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

Abu Dis musicians have arrived in London

... and some of the women's group were at a welcome meal at Katy's in their honour.

We talked about the blog and decided to send you another message. We are still hoping you will write back - in English or in Arabic, no problem...

*Hope you are all well*

love from Nandita, Lucinda, Katy and Cristina

From the Camden women's links group

Dear women at Dar Assadaqa

We had a meeting today and we were very pleased to hear about what you are doing.

We looked at your list of things that you are doing. We talked about sewing and computers. It is interesting. Everyone at our meeting has a sewing machine but no-one uses them any more.... All of us used to make clothes but it is cheaper to buy clothes now. What do you want to make?

But all of us think computers are very useful... We all use them a lot.

Anyway we want to keep in touch with you all.

We are looking forward to the Palestinian women's visit and we are planning some great events. We are having an International Women's Day event on 7th March at the Calthorpe Centre and we would like to talk to you that day on Skype at 2pm our time - that is 4pm your time.

What do you think? Is that a good time for you? Will that work?

We are looking forward to hearing from you

Love from Lucinda, Katy, Nandita (and Cristina, Margot, Lucy and Val who couldn't come today)

Abu Dis women friends in London!

Dear all of you (and other friends there)

We miss you in London! Please write to us here, in English or Arabic

and write soon!

X Nandita