Gender Equality Palestine Project #10473

Rooftop Micro Farms for Refugee Women in Deheishe

by Karama Organisation for Women and Children's Development

Rooftop Micro Farms for Refugee Women in Deheishe

Project Report | Oct 16, 2017
Roofs are getting greener in Deheishe camp!

By Hanien | Project Assistant

Picking the fruits from their hard work!

Welcome to this fall update from Deheishe Camp. There is so much exciting news to share about the expansion of our greenhouse project, but first we should say;

We are so happy you are part of this!

Some of you have been reading our updates and supporting our work since the very beginning and know how we were struggling to put one or two simple gardens for the women in the camp. Now Karama is expanding this initiative and that is only possible because people like you believed in us from the beginning! So… a big thank you!

Now, let’s see what happened since our last update.

- The first 60 greenhouses from the project are fully completed and in use! With assistance from the agricultural experts, all gardens are planted with cucumber and growing well.

- First harvest; from mid-September on the women started picking their cucumbers and this was such an exciting and satisfying moment for them. They were really picking the fruits from their hard work!

- First products made by the women groups: the women received training from specialists about the preparation of a wide variety of homemade products and they applied this to their own production. So far, the women came together to make pickled cucumbers and molasses / dibis.

- Meetings took place with two major donors concerning the work and they were very pleased with the progress and impact of the project on the lives of the women already.

Karama team is working hard to a) continue expanding the greenhouses to other camps (soon we should be officially in Hebron region!) and b) develop the idea of a social enterprise by assisting the women in their business idea of homemade food production from their gardens. Also, we will soon start planting an other variety of vegetables in the greenhouses, as the life cycle from the cucumber will come to an end.

Attached are some pictures of the training sessions that all participants have weekly in Deheishe camp, Aida camp and Al Azza camp. Also we show you the fruits from their hard work, the growth in the greenhouses.

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Training meeting with food production specialist

Look at them growing!

Delegation meeting our participants

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By Hala | Project Assistant

May 22, 2017
May Update from Karama's Greenhouses

By Yasser | and team

The new project phase in collaboration with the EU took off on the first of February, 2017 with a long list of preparations to be done! Both physically in the Karama office as well as in the administrative and financial management, a lot has been done in the past weeks. Meetings, hiring, field visits, journalist tours, buying, building and designing were all part of the team's tasks. Crucial steps were the selection of the first round of participants, who will be engaged in training sessions, build a garden and become part of the production network.

A great moment was when Karama held its first meeting with participating women in the new project on the morning of 25^th of March. At the beginning, Mr. Luay Al-haj welcomed the participants, and explained the project which is implemented with the support of the #European_Union. Mr Alhaj also made clear that the implementation will be carried out in multiple stages that will benefit the family and the Palestinian community as a whole by creating green spaces in an area where there is little space.

More training continued during April, with both the social worker and the agricultural engineers providing sessions for the women. Trainings are given in groups of not more than 15 women - so all can pick up the crucial info - and are organized in local community centers. The staff will go both to Deheishe camp, Aida camp and Azza to meet the women personally. Some of the topics discussed during the first 6 weeks were; basics of the greenhouse, planting tomato and its diseases, planting cucumber and its diseases, control methods for diseases, fertilization methods and others. The social worker discussed topics like communication, building relationships, self-confidence, dealing with stress, dealing with overactive children. This does not only help the participants in the project activities but also in their daily life. And while participants first were hesitant to address such personal topics, they are now eagerly looking forward to their next classes.

Soon we will start building! The next step will be to construct the first 40 rooftop greenhouses in the camps. Will you continue to build with us? Our activities need your support more than ever, as we continue to fill the gap in the EU budget. (Remember, more than 10% needs to be funded from Karama's resources so we need your continous support!) Thank you so much for being a supporter of our rooftop greenhouses project; our participants will not only grow healthy produce on their roofs - they will grow their skills and their pride :)

See you next month!

Meeting with participants in Deheishe Camp

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