Dana`s feedback

CADFA PROJECT FEEDBACK FORM

Name :dana atef arja

Project : kids visit ‘’ common ground’’ summer 2013

Project dates : 15/08/2013 – 30/08/2013

 

What feedback did you do? Where/ when/ to whom?

I’ve made a presentation and a small discussion in ( Feminist Association)
to group of working women.
that was in 25/10/2013

Why did you choose that sort of feedback? Because (women) are one of the target groups by CADFA .. and because there is a (women visit) which done yearly by CADFA.

How did it go?  It went really well and all women were very interested and asked for CADFA website to get to know more about it and its aims and projects .

What went well?

The whole discussion / everything.

What did not go so well?

Nothing J

Ideas for future work (this might include feedback from people who heard you – what did they suggest?)

The women suggested that there are too many feminist association make products CADFA may be interested in .. and for the future visits CADFA could sell some of these products in UK as CADFA used to do with zaatar .. olive oil ... etc 

 

Evidence attached: Please return us photos/ article/ other evidence of feedback – we will often use this on the project blog! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should be returned to CADFA/ Dar Assadaqa within six weeks of the end of the exchange.

Explanation – Feedback after CADFA projects

We are very concerned that our projects are not just for the people who join the visits but reach other people – schools, colleges, organisations, newspapers...  We participants to do formal feedback as part of each project and it helps us to build for the future. For this reason we take a deposit from people before they join the project and we ask them to do one of the following within six weeks of the end of the project.  When you’ve done this we’ll return your deposit.

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Acceptable feedback

A talk to an organisation/ an article in a student paper or newsletter/ an exhibition of your photographs or videos/ other (discuss with us)  

Best wishes - CADFA and Dar Assadaqa.

 

Waad`s feedback

CADFA PROJECT FEEDBACK FORM

Name   waad shqerat

Project  Common Ground Project

Project dates  15\8 – 30\8\2013

 

What feedback did you do? Where/ when/ to whom?

I talked about this experience with my family, friends in an informal way.

Also I went to East Sawahrah Secondary Girls School (my old school) were I arranged it with the English teacher there and it was on Wednesday

, 9\10\2013. And it was for the eleventh grade.  

Why did you choose that sort of feedback?

First of all to tell them about my experience, and what we did there, also to tell them about the kind of work  that CADFA do, including Human Rights, and the activities that are happening at Dar assadaqa.

How did it go? 

I had pictures and a video to show but because of special circumstances I couldn’t do that.

What went well?

They were really interested in what I had to say, and they wanted to be part of the activities that are happening at  Dar assadaqa, also they wanted to know if they can participate in one of these projects.

What did not go so well?

Just the fact that I couldn’t show them the pictures or the video. 

 

Ideas for future work (this might include feedback from people who heard you – what did they suggest?)

One thing they kept asking me about  is why there school wasn’t involved with Dar assadaqa or the Twinning links.  

Evidence attached: Please return us photos/ article/ other evidence of feedback – we will often use this on the project blog! 

 

P.S These pictures were taken by Mary

This should be returned to CADFA/ Dar Assadaqa within six weeks of the end of the exchange.

Explanation – Feedback after CADFA projects

We are very concerned that our projects are not just for the people who join the visits but reach other people – schools, colleges, organisations, newspapers...  We participants to do formal feedback as part of each project and it helps us to build for the future. For this reason we take a deposit from people before they join the project and we ask them to do one of the following within six weeks of the end of the project.  When you’ve done this we’ll return your deposit.

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Acceptable feedback

A talk to an organisation/ an article in a student paper or newsletter/ an exhibition of your photographs or videos/ other (discuss with us)  

Best wishes - CADFA and Dar Assadaqa.

 

 

Mira`s feedback

CADFA PROJECT FEEDBACK FORM

Name: Mira Ziad khamees Bahar   

Project: Common ground project

Project dates: 9/9/2013

 

What feedback did you do? Where/ when/ to whom?

