Empowerment e resilienza in tempi di pandemia
Situato nel settore H2 della città di Hebron, il laboratorio di pelletteria Peace Steps collabora con Vento Di Terra da anni ed è una delle piccole ...
10 February 2021
Palestine
Under Israeli military occupation since 1967, Palestinians suffer the daily violation of their rights. The continuous expansion of Israeli settlements, the wall, checkpoints, oblige them to heavy restrictions on mobility which increase the extreme difficulty of access to resources, employment and basic services.
Emblematic is the context of the refugee camps. The majority of the inhabitants of the camps were expelled from their villages by the Israeli army in 1948. During the war, Israel destroyed more than 500 Palestinian villages, giving rise to the refugee problem which now amount to 30% of the population in the West Bank and more than 50% in Gaza. To manage the problem, in 1949, the General Assembly of United Nations instituted UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency). Palestinian refugees are now over five million displaced in Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. With a growing population, refugee camps have dramatic levels of population density, inadequate schools and health services and an unemployment rate of almost 60%.
The situation is also dramatic for the Bedouin communities living in Area C in the West Bank, the territory under Israeli military and administrative control. Once nomadic, following the deportations, the Bedouin Palestinians lost the access to grazing, their main source of sustenance, and to water sources. They live in degraded areas and confined in decaying camps without water, electricity and services.
We chose to work in border and under conflict areas to state the basic rights of local communities. We create social micro-enterprises and support local artisans to fuel the economic sector. We build schools in bioclimatic architecture and invest in social and educational services to support a peace culture in the heart of the conflict.
Projects
Events in support of the School of Tires
Originally from Tel Arad in southern Israel, the residents of Al Khan al Ahmar were forced to displace in 1951. They moved to the desert east of Jerus...
3 December 2020
First bricks for the reconstruction of the Children’s Land in Gaza!
The construction of the first block of the Children’s Land, the woman center, proceed quickly: Sunday, March 29th, the company responsible for t...
3 December 2020
visions turning into reality: the Zeina Women Center
The women working in the two laboratories along with the rest of VdT staff grouped to find a name for the center that represents everything they are w...
3 December 2020
The light heart of Alhan al Ahmar
The school is there, as a shelter for 170 children. We met them shortly after noon, while walking through the slopes of the neighbors hills to go home...
3 December 2020
Back to school! The new school year begins in Palestine and Gaza
In recent days Palestinian children went back to school benches for the beginning of the new school year. From the School of Tyres in the West Bank to...
3 December 2020
Tour of conferences about peace in the Middle East with rabbi Jeremy Milgrom
With the presence of Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom in Italy, between 29 October and 8 November, Vento di Terra organizes and promotes a tour of conferences on ...
3 December 2020
Gaza: 16 medical centers close due to lack of electricity
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the suspension of operations in 16 hospitals and health centres in the Gaza Strip due to a severe...
3 December 2020
My father is in jail because he believes in a free Palestine
I was born in an era in which people believed that the Israeli occupation would have soon come to an end. After the signing of the Oslo accords, my fa...
3 December 2020
Our goodbye to the young student Alaa
We’ve received some sad news from our local coordinator in the Gaza Strip, Mohanad: the young Alaa Yahya Alzamli, a 16-year old student, has been ki...
3 December 2020
Seeds of hope for the Tyre school
A new date has been set to choose upon the future of the ‘tyre school’: on April 25th, in fact, the Israeli Supreme Court will, once again, meet t...
3 December 2020
Stop killing Palestinian civilians!
SCP – Società Civile per la Palestina adheres to the appeal of over 70 international NGOs operating in Palestine (AIDA) condemning the killing ...
3 December 2020
Preparations for the Children’s Land reconstruction
Here we are, everything is ready to lay the first brick! The new project of the Children’s Land center will be modular and will include the esse...
3 December 2020
Netanyahu orders demolition of mobile structures set up by the EU in Jerusalem
The decision comes after Israel’s Channel 2 revealed that the EU had distributed a number of mobile structures in the E1 area of East Jerusalem in a...
3 December 2020
The Children’s Land destroyed by the Israeli army
Um al Nasser, Gaza Strip, 20th July Israeli tanks and infantry occupied the village of Um Al Nasser on the night of July,17th forcing the entire comm...
3 December 2020
The strength and courage of the women of Gaza
Fatima, the director of the Children’s Land center, tells us how the population of Um al Nasser lived during the 50 days of the military operati...
3 December 2020
First interventions in Um al Nasser after the war
There should be more than 800 tanks of water to cover the needs of storage and distribution for the population of Um al Nasser. Many of them have bee...
3 December 2020
A pile of rubble
Yes, our kindergarten is a pile of rubble. One can see our precious books, educational games, a piece of a laptop with the sticker Vento di Terra on ...
3 December 2020
Gaza Staff in EU Representative Office in Jerusalem
Among the many benefits one can have working for an international NGO was the chance to do what was once considered impossible. This can be confirmed ...
3 December 2020
Israeli forces seize solar panels, injure child in village raid
JERICHO (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Wednesday injured a child during a raid on a West Bank Bedouin village in which they also confiscated ...
3 December 2020
