Maria Fidelis New Group

Hello youth friends!

We are so happy to write again about Maria Fidelis School. Some weeks ago, Fiona (the art teacher) and ourselves tried to build up a new group to continue with the Human Rights Lunch Club.

Yesterday, we started with some new girls, some of them were involved last year in the lunch time. We talked about blogs, the Palestine situation and the next youth visit. Dunja explained everything about the drama group, and how they can join the project and the sessions. We are sure that they will have a good time with people from Palestine in June and also with other young people from London.

I think, they were happy to be involved in Cadfa, to learn about Palestine and enjoy all the activities which we are preparing! I hope to see you next week!

Emilio Sanchez.

EVS Volunteer

Child prisoners Campaign

Hello.

We want to invite you to the orgnisation meeting for CADFA's child prisoners demonstration in Regents Park. The meeting will take place on Friday 6th March at 3:30pm to 4:30pm at the CADFA office in Kentish Town. On Saturday 7th March there will be a demonstration in Regents Park from 1:00pm to 2:00pm. We will meet outside Regents Park tube station at 12:30pm.

Hope to see you all there!

Dunja, Sorcha and Emilio

Around our school

Our school, La Sainte Union is in the north of London. It is near Hampstead Heath, which is a big park here in London.

Aida, Naima, Zainab and Saoirse in front of La Sainte Union. We are all students here and we are all 16 to 17. We study subjects like History, English, Biology, Maths, Politics, Classics, Chemistry and many others.

Aida, Lucy, Zainab and Saoirse

La Sante Union is near Highgate Road, a typical busy London street.

We all use buses a lot, to get to school and around London.

I want to go to college

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

 Hi friends!

In the last session in LSU school we played a game call 'I want to go to the college' with the students. The game had been made with some other EVS volunteers in the past. We want to say 'thank you' for making it, because it is a really useful tool learn about  Palestinian issues.

The games is quite easy to play, we have a board with different boxes. You throw the dice and you move your peice forward the number in the dice. If your box has a question mark you pick up a card. All the cards are in the middle of the board. If your card has a positive answer about the school you can advance one box more, but if your card has a bad thing like the difficulties which the Palestinian students find every day, you should go back one box.

Example: 'I found my favourite book in the library' +1  ; ' The Israeli soldiers throw tier gas to the school' -1 The winner is thw first to arrive at the end of the board.

At the end of the game we talked about different topics in Palestine like the problems which the students have every day in the school: checkpoints, problems with soldiers,tear gas, etc.

Emilio Sanchez.

EVS Volunteer

 

Palestine timeline

Hello youth friends!

Yesterday we made a special session with the LSU school during our 'Humans Rights Club' in the afternoon.

We started talking about the next youth visit in June 2015 and the girls are really happy and excited to be participants. They have good ideas and they want to enjoy with our palestinian friends.
During the second part of the session we show a Palestine 'timeline' and we talked about different moments in the Palestine history. After that in two groups they decided two historical moments and they made a small research in internet to do a exposition for the other group about this moment. Was really beautiful listen the girls explaining things as a 'al-nakba' in 1948 or what is an intifada.

I hope they enjoyed the session because they were actives, talking, searching and learning a lot of things about Palestine.

Emilio Sanchez

EVS Volunteer

Cake Sell

Last Thursday we had a cake sell at LSU School. It went brilliant. We earned 154 pound!!!!

A big thank you to all this lovely students, the CADFA members  and Erica (the teacher) which baked cakes, helped to organise it and to sell the cakes. The biggest thank you is for Sorcha. She is amazing and just because of her all this could happen. 

Naditas lovley cupcakes

LSU School likes Cakes !!!

Valentins Day Stall

Dunja

More child arrests

News from Abu Dis today: CHILD ARRESTS in the night again. Two boys from Abu Dis boys' school were arrested, in each case by a large group of soldiers invading their homes in the night, and taken away.

IN LONDON CADFA YOUTH LINKS ARE MEETING on Friday at 2pm to work on their campaign against child imprisonment