for Palestinians. With a small staff and a trained corps of volunteers of all ages, ATTA provides hot meals, medications, transportation for medical appointments and errands, socialization, spiritual comfort and even house cleaning services. ATTA ministers to vulnerable and isolated older people. Contact Nora Kort (nkort1@bezeqint.net).
Rawdat El-Zuhur (www.Rawdat.org), a secular elementary and kindergarten school in East Jerusalem, is based in Christian moral principles with Christian leadership. Pal Craftaid funds were used to enrich the holistic and character-building curriculum with French, drama, music, arts, and dance classes. This is particularly important for the students and teachers who endure the daily stress of getting to and from school, made difficult and time-consuming by the Wall that divides East Jerusalem from the West Bank and by harassment from Israeli Defense Force soldiers at checkpoints.
Rawdat El-Zuhur School has a United States based 501(c)(3) partner organization through which gifts many be directed:
Embrace the Children of Palestine, Inc.
ATTN: Lana Kurtz at 3410 Wisteria Court; Birmingham, AL 35216
Online: www.etcpalestine.com
The YWCA of Palestine ( www.ywca-palestine.org) at its four sites in the Occupied Territories – Jerusalem, Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem – empowers Christian and Muslim women through vocational training and access to employment opportunities, promotes women’s rights, and provides youth leadership training and civic engagement. The YWCA operates businesses which provide needed income and develop confidence and skills for women. In refugee camps, they provide educational programs for women and children which stress creative learning, critical thinking, identity strengthening, and recreation. They host young leadership training events, youth exchange programs, and youth cultural and sports programs. In cooperation with the YMCA, they plant olive trees, where orchards have been bulldozed by settlers.
The Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza (www.Atfaluna.net) serves about 300 children ages 3 to 18, in their educational programs for the deaf. These children are from families who are living below the poverty line. With generous love, Atfaluna teaches children and adults academic and social skills, helping to break their sense of isolation. Craft programs staffed by the deaf and their families provide income for many women on site and many more women working from their homes. Creating beautiful needlework, woodworking and ceramics provides income which helps families survive the economic blockade imposed by Israel.
Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center ( www.alaslah.org) is a grassroots civil society organization based in Bethlehem since 1994. In Arabic,“wi’am” means “cordial relationships,” and developing relationships is the essence of its mission. It helps resolve disputes within the Palestinian community at the grassroots level by implementing the traditional Arab form of mediation, known as Sulha, along with Western models of conflict transformation. It has programs that empower children, youth, women and men, addressing the psychological and physiological consequences of long-term conflict.
The Arab Orthodox Society (AOS) is a Christian women’s organization. Through AOS, Pal Craftaid has provided financial support for medicine and clothing, for individuals and families and supplied several families with a small monthly stipend.
Rawdat El-Zuhur (www.Rawdat.org), a secular elementary and kindergarten school in East Jerusalem, is based in Christian moral principles with Christian leadership. Pal Craftaid funds were used to enrich the holistic and character-building curriculum with French, drama, music, arts, and dance classes. This is particularly important for the students and teachers who endure the daily stress of getting to and from school, made difficult and time-consuming by the Wall that divides East Jerusalem from the West Bank and by harassment from Israeli Defense Force soldiers at checkpoints.
Rawdat El-Zuhur School has a United States based 501(c)(3) partner organization through which gifts many be directed:
Embrace the Children of Palestine, Inc.
ATTN: Lana Kurtz at 3410 Wisteria Court; Birmingham, AL 35216
Online: www.etcpalestine.com
The YWCA of Palestine ( www.ywca-palestine.org) at its four sites in the Occupied Territories – Jerusalem, Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem – empowers Christian and Muslim women through vocational training and access to employment opportunities, promotes women’s rights, and provides youth leadership training and civic engagement. The YWCA operates businesses which provide needed income and develop confidence and skills for women. In refugee camps, they provide educational programs for women and children which stress creative learning, critical thinking, identity strengthening, and recreation. They host young leadership training events, youth exchange programs, and youth cultural and sports programs. In cooperation with the YMCA, they plant olive trees, where orchards have been bulldozed by settlers.
The Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza (www.Atfaluna.net) serves about 300 children ages 3 to 18, in their educational programs for the deaf. These children are from families who are living below the poverty line. With generous love, Atfaluna teaches children and adults academic and social skills, helping to break their sense of isolation. Craft programs staffed by the deaf and their families provide income for many women on site and many more women working from their homes. Creating beautiful needlework, woodworking and ceramics provides income which helps families survive the economic blockade imposed by Israel.
Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center ( www.alaslah.org) is a grassroots civil society organization based in Bethlehem since 1994. In Arabic,“wi’am” means “cordial relationships,” and developing relationships is the essence of its mission. It helps resolve disputes within the Palestinian community at the grassroots level by implementing the traditional Arab form of mediation, known as Sulha, along with Western models of conflict transformation. It has programs that empower children, youth, women and men, addressing the psychological and physiological consequences of long-term conflict.
The Arab Orthodox Society (AOS) is a Christian women’s organization. Through AOS, Pal Craftaid has provided financial support for medicine and clothing, for individuals and families and supplied several families with a small monthly stipend.