Last Day of CADFA work experience

We have had a wonderful time working for CADFA this week. Sorcha and I have focused much of our work here on the Picnic for Palestine on July 20th. We have been publicising for the event by creating and distributing leaflets as well as creating a Facebook event page. However, we have also done many other things such as sending letters to local newspapers and radio stations about the sponsored fast we took part in and the picnic and making powerpoint presentations and certificates that can be used by CADFA in future. We are very thankful to the CADFA team for welcoming us into the office and for helping us make this experience a success. 

This is the leaflet we made for the picnic.

 We hope that man of you can make it.

Ryan Soraghan

CADFA Eid event

Yesterday I made a leaflet about the CADFA Eid event on the 23rd of July 2015 .

  at the Calthrope Project.

I'm so excited about this event. It will be the next week after Eid Al-Fitir .

Les will play some Arabic music with the SOAS Arabic Band and I will sing  Arabic songs by Firouz, I am a bit nervous .

This event is celebration and awareness at the same time.

People will enjoy the music with  delicious Palestinian food. 

I hope everything will be wonderful.

Salam 

Nadeen 

Ryan and Sorcha's first day of Work Experience at CADFA

Hello everyone,

Today we did our first day of work experience at CADFA. We made the leaflets for our picnic event happening on the 20th July. We also made the certificates for everyone who participated in the sponsored fast. Then we wrote to the editor of the Camden New Journal about our experience of the fast and the links between Camden and Abu Dis. We are now off to hand out the leaflets for the event.

Ryan and Sorcha

CADFA Picnic

CADFA are inviting you to a picnic event on Monday 20th July at 2pm on Hampstead Heath (near the bandstand).

We aim to use this event to inform people about the stories we were told by the Palestinian children about their experiences of living in Palestine as well as using it to publicise the issues within Palestine. 

We hope to see many of you there!!

Sorcha and Ryan

The CADFA fast

Last Saturday five of us decided to do a sponsored fast as part of Ramadan for a day to raise money for CADFA. This involved not eating or drinking between 3am and 9.30pm. As all of us had never fasted before, we found the experience a lot harder than we thought it would be.  It was a hot day and as we couldn't drink anything including water we started to struggle soon after waking up. Some of us had prepared by waking up before sunrise to eat an early breakfast, which helped keep us energized throughout the day. At the end of the day we all met up at a restaurant with other CADFA volunteers to break our fast. Eating with us were others who had been fasting for many years and were used to participating in Ramadan.

"It was really difficult to begin with but once I got used to it, it got easier. I know have a lot of respect for the people who do Ramadan for a whole month" - Lucy

"Although I only fasted for a day I found the whole experience very difficult and challenging.  I have a lot of respect for those who take part in Ramadan and work in high temperatures!!"  - Sorcha 

"Fasting made me grateful for the food and water that I take for granted" - Saoirse

                                     These are a few photos of us breaking our fast together.

Our fotocollage

 

 Lucy ans Saroirse  created a piece of art yesterday. We remembered all this beautyfull and funny moments with you!!! Hope you like it :)