Winter Camp – Investment rights

The Youth Action Center for Community Development concluded its first winter camp, which was titled Investment in RightsHuman coordinationCooperation with the Pioneer Center for Culture and Arts, over four consecutive days with the participation of about 50 participants and participants from Bethlehem governorate and under the supervision of a team of trainers and supervisors of the events and activities of the first winter camp.The camp began with a training session in the centre, to break down the ice between participants and introduce them to the goals of the winter camp in addition to a range of communication exercises and mechanisms of work within the team Through the division of working groups and a presentation of the camp program, led by Professor Nizar Al-IssaOn the second day of the program, the participants went to the village of Al-Walajeh on field visits, and the first stop was the 5,500-year-old Bedouin tree ( olive tree ) visits and And the meeting with Mr. Salah Abu Ali, who explained how important this tree is, as well as the suffering of farmers through the apartheid wall that is located on farmers’ land, and then the participants went to omar Hajjala’s house, which is located inside the apartheid wall, and the audience listened to a detailed explanation of the suffering of the Hajjala family daily and the living reality of the family.After that, the director of the Palestinian Authority for Human Rights was met. lawyer Farid Al-Atrash also gave the legal opinion on the suffering of the people of the village of Al-Walajah and the attack that is constantly being practised rightly The people of the village of Al-Walaja. At the end of the meeting, a public debate was opened and many questions were asked about the village of Al-Walaja and the daily living conditions under the siege of the village. One of the activities of the third day, which included a path in the embrace of nature in the village of Bitir through the land of al-Makhrour and with the participation of an Irish Holy family, children and young people participated in the activity of drawing in the embrace of nature and during the course participants listened to a lecture entitled the importance of volunteering in the community presented by the director of the centre Naji Odeh and after the lecture the youth carried out an initiative to clean up part of the path of the ruined.The camp concluded with a tour of the village of Wadi Fokin, during which he briefed the youth on the reality of the town, especially since the village of Wadi Fokin is surrounded by a series of israle settlements and the conditions of farmers in the village, Professor Mazen Al-Azza gave an explanation of life in the village and touched To the importance of supporting farmers and seeing their circumstances and the participants visited The Eye of the Friend The day ended with the recommendations of the camp participants being heard.The director of the Laylac Center thanked the participants for their commitment to the camp program, praised the role of volunteers who worked hard to make the camp a success, and thanked the Al Rawad Center for Culture and The Arts for its material and in-kind support for the camp.