Central Nablus ADP
Villages ADP Located In: Asira Al Qibliya, Awarta, Burin, Einabus, Madama, Osarin, Yanon, Odala, Urif, and Zeita Jamma’in
No. of Registered Children: 1,915
No. of Direct Beneficiaries: 17,043
No. of Indirect Beneficiaries: 22,277
Communities Served: 10
No. of community-based organisations and/or schools/kindergartens served: 44
Total No. of staff: 11 fulltime staff members serving the North, East, and Centre Nablus ADPs
Support Office: World Vision Canada
The Nablus Governorate is located in the northern part of the West Bank. It covers an area of 605 square kilometres (almost 234 square miles) and has a population of 321,103. The city of Nablus is situated in a narrow valley running east-west between the two mountains of Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. Nablus lies to the east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Jordan River and north of Jerusalem.
In central Nablus, the educational and health care systems within World Vision’s Central Nablus Area Development Programme (ADP) villages are poor while unemployment rates high, at 54 per cent within the Nablus governorate.
The city of Nablus is located in an area which falls under Palestinian Authority (PA) for civil and security control. Many of the villages touched by the Central Nablus ADP, however, fall into areas that have joint control and/or are completely under Israeli civil and security control.
In Nablus, many restrictions are imposed on the local Palestinians, especially those living in areas completely under Israeli control. One of the most significant restrictions includes obtaining building permits, which are often denied. Land confiscation by the Israeli authorities is another issue. Nearly one third of the agricultural lands of central Nablus have been confiscated to build illegal Israeli settlements or for military purposes. Movement within the West Bank is also restricted by permanent and temporary checkpoints, physical road obstructions, forbidden roads (roads with restrictions on Palestinian use) and the separation barrier. These affect the daily lives of the local Palestinians in terms of employment, medical treatment and their ability to visit their families.
Many of these communities had been previously dependent on labour in Israel as their main source of income-a source of income which has now been almost completely lost. Villagers also struggle with ill-equipped educational facilities and resources and health centres that are not adequate to meet the needs of the communities they serve. As there is very little investment in promoting children’s roles in the community, their families and their schools, there is also a valid concern for their protection and care.
OUR COMMUNITIES
World Vision has been working in central Nablus since 2009 to further promote the well-being of children, ensuring the fulfilment of their rights within their families and communities. Working within ten villages with a combined population of 22,277, World Vision’s interventions seek to assist its communities through creating job and income generating opportunities for families. Through its Central Nablus ADP, World Vision seeks to ensure all families and children enjoy good health, through maternal and child and health and nutrition projects, as well as focusing on water safety and management.
GETTING EDUCATED
World Vision continues to work towards ensuring that all children are educated for life and encourages children to: make good judgments, protect themselves, manage their emotions and communicate their own ideas. Through kindergarten and school rehabilitation programs: fun days and recreational activities are planned for children; training is provided for school counsellors, and school are supplied with educational equipment necessary for this dream, of all children being educated for life, to become a reality.
The students at the Burin Secondary Girls’ School formed a music club and World Vision helped equip the group with the required instruments. The students were able to showcase their talents through the club. At the end of the academic year, the music club performed at the closing ceremony conducted by Palestinian Ministry of Education to celebrate the completion of the academic year.
a humanitarian initiative came out from a group of children committee from centre Nablus ADP to celebrate with elder people the new year. The children spent one day with elders in the elder home in Nablus city, they prepared food from their home and ate it together with elder, sang together, distributed flowers and gifts for them, and finally they provided them with clothes that have been collected through” The winter clothes campaign”
ENVIRONMENT
New initiative in CNADP with the ADP children committee named "Your old clothes are new in the eyes of the poor". In this campaign children started to collect old clothes from families by creating corner in the school for the donated clothes and through conducting visits to houses in the villages. The clothes will be packed and distributed on the poor families.
Through this campaign 8000 thousand of clothes distributed to around 4000 thousands families
CHILDREN ARE CARED FOR
World Vision works to ensure all children are cared for in a loving, safe, family and community environment with safe places to play. From creating summer camps and awareness workshops, to sports days and capacity-building sessions, the Central Nablus ADP focuses on the importance of participating and protected children, families, and communities. Through its child committees, children are provided with the opportunity to be respected participants in decisions that affect their lives. World Vision seeks to improve lives through women and child empowerment as well as income generating opportunities for families to ensure a sustainable and brighter future.
A SHARED FUTURE
World Vision Jerusalem-West Bank-Gaza seeks to impact the lives of over 200,000 children through its programmes and directly benefits the lives of over 168,000 people in 116 communities throughout the occupied Palestinian territory. Through its Area Development Programmes, World Vision works with 500 community-based organizations and schools to empower families and children to become agents of change for a better future. World Vision seeks to ensure that all families and children are cared for, protected and participating.
Sources:
1) Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, 2008, www.moa.gov.ps
2) United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs occupied Palestinian territory (OCHA), February 2012, www.ochaopt.org