Getting ready for the leaders' visit to Palestine

A year ago, the Twinning in Action project began with a leader's training.  The Palestinian group flew to Newcastle (see picture) before joining the UK group in the Lake District and later London. It was a great start to the first year of this project.

The second leaders' training of the Twinning in Action project will take place in the new year 2016. It will include people from the UK and Palestine who took part in the first one in December 2014, but also some new people.  There will be people from Camden and Abu Dis from our different links groups (working with students, youth and women) and we're also pleased that the group will include people from other places in the UK and Palestine that have twinning partners in the other country or want to make new links. We're looking forward to meeting old friends and new very soon and getting the second main phase of the project under way.

CADFA student visit to Palestine in February.

 Since the CADFA Twinning in Action university students' visit to the UK (February 2015) many new student links have developed. At Goldsmith's College and Leeds University, new twinning links are being proposed with Al Quds University.  Preparations are going ahead for the next CADFA student exchange which will also be part of the Twinning in Action project - this will be a visit to Palestine in February next year and is being organised with the Al Quds University.  In both countries, volunteers have been talking in universities, inviting interest, working on the student blog. The programme is going into place and recently there was a Skype meeting between the two countries. (Pictures show some of the students involved in the student visit to the UK last February; CADFA volunteer speaking at a university; Skype meeting - this is students at Al Quds University photographed from Camden!)