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Dear Friends,
The last three months have been busy around here. Comet-ME was working on two issues in particular – fund raising and completing our work in Susya.
I will start with the good news: Comet-ME, using funds obtained from the German representative office in Ramallah and the Firedoll and Sparkplug foundations was able to complete the [...]
Dear Friends and Supporters,
A while ago we (villages group’s members), together with Jubier Shtaeh (a musician from Salem village nearby Nablus), wrote and sent a proposal which brings the urgent need of kids in these villages to have a music center. Since things like that have the nature of being forgotten among so many other [...]
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Two weeks after our our previous report (see: http://villagesgroup.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/destruction-of-palestinian-well-in-umm-al-kheir/
it is now become clear that although the well itself wasn’t destroyed by settlers bulldozers, it’s whole drainage basin was damage in a way that will probably make this well useless (see especially photo 4: the well is just below the new [...]
Dear friends and supporters,
As we near the end of the school year’s first semester and registration for its second semester, we met the South Hebron Hills students whom we assist in their academic studies. We are currently supporting fourteen students from five localities in this area: Susya, Mufaqara, Tuba, Tuwane and Um Al Kheir. Our [...]
20.11.08
Thank you Jinba, my dear,
The weatherman said it would rain in the south on Thursday. It didn’t. An autumn breeze caressed the South Hebron Hills swaying down towards the Arad Valley and Judean desert, into the sleepy morning mists. We, too, were there. Ehud and I and our friend Muhammad, native of the area, [...]
Continuing Yesterday’s post, a team from the Israeli-Palestinian NGO Ta’ayush managed, after great difficulties, to reach the Jinba area. They report that the military has carried out in the last few days a massive earth-removal initiative, designed to effectively wipe out the network of dirt roads connecting the southern part of Massafer Yatta (the part [...]
