New draft of WHAT NEXT (following the video conference)

Please send comments quickly to contact@camdenabudis.net - Thanks

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We have found how much we share as Palestinian and British women

We want to maintain contact as individual women and women’s organisations

We want to organise further women’s visits and develop a future programme of shared activities between the two countries

We want to go on collecting women’s stories as this is important for the future. These are stories of our mothers, stories of our own generation and stories that affect our daughters

We want to challenge the assumptions built into the Balfour Declaration: it isn’t up to Britain to decide what happens in Palestine

We want to make British people aware of their country’s responsibility for what has happened in Palestine through leaflets, workshops, teaching packs

We want to work to heal the pain caused by the Balfour Declaration and Britain’s actions in Palestine which led to the immense suffering of Palestinian women under the Israeli occupation

We want to work together to raise the awareness of British women more widely about the human rights issues faced by Palestinian women

We want to promote the idea of twinning and friendship links between different places in Palestine and Britain and strengthen the links that there already are, so that people from both places can work together in an equal way to promote human rights for women and for everybody.

Video conference

A very big thank you to everyone who took part in the conference today. It was very special for us - the first time we had done anything like it - and it was brilliant to talk together about the Stories from our Mothers project and how it had gone, and about the future... There were lots of good ideas and here in Camden we hope that this is really NOT THE END (as we said in the book).

We hope we can put the good ideas into practice, and also that we can meet again in this way some time.

I thought you might like to see some pictures taken in London - Nandita

مشروع قصص من أمهاتنا

(لقاء بين النساء من فلسطين وبريطانيا)
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تعلن جمعية صداقة كامدن ابوديس ودار الصداقة في أبوديس بالتعاون مع مركز إنسان لدراسات الجندر في جامعة القدس عن انعقاد المؤتمر الختامي لمشروع قصص من أمهاتنا الذي نفذته جمعية صداقة كامدن أبوديس بتمويل من مؤسسة آنا ليندا.
سيتخلل جلسات المؤتمر لقاء عبر الأقمار الصناعية بتقنية (الفيديو كونفيرنس) بين كامدن لندن وجامعة القدس أبوديس.

وسيتم عرض فيلم خاص تم إنتاجه عن مشروع قصص من أمهاتنا
واستعراض بعض الموضوعات والقصص التي تضمنها كتاب قصص من أمهاتنا الذي صدر حديثاً

وذلك يوم السبت الموافق الخامس من حزيران من الساعة الثانية عشرة وحتى الثالث من بعد الظهر
في جامعة القدس أبوديس.
لمزيد من المعلومات والمشاركة الرجاء التواصل معنا على الايمالات المرفقة
abudis@camdenabudis.net
fadwal@art.alquds.edu
contact@camdenabudis.net
www.camdenabudis.net/stories.htm

From Najah... The best thing

ان احسن ما تقدمه لعدوك المسامحه
ولصديقك قلبك الطيب
ولابيك الاحترام
ولوالدتك السلوك الذى يجعلها تعتز بك
لنفسك الاحترام
ولجميع الناس المحبة
1the best king to your enemy is forgiveness
2the best thing to give to to friend lovely heart
3the best thing to give a child a good example
4the best thing to give to your father your respect
5the best thing to give to your mother conduct that will make her proud of you
6 the best thing to give to your self respect and gove for all people

Women's visit to London

http://www.camdenabudis.net/stories.html

From Dalia...

لم تتسنى لي الفرصه بأن اشكركم عل جهودكم
سعيده لاني عدت الى الاهل

ولكنني كنت اسعد حين كنت بينكم
حقا شكرا جزيلا جميعا
وافتخر بانني اعرفكم
واني كنت عندكم
ومثلت طلاب فلسطين وتعرفت على اصدقاء جميلن هناك

فشكرا لكم دايما


بتوفيق دايما
داليا

Letter from Dar Assadaqa women

Happy new year to the people of Camden. The community of women in Abu Dis thank the community of women in Camden. For their support and sharing what happened in Gaza early last year.

Over the past year we have attended many presentations about women’s health, and we wrote the ‘voice of women’ magazine which you received in Camden. We now want to begin work on a new magazine.

The women here received the ‘Stories from our mothers’ group from London in November and we traveled around Palestine together. We would like to share our stories with them all.

The womens’ committee also visited Al-Haq centre in Ramallah last year and we visited the trade unions in Jericho and Bethany with friends from Camden. We also shared the children’s camp in the Dar Assadaqa centre in the summer.

The new sewing machine has now arrived for us and we thank you for your support here. We want to start sewing classes soon.

With best wishes,
The women’s comittee