Kul aam w intum bekhair

New women's project

Dear all of you in the Dar Assadaqa women's group

Thanks very much for the letter Sarah sent us from you all.

We have had a meeting of the women's links group here in Camden (London) and we are very pleased that we have got some funding from the Anna Lindh project for the women's project we were hoping for.

These are the main parts of the project:

* women's visit from Camden to Abu Dis in early November
* women's visit from Abu Dis to Camden in March
* making a book together to be finished in May.

* We need to plan it together, very soon - There is so much to do now! And I hope to speak to you in the next few days. Maybe you can let us know when you meet so we can talk on Skype?

All best wishes

Nandita on behalf of the women's links group in Camden.

Camden teachers' visit

Dear all of you
Now Annika is back in London... Will you see this blog? HOPE SO...
Now I really miss you... I was in Abu Dis with the teachers' visit (see below) and hardly saw any of you... Wewere so busy... HOPE TO SEE YOU SOOON...... Nandita

The Dar Assadaqa banner

We are in the process of making a banner for Dar Assadaqa. Here it is!

Dear all of you

THANK YOU

for the lovely pictures and the information about your women's day! It is so nice to see it.

Here we are all still very busy as we have had lots of events and lots of visitors... Our next women's links meeting will be next term (*after the holiday we have in April)

We will ask Annika to tell us about her time in Abu Dis with you...

My nice news is I AM COMING TO SEE YOU ALL! Really looking forward!

Love to you all

Nandita

International Women's Day 2009

On the 7th March we celebrated International Women's Day at Dar Assadaqa. We invited many women from Abu Dis. We brought many sweets but the children ate most of them. Naja welcomed everyone and talked to them about Dar Assadaqa in Arabic and Fatheya translated into English. Women came from all over the world including Australia, Sweden, England many from Abu Dis.

Marah sang a song about Palestine and the children performed a short play about a lady whose finger was bitten by a dog belonging to the General. After that we connected on the internet with the women in London. We exchanged messages and we thanked them for raising money for our garden.

At the same time other people were planting trees and plants in the garden.

Here are some members of the Women's Committee and Annika.

Here is Ne'ma wearing a traditional Palestinian dress that she made by herself.

Fatheya and Sara are planting.

Women's visit 2009

Hurray! 11 women from Palestine arrived last Wednesday in London... including Hiba from Abu Dis and Rawan and Saeda from the Al Quds University in Abu Dis.... It is brilliant having them here.... Here is a picture of some of the people at a welcome meal on the day they came.

After that, the women started travelling all over the country, doing talks about Palestine. Rawan and Hiba and Sirien (from Toubas) and Ghada (from Jenin) talked at our International Women's Day event.

We were very happy to talk to you on the Messenger but a

pity we couldn't see you.... PLEASE PLEASE WRITE TO US!

And... thank you for the magazine!

Love from Nandita