Palestinian students in the West Bank cannot access diverse educational opportunities due to the Israeli occupation.
THE SOLUTION
Expanding Learning and Community: Opening the Window for Palestinian Students
Although ámaxa has been working with ISNAD from its very first cohort, we strongly believe that the partnership is more important today than ever. Due to the Israeli occupation, most Palestinians can’t travel outside of Palestine. This, in conjunction with the war currently going on, has made many Palestinian students feel more isolated than ever. It has also made consistent, high-quality education a struggle, as the unpredictability of war affects every aspect of students’ lives.
Ámaxa teams work with ISNAD Community Education Center to connect Palestinian students with other students from around the globe. These connections not only help Palestinian students feel a bit less isolated, but also help ámaxa students get a clearer understanding of what Palestinians are going through, and the gravity of the situation there. Students in the past have helped teach English, increased the community center’s presence on social media, and worked to create Accesifyed: an interactive website to host custom English lessons for Palestinian students.
Entering 2025, however, ámaxa teams will address the ISNAD community’s most pressing need: food insecurity. Due to Israeli checkpoints enforced even more harshly as the Gaza genocide rages on, families in the West Bank cannot work, leaving many without income to buy food. ISNAD is currently raising funds to support grassroots agricultural projects that enable Palestinians to eat.
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TEAM SPOTLIGHT
Meet ISNAD
DAHRIA, WEST BANK, PALESTINE
The ISNAD Community Education Center works to fill educational gaps in Dahria, a town south of Hebron in the West Bank. The center is the first of its kind in the area to combine in-class and community-based learning to promote both learning and community development using a variety of formal and informal approaches. The center aims at strengthening the educational capabilities and skills of students of different age categories through a variety of specialized training courses in fields like languages, social media, planning, and arts. It also aims to enhance youth engagement in their communities through organizing voluntary initiatives and interventions in different localities.
However, due to the Israeli crackdown in the West Bank during the ongoing war in Gaza, ISNAD has had to halt all education programming. They are now working to enable Palestinians to grow their own food in order to survive, as Israeli checkpoints and violence have kept families from working, unable to earn income to feed their families.
To donate to ISNAD's ongoing fundraiser, click here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/community-initiative-in-palestine