Abir's Garden: A Playground for Si'ir Girls School
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: $3,320
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,779
Total Funding Goal: $9,099
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.RebuildingAlliance.org)
- Pangea Day movie about Combatants for Peace (http://www.pangeaday.org/filmDetail.php?id=73)
- Pangea Day interview with Bassam and Yonatan (http://www.pangeaday.org/filmDetail.php?id=79)
- Abir's Garden Memorial (http://www.rebuildingalliance.org/campaignAbirsGard)
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
Organization
The Rebuilding Alliance
235 Alma Street
Palo Alto,
CA
94301
United States
(650) 325-4663
http://www.RebuildingAlliance.org
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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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 11, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
Thanks and Request for Help!
By Donna Baranski-Walker - Executive Director, August 12, 2009 10:51 AM
Thank you so much for helping Abir's Garden win second place in the GlobalGiving “Ready, Set, Give” Challenge! We're close to our goal of full funding and we couldn't have done it without your help.
We need your help once more because the hard work isn’t over! Our next big project is part of GlobalGiving UK’s “Alive and Learning” challenge, and it ends THIS FRIDAY. We want to build a birthing center in Al Aqaba village in the West Bank – the first birthing center in Area C, which suffers from a lack of medical access. In this dark time, our birthing center can bring new hope to a village under demolition orders and a whole area struggling from occupation. Help us by going to our website, www.rebuildingalliance.org, and clicking the link to donate; just five pounds (around $8) is enough to make a difference.
Sincere thanks and best wishes,
Donna Baranski-Walker
Executive Director
The Rebuilding Alliance
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