Showing posts with label Palestinian Working Women Society for Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palestinian Working Women Society for Development. Show all posts
Monday, 27 December 2010
Monday, 27 August 2007
Jumna-Palestinian Working Women Society for Development
Jumna wants to show us life for her in Ramallah and outside. This is the wall, that blocked a main road. You used to be able to go straight on this road. Her family now lives on the other side of the wall, and she has a difficult time getting there. The house that you see on the other side of the wall is her families home. This is where her parents live. She used to visit them at least once a week now if she is lucky, she can see them once a month.
This is a view of Jerusalem. She loves Jerusalem and it is one of her favorite cities.
Jumna also took a photograph of the traffic back up at the checkpoint in Ramallah from her car.
This is a view from her office where she works in Ramallah.
Gadeer- Palestinian Working Women's Society for Development
Gadeer takes us on a trip to where her old home was located, this photograph is at the Ramallah checkpoint. The women are scared to take photographs of the checkpoints from outside of the vehicles. She wants us to see her land that she cannot get to or work on anymore.
Wafa- Palestinian Working Women's Society for Development
As time goes by, more often than not, the State of Israel randomly shuts off the water in the West Bank. Sometimes the water is turned off for a week at a time, they have also started to enlist on and off days with limited water pressure and times that they are only allowed to use the water. It has become necessary to collect rain water, in cisterns like in the old days. Wafa is lucky enough to have one in her courtyard.Water is a main issue between Israel and the Palestinians. When the wall was build, the state of Israel sieged as many water wells along the wall as possible, weaving the wall to include the wells on to the Israeli side. Soon, I will show photographs of the wall, that the Palestinians call the snake because of the winding view of the wall that excludes water wells and agriculture from the Palestinian side.
Wafa is a member of the Society, she chose to take photographs of preparing for a wedding. However, most of the photographs she took were inside, and the room was too dark for the camera with flash. The flash is not so strong, and she was sad that most of her photographs did not turn out. Above, are two little girls dressed in traditional dresses for the wedding. The design is traditional and the dress is made by hand.
Above, is the henna that the bride puts on her hand before the wedding...
Above is the mother of the bride.
This is a photograph of a view from her window at work. It is a taxi station near the center in Ramallah.
This is also another view from the window at her work.
Working Women Society for Development
The society is located in the Ramallah center, they focus on women's needs and issues. They generate awareness and work with handicrafts and food services. They teach for women's empowerment and give training on how to be active in the legal decision making process. They advertise through the local radio and newspapers.
The laws neglect womans rights and are not focused on women. This organization helps to create awareness on those issues are effect women. The society also provides social counseling, mostly secular, but they will not close the doors on any women that requests it. They train Candidates to be assertive and to become gender sensitive. They like to work on identity issues and to help women form identities. This interest is why they wanted to participate in my project!
They informed me that the families still participate in honor killings, and men serve less time for the homicides. Women do not have the right to divorce, and need the approval of the husband.
The population is falling into severe poverty, and when that happens the population "puts away their daily life activities and become depressed."
The laws neglect womans rights and are not focused on women. This organization helps to create awareness on those issues are effect women. The society also provides social counseling, mostly secular, but they will not close the doors on any women that requests it. They train Candidates to be assertive and to become gender sensitive. They like to work on identity issues and to help women form identities. This interest is why they wanted to participate in my project!
They informed me that the families still participate in honor killings, and men serve less time for the homicides. Women do not have the right to divorce, and need the approval of the husband.
The population is falling into severe poverty, and when that happens the population "puts away their daily life activities and become depressed."
Welcome to Ramallah
I started two new groups in Ramallah, one with the Tamer Institute and the other with the Working Women Society for Development. The Tamer Institute is a youth group of girls ages 15 and one boy. This is what Ramallah looks like, it is surrounded by the wall, with one entry and exit point. The photograph above is the city center.
This is on one of the main streets, notice the Star Bucks coffee store.
Typical shopping street.
Taxi drivers.
A falafal and sharwma stand.
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