Women's Program Center / Al-Baqaa Camp

 

 

Our message:

• Pride in the positive role of women in their society.

• We write to every woman and to the local community groups of youth and children, with a pen full of urging to irrigate minds and encourage them to spark success stories and create a spirit of responsibility so that every girl and every young man becomes a project to build a better future.

• Achieving a constructive vision in creating cultural, legal and scientific awareness in every home.

• Participatory with the local community and creating ideas.

• Cultural knowledge of everything that is going on around us and interest in national and social issues

 Vision and Goals: 

• Empowering Palestinian women and women in the local community by strengthening their capabilities in various fields

• Creating small projects to help many young men and women rise from a difficult reality

• Activating formal and extracurricular activities to support women and their role in the local community
  Encouraging young women and men to achieve their future aspirations
  Partnership with official agencies and local and international organizations to support life skills.
  Supporting Palestinian refugee women and their participation in decision-making
  Main activities related to women's rights and gender equality
  Educating society about the active and creative role of women in the development process.
  Training and qualifying Palestinian women to raise their social, economic, cultural and professional levels.
  Work on finding productive projects that will benefit her and her family

 

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Those in charge of managing the Women’s Program Center in Al-Baqa’a camp, since its inception until the present day, are keen to continue forming training, awareness-raising, cultural, educational, health, social and economic courses, through brainstorming and obtaining advice, advice and guidance from official authorities and international organizations to serve the recipient of “women, Children, youth. Which reflects on their service and community service.

 

  Women are the leaders of success...

 

Manufactured by their hands, with management, Supervision, Training and membership, The feminist component is integrated in the Women’s Program Center to prove the message of women’s ability to create institutional work that enhances the importance of women in society.

 

Community women: Just as women are Nibras al-Jammal, they are the creativity industry...

 

Management.. An integrated beehive

 

Women's programme:

Women from the local community work within a committee. The committee currently consists of 7 members:
Committee Chairwoman - Vice Chairwoman - Secretary of the Committee - Treasurer - Members
Under the name of the Local Voluntary Committee, which operates through the Women's Center and its umbrella is the International Relief Agency, represented by the Relief Program.

 

Committee responsibilities:

• Drawing up the general policy for the special programs in the center

• Determining the estimated annual budget and plans

• Maintaining a database of network relationships with local community institutions and international organizations

Objectives of the local volunteer committee:

The committee is based on:

• Supervising the Center's activities and the participatory "networking" with other concerned institutions in the fields of awareness and education

• The Committee is interested in raising awareness in the areas of:

1. Health fields
2. Legal areas
3. Social areas
4. Economic fields
5. Qualifying fields
6. The training activities implemented in the center are mainly about educating women on human rights through CEDAW and gender

 

Sewing Department

It was established since the beginning of the center and many women and girls joined it , Where the department teaches industrial sewing, sewing, detailing, embroidery and handicrafts of all kinds. The department also occupies more than 60 women as products of embroidery pieces.

 

Computer section
It offers basic and advanced courses for school students and women, and serves female students in the camp to conduct scientific research.

Loan section
It serves women in general, and entrepreneurs in particular, and provides women with quick and easy payments for the purpose of improving or opening projects, or for the purposes of home improvement, education, and treatment.

 

Networking program:
Training courses with international educational and cultural institutions and organizations in the following areas:
Legal - health - social - economic - rehabilitative, in addition to specialized training courses - and psychological support.

 

 

Kindergarten Program:

- Through the presence of kindergartens "Rawdat Al-Zuhur" was established in 1974 'in Al-Baqa'a camp: the Nablus area, next to the Nablus mosque.
Under the supervision of the Director: Asmaa Hegazy.
- Kindergarten Al-Ajyal was established in 1992 'inside Al-Baqa'a camp: Al-Karamah area, the old agency restaurant, under the supervision of the director: Zahia Al-Qannas.
The center adopts, according to the latest educational methods, to provide an educational administration for kindergartens, which covers the age group from 4 to 5 years, to establish children' - targeting the less fortunate children for the purposes of establishing them, directing their energies, and teaching them on models of effective play.
- The center sets a symbolic fee that does not exceed 15 dinars per month to open the door for many families with limited income to be able to provide education for their children.
Kindergartens work with an educational team by the best trainers and teachers with long experience and high skills in education.

 

 

What does the center do?
Through the archive of photos, activities and achievements, each trainee and graduate can see what the center has provided:
1. Integration of women's issues through plans produced by experienced women from the community and local and international organizations.
2. Monitoring issues of discrimination against women and achieving equality and equal opportunities
3. Spreading awareness of the rights of women and children and supporting their participation in achieving national development through continuous participation with various activities.
4. Focusing on priorities to meet the needs most affecting the advancement of women.
5. Professionalism in our work and the adoption of studied methodologies in developing solutions to the challenges facing women.

 

 

Endless success stories:

• The Women's Program Center in Al-Baqa'a Camp graduates dozens of trainees every training or educational season

• Receiving ideas and proposals and developing them in line with the center's objectives in supporting Palestinian women

• Through the official page of the center on the Facebook platform, many pictures and achievements that prove the role of the center in supporting women.

• Improving the reality of women, preserving their gains, and instilling a positive societal culture and a national environment supportive of their role by following a participatory methodology with all concerned parties.

 

Challenges and difficulties:

• Despite the creation of creativity from the womb of suffering.. However, the Women's Program Center in Al-Baqaa camp records difficult challenges, some of which are related to the conditions of logistical and financial support.

• And since the center will provide more than what it does to serve Palestinian women and the various societal groups, the importance of supporting it as a fuel that puts it at the forefront of achieving the goals, mission and vision that support humanity and support women in achieving better opportunities for them in light of the difficult reality they live in refugee camps.

 

Unwavering will, hope and determination...

 We believe in supporting struggling women who have achieved and are achieving outstanding achievements on the professional, scientific and cultural levels, to reach the pinnacle of achievements made by a single fabric within a work team that works with sincerity and faith..and draws a smile as the title of endless success..

 

Pictures of the Center's Activities

 

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