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Post by Avalanche on Jun 15, 2007 13:16:10 GMT
www.hopingfoundation.orgHope and Optimism for Palestinians In the Next Generation. HOPING stands for Hope and Optimism for Palestinians in the Next Generation. Established in January 2003, the charity is supported exclusively by private donors and public fundraising events, such as concerts and auctions. The charity was launched in order to offer support and encouragement to Palestinian children living in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East. HOPING's aim is to help generate possibilities, giving refugee children a belief in the promise of a better future, and show them that their struggle to transform their lives is encouraged and supported by people in Britain and throughout the rest of the world. HOPING is a small charity with minimal administration, which insures that funds raised are given directly to local Palestinian community projects that work with children in the refugee camps. It focuses specifically on small grassroots organisations, such as youth centres, local committees, and disabled centres, and supports libraries, summer schools, as well as theatre, music, art, and dance groups. DONATE ONLINE -> www.hopingfoundation.org/donate/index.html
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Post by Avalanche on Jun 15, 2007 13:18:13 GMT
Massive Attack supports the work of the HOPING Foundation. HOPING was launched in 2003 in order to offer support and encouragement to Palestinian children living in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East. HOPING focuses specifically on small local grassroots organisations, such as youth centres, local committees, and disabled centres. HOPING supports libraries, summer schools, as well as theatre, music, art, and dance groups. Hoping stands for Hope and Optimism for Palestinians in the Next Generation. This generation will be the key to peace. Palestinian refugee children need the simple chances and ordinary possibilities that can offer them creative solutions to their lives. The most important thing we can do is to help generate these possibilities, giving Palestinian children a belief in the promise of a better future. Hoping wants us to demonstrate to Palestinian refugee children that their struggle to transform their lives is encouraged and supported by people in Britain and throughout the rest of the world. The Foundation seeks out projects and initiatives by community groups, youth activity centres, and other grassroots associations that are already working with children in the refugee camps. Hoping's aim is to encourage all aspects of the children's lives through art, music, social and sporting activities and to help with their education and health. Hoping most recently funded a specially adapted bus for severely disabled children to travel to their rehabilitation centre in Askar Camp in Nablus. Some other projects it has supported are a computer school in Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus, a video documentation youth workshop atAida Camp in Bethlehem, an oral history project in the West Bank, a children's magazine distributed to all the refugee camps in Lebanon, footballs and other sports equipment for the Union of Youth Activity Centres throughout Gaza, summer schools, schoolbags, art workshops, a special education programme for disabled children in Deheisheh Camp, and bagpipes, uniforms, and flutes for the dance troupe and scouts of Bourj al Shamali Camp in South Lebanon. Visit us at www.hopingfoundation.org and join with Palestinians' hope for a better future.
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Post by Avalanche on Jun 15, 2007 13:18:36 GMT
HOPING FOUNDATION FOR UNRWAThe Hoping Foundation would like to introduce you to the extraordinary work of UNRWA. At this moment, UNRWA is in real need of international backing and support, and we recommend you go to their website to learn more about them, and all the things they are achieving in the midst of terrible conflict. They are the one UN institution in the Middle East that is consistently working for Palestinian refugees, and HOPING supports them in their endeavour to serve them, especially the children. Earlier this week marked World Refugee Day, and the terrible predicament of Palestinian refugees is still unresolved. Until that time, this UN Agency is doing all it can to support Palestinians to support themselves. This is the message they sent us to pass on to you today: UNRWA - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - is the largest humanitarian Agency in the Middle East and works in support of Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. In often volatile and dangerous conditions, we have for 56 years provided education and vocational training to Palestine refugees along with primary health care, relief and social services, shelter and infrastructure and a range of microfinance and microenterprise programmes. Through our work, we help Palestine refugees to help themselves and most of our 26,000 staff are themselves refugees. Our vision is for each Palestine refugee to achieve his or her full potential as a productive, self-reliant and dignified member of the community. This vision, together with UNRWA's programmes, is needed more than ever during the current crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory, in order to keep hope alive for a better future. Go to www.unrwa.org and join us in our quest..... Visit us at www.unrwa.organd join with Palestinians' hope for a better future.
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