Palestine

Main Programs 2015-2017
1. Socio-economic Empowerment of persons with disabilities Program

The program aims at promoting the available opportunities to persons with disabilities in order to improve their socio-economic circumstances, build their economic administrative capacities and skills to contribute  in facing unemployment and poverty with focus on persons with disabilities in the Palestinian Society.
In addition to providing different social support services, awareness, advocacy and supporting education quality reconsidering the transparency and opportunity equivalent principle.  2. Media of Citizen Program
This Program aims at developing the media role in supporting the developmental process and expressing the social groups issues effectively in line with the enormous development in the world of media and communication as well as improving the means of dialogue, communication, and cultural exchange on both levels locally and internationally.3. Civil Empowerment Program
The program aims at enhancing youth and women participation and raising awareness about their rights and letting them participate in decision making, as well as supporting the national identity, civil rights and the use of various communication tools to create positive dialogue between community members and knowledge exchange in the issues that tackle their interests, and needs.

The home care program for the disabled people
Speech therapy program
Health and social community awareness program
Special Education program for slow learners
Emergency relief projects
Summer Camps for disable children

Society Voice Foundation’s programs as follows:
1.Empowering Women Political and Social Participation Program
2.Youth Participatory Development Program Based on Conflict Transformation and Peace Building.
3.Media Production and Outreach Program by producing a monthly newspaper and a weekly Radio program
4.Informal Community Educational Program
5.Civil Society Studies and Researches Department
6.International Cooperation and Culture Exchange Department:
7.Support Small Local Initiatives Department.

Association to raise 
awareness education and guidance and 
provide assistance to families in need 
and take care of orphans 
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Medical Department: promoting physical health and development Psycho-Social-Educational Department: addressing post traumatic stress disorders resulting from the (often violent) political situation, promoting education through psychological counseling and special education for children with school problems, including Play therapy and speech therapy. Addressing gender issues, promoting democracy and human rights, environmental issues. Motivating women/mothers to further education through women empowerment programs. Cultural Deapartment: promoting cultural heritage activities (dancing, music, art) for children and youth. Empowering youth through cultural and social exchange programs, inside Palestine where people become more and more separated and isolated through barriers, and with the outside world through hosting foreign volunteers.

List of Projects and Activities carried out by Spark: Project # 01: Be A Tech Youth! The project aimed to build the capacities of youth (women and men) from different areas in the Gaza Strip, from different promising fields in the field of outsourcing and freelancing and increase their accessibility to decent job opportunities and economic empowerment. The project targeted a number of 150 youth (women and men). Project # 02: The Fab Zone The Fab Zone is a fast-paced, hands-on learning experience where students learn rapid-prototyping by planning and executing a new project each week, resulting in a personal portfolio of technical accomplishments. Project # 03: Youth-Centered Design The program helps youth to create solutions for people using the Human Centered Design approach and supports designing services and programs that put children and youth first Project # 04: Reflection on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda: This project classified under the “Education for Sustainable Development” program. This project started in January 2019, aimed to develop youth awareness on the sustainable development goals and their importance as a road map towards a prosperous future based on a vital and ambitious community and a flourishing and thriving economy. To reach this vision, we worked on enhancing their participation in the Palestinian community through a number of training programs and workshops such as: 1- “The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 - The Way to the Future” workshop. 2- “Barra Al-Shabiak: Out of the Windows” workshop, which discussed the most important problems and issues facing Palestinian society from a youth perspective. 3- "Health Care for All: Make It Real" workshop, which discussed the right of society members to enjoy healthy and secure lifestyles. 4- “Young Women Make History” workshop celebrating the International Women's Day 2019 which took the theme “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”. Project # 05: Youth Leads Future This project aimed to provide young people with the necessary skills and expertise that enable them to be active individuals in changing their communities. To achieve this, we worked on soft skills like: communication, creativity, entrepreneurship and business, as well as health and environment. Project # 06: Computer-Aided Design The program gives young youth -girls and boys - (15-18) the opportunity to explore different 2D and 3D software to understand possibilities and limitations. Participants work on hands-on projects and learn how to use Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software to create their designs. They are introduced to 3D printers and learn how to export their files to bring their designs to life. Project # 07: STEM IN MAKERSPACE In the STEM program we work on the STEM curriculum, which enhances the necessary skills in the twenty-first century, such as critical thinking, logical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving to name a few. We worked on many workshops and training programs including: - Alternative Energy Solutions - Electrical Circuits and Robot Technology Digital Transforming Project # 08: Climate, Human Health, & Environment In this program, we work on promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth through enhancing the participants’ abilities in creative industries field through workshops that focused on related themes like visual art, painting, design, and The total number of participants in the workshops were over 40 participants (boys and girls). Project # 09: Be careful, COVID-19 has another face! Production of short animation films which reflect the Palestinian cultural identity from youth perspective, this initiative focused on the application of animation and use it as an effective tool to increase the interest of youth in participating in public live and express their identity and their culture freely, and motivate them to share new ideas and innovative interventions. Project # 10: Picture Colored with People This initiative aimed to enhance to role of youth in the Palestinian community development and equip them with positive energy and optimistic and encourage them to looking forward enhance their art and hobbies accordingly and share it with community members in order to highlight key important issues associated to Palestinian identity. Project # 11: Women in Stem The program gives young girls (16-18) the opportunity to delve deeper into science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects, to develop their higher-order thinking skills and their ability to solve problems. This program aims to ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university Projec#12: Learn English for work Young people learn English through interactive, fun lessons that take them through everyday situations and topics related to work, study, travel, and more. Project # 13: Mechanisms for empowering women at the legal and economic levels A program aimed at introducing young women to their legal and economic rights, and preparing them to be leaders at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life Project # 14: Portal for Change Programs in partnership with Mercy Corps, where young people in Spark meet with their counterparts from Arab and international countries, to discuss global issues affecting young people Project # 15: Go to green A program that gives young people the opportunity to learn about environmental problems and think about creative and influential solutions that guarantee a friendly environment.

AEGEE exchange “EuroArab – understanding each other's challenges” (since 2009)
New Membership System (since 2009)
summer camp (2009)
Youth for Change (since 2008)
Bisan training course (since 2008)
proposal writing training course (2008)
Youth Parliament Bethlehem (since 2007)
Anti-Discrimination Unit (since 2007)
Media training course (2007)
youth conference for peaceful conflict resolution (2007)
academic and career guidance (since 2006)
Youth leaders (2005-2007)
Youth Lobbying (2005-2007)
scholarships (since 2004)

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