Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

By creating jobs and providing skills-training, CHF's work is providing aid that not only meets the immediate needs of vulnerable families, but lays the foundation for them to help themselves in the long-term.

Project Message

CHF's Food-for-Training program, for instance, is giving participants--particularly women--the opportunity to learn a new skill, earn an independent income, and build a greater sense of dignity.
- Mona Lisa Salib, Program Officer for the Middle East

Who is Running This Project

CHF International's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur	Assist Victims of Georgia Conflict	Creating Opportunity for Darfur Women	Feeding & Educating 50,000 Orphans in Rwanda
Fund Emergency Shelters for Haitian Families

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Palestinian territories and can also be found under Economic Development.

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 July 17, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 11, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Training Workshop in Marketing Skills: Opening Doors in Remote Villages

By Erin Mote - Manager of Resource Development , July 17, 2008 06:23 PM

Training Workshop in Marketing Skills: Opening Doors in Remote Villages
Through organizational assessments, strategizing, work plan development, and capacity building activities focusing on four Palestinian women’s organizations, the Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative (WEEI), funded by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), aims to enhance the capacity of women economically and socially.

The program targets remote villages in which small communities of women are hungry for a chance to develop their management and production abilities in order to increase family incomes. Below are testimonies from three beneficiaries on the benefits of the program to their respective endeavors thus far:

Umm Bilal reports, “I live in a village with a population of 7,000 people, mostly women and children, [and] they put high hopes on our association - to date more than one hundred and fifty women have participated in our activities. With this growth, our main problem is that we don’t have any current projects which can absorb this broad interest. After my participation in this training, I can think of many projects that we had not thought about previously. With these new ideas, we will be able to support wider participation.”

Abla from the Battir Association said "I am one of [the] few women who were able to come here to Ramallah for the training because of social pressures faced by women in the village, but I am happy to be able to transfer information that I have received here to the women there and to start planning for our project which is a handcrafts project. We are also now looking for new ways of funding.”

Her fellow participant, Roqayh Meraay, said, "Our main problem is marketing our products to local and foreign markets. Through this workshop, we learned how to start projects and [to use] new marketing methods. We also learned how to differentiate our products from those of other societies. Sharing successes and lessons learned with the other four participating groups in the workshop was also of great benefit.”

Attachments:

• Fact Sheet for This Program
• PARCS Press Release (2).doc

Comment on this update | Subscribe to "Updates from the Field" by E-Mail

How Else You Can Help