Update on the women’s visit
Thanks to everyone who could take part in our meeting when
the Palestinian women were here. Sorry it was very difficult because of the
technology.
Where we are at the moment
1 – Dates for the visit: we are suggesting now
Thurs 12th March to Monday 23rd March
2 – Places: many groups are interested and we
are happy to design a programme that starts in North Wales with a residential
for the group together, finishes in London all together and divides into groups en route to make sure we can include all of
these places. We have done this before
and it has worked well.
The ones in green capitals are our PARTNERS in this visit (we are bringing visitors from their partner places in Palestine) (added here in small green letters)
·
Bangor/ Carmarthen
·
LLANIDLOES (As Sawiya)
·
Knighton
·
PENDLE (Beit Leed)
·
Worcester
·
Leamington
·
NORTHAMPTON (Al Bireh)
·
HACKNEY (Beit Sourik)
·
South East London
·
Tower Hamlets (possible
partner, not confirmed ... Jenin)
·
CAMDEN
(well this is us ... Abu Dis)
5. Singing –
The theme of the visit is singing (but human rights is the aim and cultural
exchange as usual of course) and the name is taken from our ‘Common Ground’
music visit when a choir in Aberystwyth added a song called ‘Come and Sing’ to
the project... it was taken over and became central to a number of performances
(‘Come and sing for Palestine’)
5- Context -
This exchange is run by CADFA which has done many similar things, see our
website www.camdenabudis.net. Please look out for our book and film ‘
Stories from our Mothers’ and also the project blogs of previous women’s visits
– see the women’s webpage
on our website.
4 –Objectives – The objectives of the Come and
Sing are
·
To strengthen the links
between organisations in Britain and Palestine
·
For young women from the UK and Palestine to
meet, learn about the other country and its culture and compare similarities
and differences in their lives.
·
To increase their awareness
of human rights issues and to challenge discrimination
·
To give them an opportunity
to share singing together and with people in other groups
5 - Organisation
– We will draw up a memo of understanding with our partner groups to
try and ensure that we work together with the same assumptions and
understandings. Your input is important
at all stages! We will be the key co-ordinators and please if groups liaise (do
of course) then keep us in the loop.
6 - Communication. It’s important that we are
all properly in touch and email will be important – we’ll also make a dropbox
for info we all need and send our partners a link. We will also be using a blog for the
visit – details to follow.
7- Palestinian visitors. Twelve of the group
have their applications for visas in now. We are still
talking to our friends in Llanidloes and Tower Hamlets about visitors
from their twinning places. We have a few days because we have postponed the
visit slightly (see above)
8- Participants from the UK. This visit is a
great opportunity for women here to spend time with the Palestinian women and
we’d like to hear as soon as possible from people who are interested in doing
this. We have an application form on the Twinning in Action web-page .
Main participants who are young women
(under 25 and some under 30) but there are ways for women above
that age to be involved – don’t hesitate to ask about this.
We welcome applications from anywhere and will be
particularly happy to have them from the groups that are partners in the
project. There is no charge for the residential but we do ask people who join it
to join CADFA and to commit to doing a report at the end and some feedback to
follow. Please direct people to us with their questions as soon as possible!
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