The project aims to monitor life of Palestinian people living in villages adjacent to settlements, to modify their “shutted voice” to “raised voice” to international forums and to all over the world. Directly through photography (video, photograph and word) and spread it across social media networking through individual or collective pages. A group of young women living in those areas will be selected, as they're absent from media work field.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
t5 marginalized villages affected by the occupation and by settlers’ practices in Nablus Governorate.
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
15 women because they're more present in houses from 5 villages affected by settlements will be trained on writing and photographing documentation and on social networks to spotlight people’s suffering, especially women, and to document the events and violations against these villages by Israeli occupation forces and settlers, by live documenting in various ways by the village own habitants and supporting it with live pictures and publish it.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Documentation will be on settlers attacks;repeated abortions by inhaled gas tear,horror experienced by homes raids,children abducting,students interdiction from going to school,preventing the completion of freely wedding procedures,preventing farmers from reaching their land for cultivation,stealing and picking up crops,burning religious places,depriving lands owners to hiking in their lands and properties in spring season and enjoy the outdoors.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Other tools
equipped high tech computer lab for women training and providing them memories for their mobiles.
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
WAFAC has worked in these villages in educational or psychosocial support meetings or holding conference has to do with political violence, as well as supporting campaigns for affected families which will help in the completion of the project and ensure its success.We will build partnerships with local councils and presence of trained women ready to work and with the support and adoption of councils will sustain the benefit of those villages.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
15 to 18 participants will be trained.WAFAC has a close relationship with the local councils in those locations in addition to the need and recommendations that emerged from one of the conference held in the past in those locations and the registration of a large number of women to get such training,and because they share common care and burden,which is the benefit of their country,and because everyone is exposed to such violations.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Rising Voices can help in dissiminate the documented violations of settlers through its own partnership around the world and to UN agencies can benefit from it especially Palestinian living overseas to get aware of the constant attacks of settlers who built their homes on Palestinian land and denied the indigenous people from going to their lands or use it and are protected by Israeli army and depriving media or human rights organizations access
Contact name
Sumaya Safadi
Organization
Women And Family Affairs Center (WAFAC)