13 year old Ali was arrested by Israeli soldiers yesterday

Two boys from Abu Dis Boys' School were arrested yesterday by Israeli soldiers - See more of the story here   CADFA REPORT 16th September

We are writing to our MP about this and asking young people to join with us to demand their release.

Youth links prepare to visit Palestine...

Yesterday the CADFA office was completely full of people as people in the youth links group brought along parents and friends and we all talked about the planned visit to Palestine - in fact, how to do it if Erasmus + are not able to fund it.  After lots of discussion, we decided to run the visit at the end of the year after the exams, to allow time to fundraise.

Today people came back to talk more about it and to make plans for the fundraising - A challenge we will meet!! 

Below...why we want to visit Palestine. And below that, what we are going to do about it...

Why do we want to visit Palestine?

By CADFA Youth Links

To learn about Palestinian culture

To understand Palestinian life

To learn more about Palestinian restriictions and their treatment

To actually see the things we’ve learned about for example checkpoing and the Wall

To see different things and places

To visit Jerusalem

To see the Dead Sea

To see the people we met again

To learn more Arabic and teach some English

To eat Palestinian food

To come home and be able to tell our own stories and experiences

And what we are going to do about it...

• A sponsored walk on CADFA's birthday 4th October.
• A Palestine festival on UN Children's Day 20th November.
• A jumble sale (date to be decided)
• Making fundraising pages
• Cake sales at five different schools

Goodbye event and finishing off

Hey everyone,

tomorrow we will have a event, which will include presentations from the evs volunteers, foot and other things. It mainly an opportunity to say good bye because we, the EVS volunteers are leaving CADFA soon.

For me this are the last working days! One of the things I enjoyed the most was working with the youth links, because I met so man nice, smart end engaged young people. I hope you will all continue working with CADFA and experience lots of nice things next year. Hopefully I can read lots of things on this blog from Germany. 

Bye Bye :)

Dunja

Dar Assadaqa summer camp - the first week.

تتواصل فعاليات مخيمنا الصيفي للأسبوع الثاني  بمشاركة متطوعينا من بريطانيا بالتعاون مع متطوعينا المحليين خلال الأسبوع الأول زار مخيمنا جامعة القدس ومدينة بيت لحم  ومخيم عايدة للاجئين

هذا الأسبوع سيكون هناك زيارة لمركز المرفأ والدفاع المدني بالإضافة الى رحلة مدينة أريحا أو بلدة بير زيت

مجموعة من الصور لرحلة يوم الخميس الماضي الى مخيم عايدة ومدينة بيت لح  

 

 

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