By Anthony Bale | Project leader
Brtish Shalom Salaam Trust and Israel Social TV have been thrilled by the response to our GlobalGiving fundraising challenge. Thanks to our amazing supporters, we raised a significant amount of funding - £5763 so far - towards our project, which aims to make a real difference to the very difficult situation faced by the Bedouin in Israel. Thank you, each and every one of you, for your crucial support.
Maryam´s story: Maryam lives in the 'unrecognized' village of Umm al-Hiran, a Bedouin community of about 1,000 people in the Negev desert. Maryam is the head of the Women´s Committee of the village and in this video you can here her point of view: she speaks compellingly about the many challenges faced by the Bedouin - from having no electricity so you can´t have a washing machine to the lack of a paved road for the school bus to take your children to their school in the next village. Maryam asks: ´How can we live in an integrated society if we are always separated like this?´
As Maryam explains, Umm al-Hiran is just one of many Bedouin villages under imminent threat of demolition. In the last year alone, over 1000 Bedouin structures have been demolished by the state of Israel. At Umm al-Hiran, a new gated village of Jewish inhabitants is planned. With your help, Israel Social TV is now producing similar video stories, which aim to inform the wider world about the serious difficulties and systematic discrimination that people like Maryam face in living their daily lives.
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