Pinwheels for Peace Project: July 20th 2009 – Al Aqaba started the Summer Peace Camp for children within the past week! One of their main projects is to craft 1000 Pinwheels for Peace. These pinwheels will officially be presented on September 21st, 2009 on World Peace Day. To see Al Aqaba registered on the map and learn more about the project, click here: http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.org/
Pinwheels for Peace 2009
Pinwheels for Peace 2008
Gaza Soccer Project: We dream of playing soccer at night! Here along Gaza’s border with Egypt, we cleared the rubble, made a soccer field, and organized a soccer tournament to run through Ramadan. Now we need lights!
“Gaza Soccer: Start Here” (Part 2)
“Gaza Soccer: Start Here” (Part 1)
Al Aqaba Kindergarten Update (2009)
“Rebuilding Hope” — a film series by Tamer Mansour, Ron Eggleton and voice over by Cindy Corrie
Episode 1 — Rebuilding the Nasrallah Home
“This week Wednesday, the Nasrallah family will start building their new home through the grassroots support of hundreds of Americans and people throughout the world. They are the family that my daughter, Rachel Corrie, sought to protect when she was killed by the Caterpillar D9 Bulldozer that threatened their home in March 2003. My name is Cindy Corrie and I am Rachel’s Mother.”
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Episode 2 — Groundbreaking
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“The Kindergarten in Al Aqaba” — a 14 min film by Amir Terkel
“.. After the army base was removed from the village a few months, we started helping the people to return to their homes. The first thing we did was to start fixing the kindergarten… Through the work of the Rebuilding Alliance, the kindergarten opened in May 2004, with an enrollment of 80 children. ”
Watch the video on you tube: Right to a Home and a Homeland
“A day of Rebuilding” — a 7 mins film shot, edited and produced by Amir Terkel
A 7 minute documentary about Israelis and Palestinians building homes together, broadcast on the San Francisco PBS affiliate KQED.
Watch the video on you tube: A day of Rebuilding
“On the Ground: Witness, Resist, Rebuild” — a film by Sean Geary
It was filmed in August 2003, follows Israeli activist Jeff Halper to Jerusalem house demolitions, culminating in his arrest for civil disobedience in a multinational effort to save the Jabari family’s home. That same week, volunteers helped the Shawamreh family build the Beit Arabiya Peace Center on their land, where their home was demolished four times previously. To order film, click the button below.
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