A HUGE THANK YOU! to Sarah Bettens and Gert Bettens of K’s Choice for their support.
The brother and sister rock team are sporting our Palestinian cuffs on their European Tour in support of their new album “Echo Mountain”. Here they are playing to a crowd in the Netherlands at Concert at Sea as well as a few new singles! ENJOY! and THANK YOU!
A big Thank You to Gossip Girl star and Hands Up Not Handouts ambassador Kelly Rutherford for supporting us in Lifestyle Weekly.
Jim Hornthal, social entrepreneur and humanitarian recently met with Carrie Maloney of Hands Up to donate over 100,000 pairs of eyeglasses to the people of Palestine. Jim is a supporter of Hands Up Not Handouts as well as a trustee of One Voice, a grassroots movement to bring together the youth leaders of Israel and Palestine.
“The OneVoice Movement is an international mainstream grassroots movement with over 650,000 signatories in roughly equal numbers both in Israel and in Palestine, and 2,000 highly-trained youth leaders. It aims to amplify the voice of Israeli and Palestinian moderates, empowering them to seize back the agenda for conflict resolution and demand that their leaders achieve a two-state solution guaranteeing the end of occupation, establishing a viable independent Palestinian state, and ensuring the safety and security of the state of Israel – allowing both people to live in peace with all their neighbors.”
Please visit Jim’s ONE VOICE MOVEMENT Thank you Jim!
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and Ela Bhatt with Qalandia's earliest members.
On the outskirts of the Kalandia refugee camp, the atmosphere inside the Qalandia Camp Handicraft Cooperative is serene, contrasting drastically with the chaotic and heavily polluted world of the camp just outside. It provides a glimpse of what the nearly forgotten village of Qalandia was like before a refugee camp was erected there in 1949. (more…)
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
October 27, 2008
On a continent that has been dominated by the rule of men, this tiny East African nation is trying something new. Here, women are not only driving the economy — working on construction sites, in factories and as truck and taxi drivers — they are also filling the ranks of government.
