LATEST NEWS

New CDP Partners and Projects

The Foundation is pleased to be supporting two new project partners in the West Bank, Palestine. Bani Naim Charitable Society will provide a basic education and integration programme for 45 children with disabilities who are currently marginalised due to the lack of access to such services in Bani Naim, a poor, rural village near Hebron. Jasmine Charitable Society are to improve the quality of and expand their existing speech therapy services to reach an additional 50 children from Ramallah and surrounding villages.

The Foundation has also renewed support to a number of partners we have worked with in the past: Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation and the Welfare Association in Lebanon, and to LCR Askar in the West Bank, Palestine.

Further information on all these projects can be found in the Child Development Programme section of the website.

Project assessment field visits

The Foundation's CEO Julian Gore-Booth and Child Development Programme Officer Samia El-Tabari visited the Foundation's project partners in Lebanon and Jordan in March 2010.

Pictures from the visits can be seen in our Picture Gallery.

Drawing Competition 2009

The winner of our latest drawing competition was Mohammad Al-Abdullah, aged 10, from the Deaf and Blind School in Hama, Syria. His drawing, entitled 'A View in the Village' (below right) was made into the Foundation's seasonal greetings card.

Other prizes were awarded as follows:

Second Prize: Randa Abdel Rahman Atef Kharoosheh (9), LCR Askar, Palestine
Third Prize: Rama Kardish (11), Deaf and Blind School, Hama, Syria
Runner-up Prizes:Lucine Al-Ahmad (15), Al-Rabi' Association for Autism, Syria; Akram Ahmad Thaher Zouqan (15), Yafa Cultural Centre, Palestine; Hassan Mohammed Alweh (10), DPNA, Lebanon.