Palestine

1. Perfect Clubs Project: which was cooperated with Taawon for resolving conflicts society and 8 clubs separated in nablus and Jenin, the project aims to build a safe enviorment inside the clubs.
2. 30/30 Training : which aims to develop the capacity of the youth and improve their knowledge and leadership skills.
3. Computer Skills : to let most of interest people learning the computer skills without fees.

1 Deaf Education Program;
Deaf Education Program started providing educational services for deaf children living in Northern Governorate in 1992. The program offers educational services for 96 deaf pupils of 1th – 9th grades yearly. It includes kindergarten, elementary and preparatory grades, and one grade of high school stage of education. JRS school for deaf children actively takes part in the most important community events. The pupils are daily provided with transportation services. Also, Deaf Education Program pupils are regularly provided with such services as audiological follow-up, speech therapy for pupils with partial hearing loss.
2 Community-Based Rehabilitation Program;
The program focuses on integrating the disabled children living in Northern Governorate in the community. Rehabilitation specialists visit the disabled children at their homes to provide the child's caregivers and family members with relevant knowledge on how to take care of their disabled child. The program workers are responsible for networking and coordination with community establishments including rehabilitative ones. One of important activities being regularly implemented is Signal language courses for deaf children families' members. The program being described successfully implements distribution of technical aids and medical supply for disabled individuals (with different causes of disability) who live in the targeted area.
3 Audiology clinic;
The main goal of the clinic is to diagnose, counsel, follow up clients with hearing problems referred from various medical centers and fit, repair (if needed) hearing aids. Also, the clinic provides all above-mentioned rehabilitative services for JRS deaf school pupils.
4 Speech and language therapy;
The clinic provides speech and therapy services such as speech therapy itself, follow up to individuals suffering from speech and language disorders. Adults as well as children benefit from the clinic activities, but the focus is made on children in need of described above services. Speech and therapy specialist provides speech therapy services for deaf school children with partial hearing loss.
5 Vocational Training;
Deaf school graduates are provided with bakery training. During the year 2014, 13 deaf females are got trained in JRS bakery.
6 Emergency and Relief Activities;
JRS is the leader of local emergency committee represented by local NGOs, which reports immediately on accidents needed emergency interventions/ support (such as flooding houses by sewage waters, damage after military incursions, siege and shortage/ lack of access to technical aids and medical supply) taking place in Jabalia Camp and close to it areas and implements distribution of emergency help in the case of emergency situation. Among the emergency interventions, the following should be mentioned: field survey to gather the data after accident/ disaster, etc.; urgent distribution of emergency items; emergency community-based rehabilitation, etc.

Workshops focusing on psychological and social counseling Standing in front of a woman Kindergarten work Work on the training of specialists in the field of educational work

Dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration) - Issuing certificates of origin - Legal services - Organizing trade fairs and economic forums - Organizing training programs - Providing credit rating services - Business matching services

from these meetings, a core group of nine Palestinian women activists took the initiative to establish the Jerusalem Center for Women with the aim of empowering Palestinian women's position in civil society, politics, and within the peace process. JCW immediately began involving and engaging hundreds of Palestinian women interested in working towards the protection and advancement of women and human rights. The group grew substantially within its first few years, and formed a General Assembly to guide and coordinate JCW. In the spring of 1994, following several meetings 13 women were elected to the first Board of Directors and JCW became a registered non governmental organization in East Jerusalem with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior. At the same time JCW was founded, an Israeli women's organization, Bat Shalom, was also founded. The intention was for the two organizations to form a platform for women's voices to influence the peace process. Together, the two organizations founded a coordinating body known as the Jerusalem Link. From the beginning, JCW and Bat Shalom have operated independently of one another, each maintaining executive and organizational integrity, while periodically working together to advance women's interests in the peace process. However, since the attack on Gaza in December 2008, JCW and Bat Shalom have decided that the priority lies in working separately on their own constituency to prepare the ground for future peace work. Therefore, JCW and Bat Shalom are working on separate programs of advocacy and capacity building, where each organization works to strengthening the respect for human rights and democracy within their own society. Despite several setbacks to the Palestinian women’s movement, JCW envisions women as central in the process of successful nation and state building, and therefore continues to support the empowerment and involvement of women in all aspects of Palestinian civil society and development. JCW also continues to support women’s participation in the peace process and believes women’s ideas for a just peace must be included in final status negotiations. In preparation for this, JCW seeks to provide Palestinian women with training opportunities in  public speaking, advocacy and other activism skills in order to advance women’s status and their role in Palestinian society. We believe this support is essential to protecting the decision-making process, human rights and democratic principles, which are the foundations of a just and lasting peace. Since its inception, JCW has empowered thousands of Palestinian women by training female community leaders, activists, young professionals and politicians, provided legal assistance to families at risk of having their homes demolished, and advocated on a local and international level for women’s rights and an end to occupation.  Recent history With the war on Gaza in 2008|09 and the implicit difficulties for further joint activities and projects the Jerusalem Link dissolved, as did Bat Shalom this current year. Regarding the ongoing development Jerusalem Center for Women has defined four core strategic priorities as (1) protection, (2) capacity development, (3) women leadership and political participation, and (4) advocacy | media. Still and relevant as ever JCW strives to emphasize that the struggle for women´s rights is a crucial component to achieve human rights for all Palestinians. JCW goes for empowering female activists, students, and professionals so that they are able to effectively communicate and participate in Palestinian civil and political society as well as training a new generation of young leaders dedicated to advancing women´s rights and creating a culture of human rights and democracy in Palestine. Furthermore, JCW continues to increase women´s skills and confidence to prepare them to become agents of change and powerful advocates for their communities and against Israeli occupation. Likewise JCW considers significant to support Palestinian women in apprehending, addressing, and altering the male societal patriarchy. Regarding the intensified focus on advocacy and media JCW aims to raise local, national, regional, and international awareness to violations of Palestinian women´s rights by using varied advocacy techniques, including the use of new media, social networking, lobbying, researching, documenting, and disseminating information to key outlets and decision makers.

