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Bridges Activities
Project Overview
Bridges
strives to ameliorate the educational and social problems faced by
Palestinian youth and children. Bridges attempts to provide the
opportunity for children to live their childhood, while benefiting from
interaction with their peers in a fun and supportive environment. Thus,
it is the belief of Sharek that the participants’ involvement in
Bridges Activities will help to mitigate the detrimental effects of
the conflict on children and youth and contribute to the development of
their academic, social and personal skills.
Activities
Examples of Bridges activities include: visits for youth groups to
Sharek’s Model Court in Abu Dis, and visits to various shops and local
businesses, dentists, factories, banks, supermarkets
.JPG) and
local NGOs. Moreover, some volunteer activities, such as the cleaning up
of streets and beautification of cities and villages, are carried out as
well. Both youth and children therefore develop a sense of
responsibility towards themselves and Palestinian society.
Local Partners
- Local schools and universities
- Civil society organizations and local NGO’s.
- Village councils and municipalities.
Locations
The West Bank:
Jerusalem (the old city of Jerusalem, Sur Bahir, Abu Dis), Ramallah
(Kufr Ne`meh, Saffa),
 Nablus
(Nablus city, the old city of Nablus, Askar refugee camp, Talfeet),
Tulkarm (Tulkarem city, Allar, Rameen), Bethlehem (Aida refugee camp,
Al-Khadr, Al-Abidiyah), Hebron (Hebron city, the old city of Hebron,
Halhoul), Jericho, Jenin (Jenin city, Kufr Dan, Arrabeh, Al-Yamoun),
Salfeet (Salfeet city, Bidya), Qalqiliah (Al-Nabi Ellias and Jayyous).
The Gaza Strip:
The North (Jabalia, Beit-Lahia, Beit-Hanoun), Gaza City (Al-Rimal, Al-
Sheikh Radwan, Al-Tufah Area), Rafah (Al-Balad, Tall Al-Sultan,
Al-Shaboura refugee camp, Canada refugee camp, Al-Mawasi), Khan-Younis.JPG)
(Al-Mahata, Al-Qarara, Jezan Al-Najar, Abasan), Al-Wusta (Al-Maghazi
refugee camp, Al-Bureij refugee camp).
Success Indicators
According
to a survey conducted in 2007 in various Bridges Activities
locations
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60%
of participants’ mothers strongly agree and 40% agree that their
children's grades in the core school subjects improved. |
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80%
of the participants’ mothers strongly agree and 20% agree that their
children benefited through involvement in the project activities and
that their social outlook changed for the better. |
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13.3% of mothers strongly agree and 86.7% agree that their
children's academic skills improved and advanced after participating
in the programme activities. |
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