The blog for the Twinning in Action project 2014-2016 organised by CADFA www.cadfa.org

Sunday 15 November 2015

Twinning in Action autumn update

We're delighted that Erasmus +  have given us the go-ahead to take Twinning in Action groups to Palestine!  

 This has happened at a very difficult time in Palestine, and on the advice of our friends there we have postponed the first of these visits till 2016.  What is happening in Palestine now? See the CADFA statement last week here.

The first of the visits will be a leaders' training in February, and during the next year this will be followed by a visit for university students, a women's visit, a youth visit all to Palestine. Then in September 2016, we will have the final leaders' visit which will review the whole project. Look out for the TWINNING IN ACTION CONFERENCE in September 2016, Details will follow.

In the meantime, our links groups continue to be active.  

WOMEN'S LINKS have started organising a weekly stall at the Brunswick Centre - and also preparing for a women's day during the CADFA teachers' visit to London in January. 

YOUTH LINKS have been protesting against the treatment of young people in Palestine with street activities and letters to MPs and also baking cakes to raise money towards the youth visit 

STUDENT LINKS are having a planning meeting this week on Wednesday 18th November.

TEACHERS' LINKS are building in preparation for our teachers' project starting January - see here.

We really need to strengthen the links between the two countries for each of these. We want to get more of our work on to the blogs! Our new EVS volunteers are helping tackle this in the UK (see their blog here) and we hope that local volunteers in Dar Assadaqa will respond, though we have no EVS volunteers there at present.

If you're reading this, we hope you'll be part of this work - Do contact us at contact@cadfa.org for more information.