Fw: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S PEACE SERVICE PALESTINE

["Sigrid Loos" <sigloos at libero.it>]

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Saluti Sigrid
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norie Huddle" <nhuddle at intrepid.net>
To: "Alanna Hartzok" <earthrts at emh1.pa.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S PEACE SERVICE PALESTINE


> Do you know anyone who might be ibnterested in participating in this?
> Please help circulate to possible candidates.
> Norie
>
> INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S PEACE SERVICE PALESTINE
>
> NEEDS 16 WOMEN:
>
> To spend three months a year, for three years in a Palestinian village
> support local efforts toward nonviolent peacemaking respond to any
> instances of injustice witnessed record and report abuses of human
> rights to the international community live and work in an
> international women's community alongside Palestinian people.
>
> This is a 3 year project to set up and run an International Women's
> House in Haris, Salfit, Palestine from August 2002. It will provide
> trained women from the international community to: witness, monitor,
> document and publicise human rights abuses; to peacefully intervene to
> try to stop such abuses from occurring and to support the growth in
> nonviolent resistance to the illegal and brutal Military Occupation of
> Palestinian lands in the West Bank and Gaza.
>
> Women will live communally in a house in a village with basic
> facilities and under the restrictions enforced by the illegal Israeli
> military occupation. Each member of the team, of at least 16 women,
> will agree to stay for 3 months a year. Thus there will always be a
> presence of a minimum of four women, which will be supplemented by
> others staying for shorter periods.
>
> It is essential that applicants have been to Palestine and been
> involved in nonviolent direct action somewhere. The minimum age is 21
> years. The decision making will be largely by consensus and women
> should have some skills such as human rights monitoring or
> accompaniment, report writing, photography, computing, group process,
> or a willingness to learn. The working language will be English and it
> will be necessary to learn basic Arabic.
>
> The following costs will be met by the project:
>
> Full board and lodging in the International Women's House
>
> Travelling expenses to and from your home country
>
> Medical insurance
>
> A stipend of $275/£185 per month whilst in Palestine
>
> For an application pack please contact one of the people below:
>
> Josephine Jaffray Tel: +44-1539-732583
> Email: josephine at jaffray.fslife.co.uk
>
> Angie Zelter
> Valley Farmhouse, East Runton,
> Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9PN, UK
> Tel: +44-1263-512049
> Email: reforest at gn.apc.org
>
> Nadya Waziri Tel: +1-720-564-1462
> E-mail: solush at usa.net
>
> If you are interested in the project but cannot apply for this post,
> please let us know as we shall be looking for volunteers at home and
> in Palestine and will also welcome visitors to the project.
>
> Mission Statement of IWPS
>
> The IWPS (International Women's Peace Service) wishes to develop
> projects where there are massive, violent, human rights abuses
> occurring. IWPS seeks to develop nonviolent skills, training and
> support for intervention in such conflict situations. IWPS is an
> independent nongovernmental organisation that is supported by
> donations, grants and volunteers from global civil society. IWPS is
> run by women from different countries around the world and is
> intentionally diverse in recruiting support from a wide range of
> differing racial, age, religious, and cultural backgrounds.
>
>