I have to lay down and view the project to the students and teachers of Abu Dis Girls High School on Monday, 09/09/2013

Why did you choose that sort of feedback?

 

How did it go? 

I have to talk to the students about the experience that I've made ​​and the flight to Britain, and I told them about the beautiful things and additions to add this experience to me has met with applause and admiration of students and teachers

 

What went well? Like the students in this project and their willingness to do this experiment

 

What did not go so well? Did not  something bad happens

 

 

Ideas for future work (this might include feedback from people who heard you – what did they suggest?)

To do the work of Britain's summer camps for Palestinian groups to work on strengthening the English language through the British so groups and help them learn

 

Evidence attached: Please return us photos/ article/ other evidence of feedback – we will often use this on the project blog! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should be returned to CADFA/ Dar Assadaqa within six weeks of the end of the exchange.

Explanation – Feedback after CADFA projects

We are very concerned that our projects are not just for the people who join the visits but reach other people – schools, colleges, organisations, newspapers...  We participants to do formal feedback as part of each project and it helps us to build for the future. For this reason we take a deposit from people before they join the project and we ask them to do one of the following within six weeks of the end of the project.  When you’ve done this we’ll return your deposit.

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Acceptable feedback

A talk to an organisation/ an article in a student paper or newsletter/ an exhibition of your photographs or videos/ other (discuss with us)  

Best wishes - CADFA and Dar Assadaqa.

 

 

From Worcester News

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/10636726.Young_Palestinians_enjoy_taste_of_freedom_on_trip/

PALESTINIAN children, including a teenage boy who claims to have been tortured by soldiers, have enjoyed a visit to “beautiful” Worcester.

Mohammed Jaffal, aged 14, from the West Bank, says he was tortured by Israeli soldiers after they broke into his house in the middle of the night. Mohammed, one of 16 children from Palestine to visit Worcester, described how he was seized by the troops, bundled into a jeep, taken to a military compound and blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, beaten and forced to kneel down on stones for half an hour.

However, Mohammed and the other young musicians from the troublespot have had a chance to sample a more carefree life, visiting the Hive,Worcester Cathedraland the Guildhall where they met the city mayor Pat Agar. Drummer Mohammed and his friends played in a concert at St George’s Catholic Church, including Palestinian and British songs. During the day they played football, talked about their experiences, met other children from Britain with a very different way of life and were able to connect with each other through music, drama, the arts and sport.

Mohammed, speaking from the Horizon Centre in Midland Road, Worcester, which hosted part of their visit to the city, said: “Everything is different here. “There are so many wide open spaces for me to play. It’s so green. It is beautiful.”

The visit is part of an initiative called Common Ground by the Worcester Palestine Friendship group and is organised by the Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association (CADFA). Seven children from Gaza, who attend a centre called Never Stop Dreaming, were not able to fly to Britain because of ongoing unrest in Egypt, although they may be able to travel here within the next six months. During the project, which comes to an end tomorrow, the children will able to mix with others from Knighton, Aberystwyth, Worcester, Oxford, Northampton and London.

Nandita Dowson, director of CADFA, said: “They were able to go on the hills and go into rivers. “The thing that strikes the Palestinians is people’s freedom to move and go wherever they want. They do feel imprisoned. This is their first taste of freedom. Just going paddling in a river is heaven for them.” Their homes in the West Bank are divided from Jerusalem by the controversial Separation Wall and they are now cut off from the Dead Sea, the Mediterranean and the River Jordan.

Abdul Wahab Sabbah, Abu Dis co-ordinator, said the children here were of a generation born under occupation who could not remember a time before the wall had been built.

He said the experience for the children had been “unbelievable”. He added: “It is a lifetime’s journey for them.”

Coun Jabba Riaz was also there to welcome the children. He said: “It’s good to see the children are getting a taste of freedom.”

The centre, which is run by Worcester Community Trust, gave each child a T-shirt and a football.

Thank you for the thank you - It was a pleasure.

