Visit of the Palestinian ambassador in UK and the Minister of Sport in Palestine in CADFA

Last Monday was a special day for CADFA because we had some special guests : Jibril Rajoub, the Ministry of Sport in Palestine and Manuel Hassassian, the Palestinian ambassador in UK.

Jibril Rajoub had to do some visits in UK and France. Shahd, who had got in touch with him, asked him to come to visit us in our office. The meeting was attended by Nandita (director of CADFA), some previous volunteers involved in Palestine and the current volunteers involved in London and also some CADFA friends.
He didn't know about CADFA before so we explainded to him about the aims of our organization and its different actions and projects.

He said that he was very interested and offered us his support and help in developping our many ideas into concrete projects.

We would like to thanks him and the ambassador to have come to visit us. We were really happy to meet them and we hope to keep the link between them and us.

James and Lawson, a CADFA friend and a previous cadfa volunteer in Palestine, made a video-recording of the visit. We will post it as soon as it is ready! So that it will become clearer for you than only this short dscription....

Enjoy!

EVS training, work, and trips

In the last two weeks, I've had the chance to work and travel to different locations in England. Our EVS training took place in Nottingham, a very friendly town by the river which we had the time to explore with the other volunteers. Our group at the training was quite small, but we met people from France, Spain, and Italy and had the chance to talk about the differences between our countries and England.

   

Yesterday, I also went to Brighton, to help with translating for 3 Palestinians who are traveling in the UK and giving talks about their lives and situation in our country. They were telling about the Deir Yassin massacre, in which one of the 3 speakers lost 11 people of her family. It's great to have such a varied timetable, working every day on different projects and meeting amazing people along the way. 

Arabic lessons at CADFA

Arabic lessons at CADFA

Two weeks ago, we started the new Arabic lessons at the office! Although we just had a couple of people for the first session, it was fun, and also interesting for us volunteers to teach for the first time!

We will now conduct Arabic classes every Monday and Friday between 6.30 and 8.30, with the help of books of Palestinian dialect, which CADFA is also selling in the office. It will be a good way for beginners - and non - to learn new words and practise speaking with native Palestinians! So please join us if you haven't done so already and I hope to meet many old and new friends at our future classes.

On Wednesday 19th march 2014 we (Lucile , Shahd ) went to Camden town station to hand out Adam and Johar  leaflets , we were  talking  to the  people there and answering  questions , we invited them to join as in our association as well , it's a good experience to go out and contact people to convince them about your ideas !

When  we just finish the women visit event , me ( Shahd )and Lucile started to go to schools ,we went to Maria Fidelis school and ULS school , we spent a good time with the girls there  ,such as writing on blog together and giving  them an introduction what shall we during our staying in London  as a EVS volunteer .

Me (Shahd ) ,Najwa,Karamah,Rana,Walaa and Bayan at New Cross gate station . 

            "    As long as we share our stories ; as long as we can  show the  people the reality "

This picture was taken  at  New Cross  Thursday on 6th march 2014   , while Rana , Bayan. and  Shahd  were talking about the situation in Palestine.
 "Bayan told the story of a girl with special needs, who died at an Israeli checkpoint because they did not allow her to go to the hospital , Rana told us about the suffering of the prisoners wives in Palestine as well .