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Human Rights > Abir's Garden: A Playground for Si'ir Girls School (#2179)
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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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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
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
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,736
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,362
Total Funding Goal: $9,099
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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
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
Donna Baranski-walker
Executive Director
457 Kingsley Avenue
Palo Alto, California 94301
United States
650 325 4663
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The Rebuilding Alliance
235 Alma Street
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United States
(650) 325-4663
http://www.RebuildingAlliance.org
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This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 11, 2008
By Donna Baranski-Walker - Executive Director, August 12, 2009 10:51 AM
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