Palestinian women's visit 2012: For UK friends - Help with the women's visit...

Saturday 11 February 2012

For UK friends - Help with the women's visit...

Dear CADFA members and friends

** Next women's links meeting is on TUESDAY at 6pm at Kentish Town Community Centre, 25 Greenwood Place NW5 **

The CADFA Women's Links group is working hard on organising a visit of Palestinian women to Britain in mid-March. We have had a women's visit on or around International Women's Day every year since 2006, and this year the visit focuses on young women from across the West Bank. They are coming on in a visit part-funded by Youth in Action, with a focus on sharing skills as well as life stories and discussions of women, change, Palestine and human rights.

These are great visits! We hope you will meet the women visitors and there will be many opportunities to meet them. Right now please put thse dates in your diary: the evening of 20th March and all day on on Saturday 24th March

Now we also need your help. Fundraising is a big priority at the moment, as the visit will cost thousands of pounds and Youth in Action money will only go some of the way.

CADFA has big financial problems when we take on this sort of project and we do not manage to get the match-funding before it starts - we absolutely have to this time. See below for things coming up - we hope that you can join in or support these initiatives!

Please note our fundraising page...... http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/finalCharityHomepage.action?charityId=1001930&pageId=162738

PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN, BIG OR SMALL, TO HELP – Thank you.

Fundraising RAFFLE with an amazing first prize, see

http://www.camdenabudis.net/docs/Fundraising%20Raffle%20for%20Palestinian%20Women.pdf

Tickets £1, book of five £5 – Will you order some books and buy and sell some?

On Tuesday 21st February at 7pm we will provide refreshments (you can have a full meal) at our CADFA open meeting, details to follow.

Book n bake sale on Saturday 25th February – venue to be decided – but we would like Your home-made cakes Your old books in good condition Your help to run a stall

Sponsored walk on Sunday 4^th March joining the women’s centres in Camden –– approx 6 miles, most scenic routes chosen. Will you join in and get sponsors? And or will you sponsor us?

Would you, your organisation or your union branch etc help by making a donation towards the women’s visit?

Please note our fundraising page...... http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/finalCharityHomepage.action?charityId=1001930&pageId=162738

and our email address: contact@camdenabudis.net

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'Old Skills, New Skills' - what is this about?

This exchange will bring ten young women from Palestine to spend ten days with ten young women from the UK. The project will give them an opportunity to find out about each other's lives as young women in Palestine and Britain and in country and city. They will prepare and teach each other a variety of skills, contrast the skills women had in the past and that young women need now and consider together how women's lives are changing. They will take pictures, video and write about the experience to make web material to record this experience.

Before the exchange both groups of women will research and prepare skills to teach the other group as part of the programme. The exchange visit in Britain will be divided into three parts. The first part will be spent in the British countryside looking at old craft skills. The second part will be groupwork with women's groups in London looking at the city and at women's lives now. During the third part participants will develop their IT skills to make animated films about women's lives and t to shape a website. They will prepare presentations for a final workshop on women's lives and human rights to which other people will also be invited.

Contact between the women and work on the website will continue after the exchange and there will be a public launch of the website in autumn 2012.