News & Activities

Children in Emergency
2008-10-13

Mr. Farid Abu Gosh has left to Budapest, Hungary to particpate in the Annual Consultation group conference on Children in Emergencies that takes place on October 13-16, 2008, Convened by the Consultative Group on ECCD Hosted by the International Step by Step Association.

Farid will be one of the speakers at the conference where he will present the Trust  and working with young children/families in emergency situations -  how para-professional community-based workers build on local knowledge/assets, keep families together, combat domestic violence and prevent early marriages
Study Day - Mother-to-Mother program Study Day - Mother-to-Mother program
2008-05-29

On 29.5.08, sixty paraprofessional mothers participated in our study day held at Al-kasmi College in Baqa.  The day was on "Dynamic development" and at the end of the day we distributed graduation certificates for 37 paraprofessional mothers who successfully finished the training course.
Young Women Empowerment
2008-06-10

We proudly ended this year's training course of the Young women in Jerusalem with the graduation of 17 young ambitious women on 10.6.08.

The program was also in cooperation with the Women's legal counseling centre, who conducted five workshops on women and human rights.
Study Day of Learn-by-Play program Study Day of Learn-by-Play program
2008-03-19

Study day on "positive reassuring and acceptance"

That was held on 19th March 2008 at the Trust's office in Biddo, with Forty-six attendants from the eight villages North West of Jerusalem working in the Learn-by-Play Program, which is currently implemented at 11 schools and benefiting 420 pupils.


Activity Day Activity Day
2008-05-31

on 31/5/2008, Activity day for the area of the villages north west of Jerusalem:

 

The Trust made a trip for the pupils of the learn-by-play program, to celebrate the end of another school year and to encourage them from their hard work and better achievement.

The children enjoyed a day full of activities, swimming, singing, dances from the folklore and wearing hand made masks.

The day was very special because all of the staff participated in preparing and implementing and drawing a smile on the children's faces.

400 pupils participated, boys and girls ages 7 to 11 years old accompanied by their tutor, the program coordinators and some of their school teachers and parents.

 
Opening of Trust office in Biddo Opening of Trust office in Biddo
2008-06-05

On Wednesday 28th May, 2008, the opening of our new Centre in Biddo took place under the auspices of Caritas Germany

Represented by Mr. Christoph Klitsch-Ott & Dr. Frank Ballot  And the presence of our guest  Mr.Thomas Weich from German Representative Office in Ramallah who expressed his happiness of the opening of the new office and the services it will offer to the villages towards community development.

The opening of this centre is the fruit of the Trust's "Combating Domestic Violence program" which has been implemented for the past three years at the villages north west of Jerusalem which is being sponsored by the B.M.Z. in cooperation with Caritas Germany.


conference In Ramle
2008-02-20

On Tuesday 12/2/2008 the Trust held a conference At the community Center for development of Arab Areas in Ramle on

"Arab women and Girls In Ramle and Lod"

Where we presented the phenomenon of Violence against women from the Social, Legal, and Religious points of view.

The conference was very successful and several newspapers wrote about it, you can read one of these articles on the following website: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/954440.html

  1. and following is Farid's (president of the Trust) opening statement for that day:

 

Arab Women and Young Girls Conference In Ramle and Lod

By

Farid Abu Ghosh

 

Greetings and welcome to all:

 

The Trust of programs for Early Childhood, family, and Community Education in Arab communities is honored to hold this conference hoping that this initiative would help to encourage the advance of family and community programs which will help to improve the quality of life within our communities in Ramle and Lod.

 

I would like to stress that the Trust is a non-profit organization with no political or religious affiliation. Our focus has, always, been on the local needs of the cities and villages which we are making the utmost effort to serve in a professionally programmed manner. Our organization has been serving both in Ramle and Lod since 1984 executing a number of projects mainly Mother-to-Mother, Kindergartens, and Young women programs. In executing its different programs the Trust believe that the family is the cornerstone for fundamentally developing community that is able to empower its members and make it possible for them to excel and conform.

 

Happiness of a family cannot take place unless the marriage union is built on a solid foundation set forth by the community values and all three monotheistic religions that could be summarized in four words no body can challenge: “Union, Tranquility, Love and Mercy”. As mentioned in the Holly Kora’an: In the name of God the Gracious, the most merciful:  “We have created from among yourself a wife whom you live with and he made your relations blessed by tranquility and mercy.” Verse 21 from Sourat Al-Room.

Likewise, Christianity states that the family is one body built on the exchange of Respect and Love. When one part feels pain the whole body feels the pain. Also Judaism considers marriage as a relation between two people that become one body.

 

Had our society followed these values which define marital and family relationships, there would not be tyrants and victims or oppressors and oppressed.

 

I would like to thank all official and non-official organizers of this conference and all those who participated in its preparation. I am hoping we will come out of this conference with specific proposals for participants in community empowerment through helping those marginalized segments of the community and to enable them to actively participate in strengthening the family and the community.

 
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