With the support of the Middle East Research Cooperation, Tatweer Wa Nahda organized a Winter Camp in January 2024 for children aged 8 to 12 years old. Titled “Together to Draw a Smile”, the camp focused on psychological relief, joy, and environmental questions, through activities including physical education, arts and crafts, and field trips and visits.

The camp seamlessly blended fun and education, successfully pulling children out of the atmosphere of war and gloom that prevails in the region. The camp became a beacon of hope and brightness for them.

Doctors Without Borders hold meetings with women at the Tatweer wa Nahda Association every Thursday. These sessions aim to provide psychological support and visits for some women to alleviate life pressures they may be facing.

Tatweer Wa Nahda also works with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) to provide Safe Spaces for women and anyone experiences gender-based violence.

Within the Basmah project, Tatweer wa Nahda is empowering women by promoting safe spaces and creating leadership opportunities in Hebron. The project is implemented by the YWCA of Palestine and funded by the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). It supports Palestinian young women to design and lead community initiatives that meet the needs of women and other young women in their communities. With the Basmah project, Tatweer wa Nahda is also providing health advice and performing finger-prick tests to monitor blood sugar.

More information: https://ywca.ps/ar/news/topic/356

In July 2023, Tatweer wa Nahda organized, in cooperation with the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, its fourteenth Identity and Belonging Summer Camp, under the slogan “Summer Camp for Scouts: Identity and Belonging; They Are Moons in the Sky, They Are Not Numbers”.  Located within the Deir Samit High School for Girls, the camp welcomed 100 children and teenagers.

Olive trees were received by our association, in cooperation with the Dura Agriculture Directorate. We are redistributing them to women interested to plant or expand their olive groves.

As part of a project on Environmental and Climate Justice in Palestine, led by the Land Research Center (LRC, https://www.lrcj.org), Tatweer wa Nahda has set up a tire recycling facility and is supporting electricity and water economies in the area. Through this project we seek to support women entrepreneurship and contribute to the recycling of waste in our villages. Women have been working in the waste sector for a long time but often in less profitable positions. We seek to boost their technical and managerial skills so that they can develop their creativity and be fully integrated into the economic opportunities arising in our area.

Our project assesses the health and environmental impacts of electronic waste recycling and disposal in the West Bank, especially open air burning of household and electronic waste in the West Line, the epicentre of the Israeli-Palestinian informal recycling value chain.

Our aim is not simply to generate a grounded scientific analysis of these impacts, but, in doing so, to add evidential support for policies and interventions toward (1) clean e-waste processing  (2) the remediation of contaminated sites (3) adequate healthcare for children and adults impacted by e-waste processing.

In this pilot, our community based organisation supported 3 measures to improve the electronic waste industry in the West Line and limit its negative impacts:

(1) supporting alternatives: pushing the businesses to adopt electric cable grinding instead of burning for copper recovery;

(2) cleaning up: identifying key e-waste burn sites to be remediated and piloting the clean up on test sites

(3) local policing: supporting a locally based network of monitoring and reporting, to prevent and stop burning

The 3 components were highly successful and cost effective. They were documented here and here.