Project duration: 6 Months
Project's focus area: Peace and Childrens Rights
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The Aramin family chose to turn their tragedy and despair into care, creativity, and teamwork in memory of their 10 year old daughter, Abir. The Abir’s Garden Project transformed her school in East Jerusalem, bringing former combatants from both sides together to build a playground that soon became the favorite gathering place for families. Now Combatants for Peace is expanding the project to the Si’ir Girls School, near Hebron with the help of their school community to build the next playground
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Work with C4P landscape architects on the plan. Order and receive playground structure from Europe. Hire shuttle busses to bring former combatants from all over Israel and West Bank to clear, build, and install. Feed everyone. Hold opening ceremony |
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When former combatants work together to build for children, they meet one another & begin to heal. For many villagers, this is the first time they see Israelis who come in peace. The children gain a safe place to play, families after school can enjoy |
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We want to send a message to the world that if we former enemies can now sit together, work together, struggle together with words not guns then anything in the universe is possible
- Yonatan Shapira, Israeli co-founder of Combatants for Peace
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Donna Baranski-Walker,
Executive Director
457 Kingsley Avenue
Palo Alto, California 94301
United States
650 325 4663
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