We've now been back from Palestine and the women's exchange for a bit over a week, and judging from their Facebooks and from our What's App chats, everyone is working hard to digest a really intense experience. So many things - this post isn't trying to record it all - and I've come back with so many photos, too, that the ones on here are just a random collection: not the best, not the most representative - just some of the pictures, and not even in order. But I'm going to try and explain them anyway, now by chance they have landed here.
(1) A preparation meeting in Camden... seems so long ago!
(2) During the residential in Beit Sahour, we started talking - and we started sewing - which were both themes throughout the visit
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(3) Two of many happy photos of women from the UK/Europe and Palestine And of children. These two I think on a rooftop in Battir just before lunch... I think Lucia was doing an interview??
(4) Some of the group at breakfast time in the university accommodation in Abu Dis...
(5) HOT in Jericho on an amazing Friday day out
(7) Lots of photography
(8) Lots of meetings, this one in Hebron
(9) Lots of eating and some cooking. Here musakhan in Battir
(10) Really loved the energy and friendliness of this lovely group (including the people who are not in this picture)
(11) Hebron. Should be a town of amazing beauty.
(12) But it is strangled and bullied by settlers, backed by soldiers.
(13) And the settlements are spreading fast across the Palestinian countryside.
(14) We went with our friends from the Saraya Centre and saw some of the villages near Jerusalem that had been cleared of their Palestinian inhabitants in 1948. Here is Lifta, heartbreaking.
(15) This beautiful plant called 'crazy' in Arabic that grows all over things and brings beauty to the saddest places.
(16) A special greeting to the women of Dar Assadaqa - we will stay in touch with you and with all of our new friends. We learned so much, and we will not forget.
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