Abir's Garden: A Playground for Si'ir Girls School

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Summary

After a little girl was killed, Israeli and Palestinian Combatants for Peace decided to build playgrounds in her memory – and the girls school in Si’ir village has no playground. They need your help!

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

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

Activities

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

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $0
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $22,000
Total Funding Goal: $22,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

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

Project Message

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Donna Baranski-Walker,
Executive Director
457 Kingsley Avenue
Palo Alto, California 94301
United States
650 325 4663
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organization

The Rebuilding Alliance
457 Kingsley Avenue
Palo Alto, CA USA
United States
650 325 4663
http://www.RebuildingAlliance.org

Learn more about The Rebuilding Alliance and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Palestinian territories and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about Palestinian territories, read the Human Development Report on Palestinian territories or the Wikipedia entry for Palestinian territories.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 11, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 11, 2008.

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