Cultural and artistic events:
Jerusalem…Culture and Civilization program presents range of various cultural and art activities which express the Palestinian folklore and aims to make the audience of the show interact with the folk heritage.
The program will include the following activities:
A movie (A tour of Jerusalem)
Folk crafts bazaar
Folk dance (Dabkeh)
Folk music
Palestinian traditional customs
Palestinian traditional food
Tour of Jerusalem
The movie presents a tour of Jerusalem in which we will try through the scene to provide the historical originality and the religious importance of the holy city. In addition, to introduce the culture of Jerusalem which is not less important than the sanctity and the significance of the place.
Folk Crafts Bazaar:
To introduce the folk crafts which Jerusalem was famous of. The Bazaar expresses the sanctity and the originality of Jerusalem and reflects the creativity and the brilliance of folk artist.
Traditional Dance (Dabkeh):
Dabkeh is one of the most distinctive features of the Palestinian folklore that expresses the culture, dreams and the livelihood of the Palestinians. Dabkeh will be introduced by dancers from “Siwar”, who will present a dance routine from the folklore that embodies parts of the Jerusalemite traditional wedding
Folk Music:
Palestinian folk music summarizes the cultural and the historical depth of the Jerusalemite and their attachment to their land.
It also expresses the creativity of the folk artist, where in this part a collection of folk music and tones will be connected to various traditional and cultural events. In addition, it sheds the light on various traditional music instruments.
Palestinian Traditional Customs:
It is considered one of the most important features of the Jerusalemite identity in which distinguishes it from other people in the world. These customs are as various as the geography of the land and multiplicity of the society classes.
Beside all that, a collection of traditional customs for various Palestinian cities will be shown.
Palestinian Traditional Food:
This part presents a range of Palestinian traditional food which is connected to the Jerusalemite identity, and the various social occasions.

1. Artistic, cultural, performances and shows by two main branches Siwar troop for popular art, the first is the youth troop and the second is vanguard troop. 2. Various musical performances presented by Siwar oriental music band 3. School of popular art, this included the following: A. Handcraft and traditional craft school B. Heritage school of music C. Folkloric dance-dabkah- school 4. Tawasul-outreaching program: the program focus on communicating with the world in general and with the Palestinian cities in particular, and this mission fulfills through various means as follow; Tours in the Palestinian cities Youth cultural exchange with local, regional and international heritage and cultural partners. Conducting various artistic and cultural performances in many Palestinian, Arabic and International cities. The social program and it is aim to strengthening the forum network in addition to highlighting the idea of social solidarity through implementing various youth led initiative.

1. JYCF Palestinian Folkloric Dance (Dabkeh) group presented Palestine in festivals in, Ireland Festival, and in 2007 and won first and second price. 2. Yearly Children summer camps for arts and Heritage. 3. Execute the first period of the project "The popular art school" which aim to raise the educational and mental level of children through several fields of training as drawing, singing, drama work and folklore dances. 4. The Jerusalem first festival for popular arts aimed to exile the cultural retirement faced by the holly town. The festival continued for three days with the participation of nine singing and dancing bands .presenting the Palestinian popular traditions and culture on there own ways. 5. The plastic art exhibition: artistic works depending on popular traditions .who observe the Palestinian plastic art process find that their main objects and ore depending on the Palestinian traditions and holly land which reflect the rang of connection between Palestinian and their traditions and land .thirty five artists participate in this exhibition . 6. Popular traditional handwork bazaar aimed to represent the original traditional arts in a pleasure way. And to introduce the old traditions to the nascent genders especially needlework which carry an artistic value for it's an original art in its form, collars and solely coordination

Juhoud's activities focus on:
- training and consulting
- women and youth empowerment
- democracy and good governance