[OSList] Open Space for Palestinian refugee women

lucia pavia Ticzon living.systems.org.luch at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 17:14:52 PDT 2013


carry on ... y'all !!!

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Dr. Claudia Gross wrote:

> Dear Open Spacers!
>
> Hope this email finds you well!
>
> Just wanted to share with you that on the International Women's Day, we
> started an Open Space for Palestinian refugee women living in
> camps in Jordan on "My identify... My memories... My future..." sponsored
> and organized by GIZ in cooperation with UNRWA.
> It has been facilitated by Salwa Sukhon, a new Jordanian colleague who I
> have trained, while I just co-hosted the event with her.
>
> More than 60 women came from different camps in Jordan and from Gaza,
> shared their experiences and developed ideas.
> After the evening news, one of the participants started singing songs from
> Palestine and the whole group was traveling mentally to their
> lost homeland, eyes filling with tears, feeling the pain and their
> yearning for their homes of which they still have kept the keys...
> The 1st day ended with a song which animated the whole group to dance
> Dabke around the circles' center,
> demonstrating the strength of Palestinian women, sending a greeting to all
> of them in Palestine and outside, wherever they are currently.
>
> They identified more than 40 issues to discuss, we continue until Sunday.
> You find the event on facebook under "International Forum of Palestinian
> refugee women" - hope you like it.
>
> Warm wishes from Jordan,
>
> Claudia
>
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