Preparing for the youth visit

The Twinning in Action women's exchange is still a recent memory - "I haven't digested it all yet" said one of the participants recently - but CADFA is preparing now for the final youth exchange of the Twinning in Action project: the youth visit to Palestine."It's so exciting," said one of the young people preparing to travel, "I can't believe I'm going!"  But in less than a week - after over a year in preparation - the UK group will be travelling to Palestine.

The Twinning in Action youth visit to the UK is much further back in memory - Here are some pictures to remind us - That was an amazing experience for the people from both countries,  in Norwich, Cambridge and London... and originally the whole of the UK group of participants wanted to join the exchange to Palestine, and this is what they said...

Why do we want to visit Palestine

By CADFA Youth Links

To learn about Palestinian culture

To understand Palestinian life

To learn more about Palestinian restrictions and their treatment
To actually see the things we’ve learned about for example checkpoints and the Wall

To see different things and places

To visit Jerusalem

To see the Dead Sea

To see the people we met again

To learn more Arabic and teach some English

To eat Palestinian food

To come home and be able to tell our own stories and experiences

It took a long time for this exchange to be agreed by the funder, Erasmus +, and not all of the original group of young people will be able to come this time. But old group or new participant, we're all looking forward!

Here are the objectives of thIs exchange...

• To bring young people from Britain to meet and exchange experiences with their counterparts from Palestine

• To increase their awareness of human rights issues and to challenge discrimination

•  To give them an opportunity to make some film together about their lives as young people

• To build on previous work that CADFA has done and strengthen twinning links between schools and youth clubs in Britain and in Palestine