Blogpost by Abdallah AlSwaitti From the 23rd to the 25th May 2024, Tatweer Wa Nahda organized a Knowledge Exchange in Jericho with a series of public and civil society organizations. The Exchange brought together: Thursday, May 23rd: Meeting with the Jericho Cooperative for Agricultural Marketing The Tatweer…
In April and May 2024, the USAID/MERC team organized a series of networking events amongst researchers conducting innovative Research in the Middle East. Our team was fortunate enough to be amongst the presenters! 🙌 The sessions included the following topics: Given our focus on electronic waste recycling…
The Tatweer Wa Nahda is boosting its skills in surveying, as part of outreach and communication capacity-building activities. On Friday, February 23, 2024, Tatweer wa Nahda organized a training in a beautiful natural setting in Kreisa, Dura. The training was provided by the association’s president, Mrs. Sarah…
On February 10th, 2024, the Tatweer Wa Nahda Association led a successful environmental hiking activity to increase the knowledge of its members about local e-waste sector and the environmental impacts of improper processing. Themed “Know It to Preserve It“, the trail aimed to raise awareness about the…
Insights from Abdallah AlSwaitti The “Together to Draw a Smile” winter environmental camp took place from January 6, 2024 to January, 11, 2024 in Deir Samet. Our main objective was to alleviate psychological stress, bringing smiles to everyone’s faces amidst the prevailing atmosphere of war and gloom…
Tatweer collaborated with the Land Research Center on the Environmental and Climate Justice Project in Palestine. As part of this initiative, a water conservation activity was implemented for 15 families in the Deir Samet. This involved installing a water-saving system in households aimed at guiding water consumption…
Working with the YWCA, Tatweer has implemented several activities in the Hebron Governorate to empower women by promoting safe spaces and creating leadership opportunities that enable them to implement community initiatives that meet their needs. Women and girls received capacity building on various topics with the support…
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…
Tatweer wa Nahda’s initiative to establish a tire recycling workshop in Deir Samit is attracting attention! The team’s work, and especially the beautiful park created by Felasteen Alyamani with the support of the Tatweer women’s association is an example of how recycling and well being can go…
A group of 15 women from our association Tatweer wa Nahda has been trained to the recycling of car tires. These tires are abundant in our area, since we live in a refurbishing, dismantling and recylcing hub, processing a diversity of mechanical, electric and electronic goods, including…
On March 21, 2023, we were invited to a conference titled “One Health: connecting human, animal, and environmental health”. Organised by USAID, the event brought together researchers, practitioners, and community organisations working in an integrative way on the interconnectedness of the human, animal and environmental spheres. A…
In December 2022, our team welcomed visual journalist Tamir Ben Kalifa for a capacity building session on photography. Through this collaboration, we hope to enrich the representation of our communities and raise the voices and stories of the women, men, girls and boys living in the West…
Our team was invited to present our perspective and work on environmental issues in the West Line at a round table organized at the Leiden University, The Hague, by the Students for Palestine on Wednesday December 7 2022. 👇 Now available, our 8-min pre-recorded film (Arabic audio,…
As part of the project “Assessing the health and environmental impacts of the electronic waste industry” funded by MERC, a team of women was trained to mapping and high resolution image analysis.
Tatweer wa Nahda announces the opening of its Book store, selling stationary supplies to school students and educational institutions. Our shop is located in Deir Samet / Al-Semia, opposite the clinic of Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Atallah Abu Zneid. We supply material to enable graduation research and educational…
This summer 2022, we welcomed Anne Dare, the MERC Coordinator and Team Lead and Denise Marton Menendez from USAID to visit our villages and discuss ways forward to work together. We visited electronic waste burn sites with farmers and herders, to see first hand the impacts. We…