Silwan, Madaa Creative Center | سلوان
2022 This project was funded by and completed in partnerships with PfP—UK. The Madaa Creative Center was established in 2005 to serve and empower children, teenagers, and women living in Silwan.
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A great deal of work and effort goes into building these playgrounds. Some are designed and manufactured locally. When equipment is purchased abroad, parts are shipped to Palestine and assembled using local labor. We transfer ownership of the equipment to a local Palestinian NGO, school, or municipality with which we contract to assume responsibility for the playground. The land is always donated. Among PfP’s stipulations for these playgrounds is that 1) girls are given equal access as boys, 2) children are not charged for use of the playground, and 3) the local partner commits to regular maintenance and cleanup to ensure the safety of the site.
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Ein el Hilweh, Lebanon | لبنان – مخيم عين الحلوة
2009 The Najdeh Association, a local NGO working with Palestinian children in refugee camps, established a preschool in Ein El-Helweh Refugee Camp in Saida, which serves a community of Palestinian refugees. The preschool serves around 90 children, ages 3 to 5, in the mornings Sundays through Thursdays and hosts youth activities on Fridays and Saturdays
Aqraba | عقربا
2015 Aqraba is a village of approximately 8200 residents, about 18 km from the ancient city of Nablus. Traditionally, Aqraba had been a rural farming village, with many olive groves and fruit trees. Israeli confiscation of land from families in this village, as well as ongoing expansion of settlements have led to some degree of urbanization
Ein el Hilweh Al Morshid, Lebanon | روضة المرشد، مخيم عين الحلوة، لبنان
2019 Al Morshid Kindergarten is located in Ein El Hilweh
Jerusalem, Jeel Al Amal | القدس، جيل الأمل
2022 This is PfP’s second project at Jeel Al Amal School. It was funded by a Book Club in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas. Jeel Al Amal is a boy’s home accommodating 100 orphan Palestinian boys. They are educated at Jeel Al Amal primary co-ed school together with 250 girls. The school is located
Women’s Union Kindergarten at Burj el Shamali | برج إلشمالي
2019 This playground was funded by PfP-UK, our sister organization in the United Kingdom. The Rashidieh refugee camp is located on the coast of Lebanon, south of the city of Tyre. According to the UNRWA, there are 34,584 people registered in the camp as of June 2018. There are four schools in Rashidieh serving more
Abushkhedim | أبو شخيدم
2024 This playground was built in loving memory of Mariam Sheikha (12.25.2021 — 01.09.2022) by her parents Sabah Yusuf and Mudassir Sheikha. The playground serves four adjacent villages, including Birzeit, Cobar, AbuQash, and Abushkhedim. The approximate number of children who use the playground is 4,300 ranging in ages from toddlers to 15 years.
Lebanon, Mia Mieh | لبنان، المية ومية
2019 This playground was built in partnership with UNRWA at the Baraaem Kindergarten in the Mia Mieh refugee camp is located south of the city of Saida. The camp was established in 1954 and extends over an area of 54,000 sq m. The camp survived a series of major events in 1982, when the
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From the legacies of our ancestors through the land that holds all our roots and all of our stories, Palestinian farmers persist in the traditions of the olive trees, and bring you the nectar of Palestine’s noble fruit so that we might also build spaces of love and play for Palestine’s children.
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