Ghada Rushdi EdwanCadfa (Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association)

I would like to say thank you for every one in cadfa for their efforts ....for the look of happiness I Saw in Hakeem,s eyes , for the taste of freedom he has between our real friends there ....thank you again on his behalf and let me wish you good luck and Welcome to PAlestine

(this picture was from ANOTHER kids' visit to Britain)

Thank you Ghada :)

Glad you're home safely

Dear friends of ours in Palestine

**ilhamdullah la salamitkum**

Hear it was a hard long journey but you are all safely there. Hurray!

Hope you find your families well and get some rest now... We loved having you here and will stay in touch with you all.

More soon!  :) :)

from your friends across the UK

Aberystwyth - Knighton - Worcester - Oxford - Northampton - Waltham Forest and of course Camden :)

Good luck Carl

Carl from Worcester has included a picture of some of the Palestinian visitors in his entry to a photo competition related to Worcester cathedral.  This one is called 'Palestinian youngsters looking for the pink giraffe.' Yes apparently there is a pink giraffe in one of the stained-glass windows.  Good luck, hope you win :)

Waltham Forest local paper

This is part of a short article in the Waltham Forest local paper - You can see the whole thing here...

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/10643079.Palestinian_teens_take_tour_of_William_Morris_Gallery/

Waltham Forest day

Flying over London

A very early morning start, but it was lovely near the river...

and on the boat through the  middle of London...

 

West Bank youngsters enjoy taste of freedom (from Worcestershire newspaper)

This article can be found here:

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/10636726.Young_Palestinians_enjoy_taste_of_freedom_on_trip/

Things we want to remember (from the Palestinians)

the camp
People who helped us
the concerts
Kefaya band
the river
the nature
the stall
singing
the friendship
Panpunton Hill

New things we found on this project (from the Palestinian kids)

the nature
the freedom
the cable car
someone flying on the water
the boat on the river
the plane
the tube
greenness
the flat fields (suhool, is that what was meant?)
the weather
no occupation
the sky here
camping

Waiting in Gaza

This isn't a picture of our Gaza visitors, but other people waiting at Rafah crossing hoping to travel. We gave up some time ago on the idea of bringing the Gaza children with this visit but as soon as this is finished, we'll get to work to see how else they can come. What a pity they haven't been here with us...

Palestinian visitors make bold statement...

Here's a bit from the Northampton Chronicle about the children's visit there (I think we should point out to the UK kids who get forgotten here that what is in the press is not always completely accurate...)

You can see it at http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/community/palestinian-visitors-make-bold-statement-in-northampton-town-centre-1-5427478
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Young Palestinian visitors to Northampton have marched along Abington Street blindfolded and handcuffed, to highlight the treatment of children in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The demonstration on Saturday also featured street art and a free public concert at the central library, attended by the mayor of Northampton, Les Marriott.  

The young Palestinians are taking part in a summer camp and concert tour organised by CADFA, a London twinning association, and the Northampton event was organised by Northampton Al-Bireh (Palestine) Friendship Association.

Julia Bush, from the Northampton Al-Bireh (Palestine) Friendship Association, said: “The youngsters delighted a packed audience with their skills as singers, dancers and instrumentalists - as well as their excellent English.”

On the radio in Hereford and Worcester

Please follow this link to the BBC Iplayer for Sundays show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dts53

Listen to the bit 1 hour and 17/18 minutes in... not all quite correct but that is how it goes...

Does anyone have links to the recording made in Knighton? (or any others??)

A beautiful concert at Rosslyn Hill

Special thanks to Camilla for all her work on the music, Charlie for taking part and coming all the way from Knighton, Al and Giuliano for amazing music, Haya for speaking - also Annika, Will, Andy for help organising, Mousa for carrying things and helping arrange the hall, Ibrahim and Mary for the stall... Thank you to Rosslyn Hill for letting us use that lovely place with the beautiful sound. 

And well done to all the young people: it was truly memorable :)