Christmas in Palestine: priceless experience

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Palestinian Territory Farming Archaeology Culture Environment Festival Renovation Farming Archaeology +4 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

International Palestinian Youth League (IPYL) IPYL is an organization that empowers Palestinian youth through educational programs, intercultural learning, training, media literacy and youth leadership activities. Since its inception, IPYL has implemented hundreds of projects in a range of fields. These include 79 international voluntary work camps in Palestine and 69 in work camps in other Middle Eastern countries. The organization also carries out youth exchanges, geopolitical study trips (alternative tourism), media role in social empowerment, active citizenship and leadership, youth and women think tank groups and community meetings. For more info about IPYL, please visit https://www.ipyl.org.

💼 What the programme involves

The project seeks to bring young people from various cultures together to build cultural bridges of understanding, reconciliation and global peace. The long-term goal of project is to prepare youth to make positive contributions to society through the values of global understanding, helping, contributing tolerance, and respectful global coexistence and building on common grounds of cultural proximities and differences. These goals are achieved through education, informational, awareness raising, youth empowerment and voluntary work camps. The city of Bethlehem has global value to all mankind, since it reflects the common universal human values that should be the guiding light for all human beings. The volunteers will work in different areas in Bethlehem city and surrounding areas. The work will include; participating in the Christmas celebrations, painting walls, renovation and restoration of some places, gardening and tree planting.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteers will be hosted at the IPYL volunteers flat in Hebron (20 KM south city of Bethlehem) men and women will stay in separate rooms. The accommodation includes hot water, kitchen and hangout space. The place has fast internet connection including computers and presentations equipment (the media center of IPYL is beside the flat). The volunteers will cook breakfasts and dinners by themselves (daily cooking teams to be established). Lunch will be served during the work time. Tea and coffee will be available all the time at the form and the hangout space. There might be curfew for the work camp, which would be around midnight, unless we have some activities around outside that night/evening.

📍 About the location

the afternoon will be dedicated to educational and cultural activities that will expose volunteers to Palestinian culture and history, and that will help volunteers to understand the reality of life under occupation. The program will include lectures, display of documentaries, visits to refugee camps in the Bethlehem area and tours of other places of interest. The program will provide many opportunities for interaction with locals. Volunteers will have the opportunity to speak with Palestinian activists and to ask whatever questions they have about the situation in Palestine.

⚠️ Requirements

Warm clothes; Pullover, raincoat or light jacket in case of rain (it could get very cold at December workcamp) Working shoes, clothes and gloves Information about your country; musical instruments and/or anything which can create international theme parties, based on food, drinks, music, dance and games that are typical from your home country. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE DRESS CODE WHEN IN PALESTINE: avoid shorts, short sleeves shirts or transparent clothes.

ℹ️ Additional information

The camp is alcohol and drugs free, volunteers can\'t drink alcohol during the camp duration. The camp leaders will designate some local bars (in Bethlehem only) where volunteers can drink.

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