VIDEO: Building water purification units in Gaza
Check out this short video to see how the water purification and desalination units we build through our Maia Project are made in Gaza! These two units were funded by ZamZamWater and installed at Deir El Balah Preparatory Girls School and Shati Elementary Boys School a few weeks ago!
New Books from Palestine Writing Workshop Awarded Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature!
We have exciting news about one of our projects! The two new children's books pictured below just won Best Illustration and Best Production from Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature! The Palestine Writing Workshop published these books and MECA helped fund the production of the books as well as workshops across the West Bank to distribute books to Palestinian mothers and train them in reading aloud to their children.
Berkeley, CA: 14th Annual Palestinian Crafts Bazaar
SAVE THE DATES FOR MECA & JOINING HAND'S
14th ANNUAL PALESTINIAN HOLIDAY CRAFTS BAZAAR!
2 Days Only: Saturday, December 3rd, 10am-5pm
Sunday December 4th, 11am-3pm
At the Middle East Children's Alliance
1101 8th Street, Berkeley
(near Gilman & San Pablo)
FREE admission
“Education for All” at Children of Al-Jalil Center in Lebanon
Refugee children from Syria living in Lebanon have many urgent needs. MECA provideds direct aid and helped our partner Al-Jalil Center start a school for 285 children in the town of Taalbaya. Most children from Syria are not attending because they are turned away from overcrowded local schools; the curriculum is so different they can’t catch up; or their families can’t afford even small school expenses. “Education for All” provides morning classes in reading, writing, English, math and computer use. Children who are attending local schools receive tutoring in the afternoon.
13-year-old Palestinian shot in Duheisha last month detained, medically neglected
Ma’an News AgencyA 13-year-old Palestinian who was shot and seriously injured last month by Israeli forces during a raid into al-Duheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem, and then detained from his home on Tuesday, remained in a dire medical condition, local sources reported on Thursday.
Reckless Security Firm Hired to Protect Dakota Pipeline Company Has Dark Past in Palestine
By Sarah Lazare, Alternet
Palestinian girl killed after being run over by Israeli settler
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A six-year-old Palestinian girl was run over and killed by an Israeli settler Saturday evening in the village of al-Khader south of Bethlehem, on the road to the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat in the southern occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces injure Palestinian youth walking home from school in Ramallah with live ammunition
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Israeli forces Thursday opened live fire on Palestinian students in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah as they were leaving school, injuring a Palestinian minor, according to locals.
2 Palestinians shot in Duheisha, as Israeli commander threatens to ‘disable all youth in the camp’
A group of Palestinian youth after being treated for gunshot injuries by Israeli forces
Maan News Agency
Two Palestinian youths were injured with live fire during clashes with Israeli soldiers in al-Duheisha refugee camp in southern Bethlehem early Friday morning, as reports emerged of an Israeli army commander making repeated threats in recent weeks to make “all youth in the camp disabled.”
Israeli army continue to flout regulations on child detainees
Palestinian child looks at Israeli jeep during scuffles in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 2, 2010 after Israeli authorities destroyed the irrigation system in the Jaber family's land
By Gerald Horton, Middle East Monitor