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Monthly Archives: August 2021

MiniActive Youth – Cleaning Up their Neighborhood, One Section at a Time

We’ve written about MiniActive Youth here and here, and about the especially important activities here and here during the pandemic.

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Getting the kindergarten ready for the school year.

This past summer, they continued to hold activities. In August, this included helping to build garden furniture and clean up the yard of a local kindergarten in the Sur Baher neighborhood. With their help, the kindergarten was able to get ready for the upcoming school year.

Painting, building, cleaning – all in a day’s work

Here’s the post (in Arabic) from MiniActive’s Facebook page:

A group worked in Beit Hanina as well, helping prepare a local garden. Here are more pictures from MiniActive’s Facebook page:

Many thanks to MiniActive Youth! And many thanks to our MiniActive partners: the Jerusalem Foundation, to Natan and to the Leichtag Foundation‘s Jerusalem Model.

2021-09-24T14:34:07+00:00August 30th, 2021|Blog, MiniActive|

Atta’a – Continuing to Empower East Jerusalem Palestinians

The Atta’a Assistance Center for the Rights of East Jerusalem Residents has been helping Palestinian residents obtain rights and benefits since 2004, and we’ve described here, here, and here the amazing work they’ve been doing since the onset of the pandemic. Indeed, between March 2020 and March 2021, they helped Palestinians deal with over 7,300 requests, 4 times their annual average.

Muhammad being interviewed

Atta’a staff being interviewed for local TV / Internet broadcast

And since March 2021, Atta’a is continuing to help local residents at an accelerated pace: From the beginning of 2021 to the end of July, Atta’a has had nearly 2,500 requests for assistance. This breaks down to:

  • 800 requests via Facebook
  • 500 requests via WhatsApp
  • and another nearly 1,200 requests via in-person meetings

What’s the reason for the uptick in requests? Well, the continued pandemic, for one. Another is that the family re-unification law, which has prevented Palestinians from filing for residency status in order to live together with their families since the early 2000’s, was not renewed in early July, and many are turning to Atta’a for help. Since posting, this video has received over 210,000 views! Here’s the video in Arabic:

Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation, the Rayne Foundation, the Leichtag Foundation, and the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders for their support of Atta’a.

2021-09-11T17:03:20+00:00August 25th, 2021|Attaa, Blog|

Simplifying Language – A Principle of Cultural Competency

A main principle of Cultural Competency is making services accessible to all. This includes adapting language to increase understanding. This could mean translation into different languages used – or simplifying the language used.

Keeping calm – and keeping it simple

On July 29, the JICC’s Cultural Competency Desk held a Language Simplification workshop online for cultural competency coordinators from healthcare and welfare institutions.

Dr. MIchal Schuster, on simplifying language

Dr. Michal Schuster led the fascinating meeting, which practiced with the participants important basics of simplifying language during meetings between therapists and patients from different identity groups.

Here’s a Facebook post from Cultural Competency desk’s Dr. Rachely Ashwal:

Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for its ongoing support of cultural competency in Jerusalem.

2021-09-24T14:34:56+00:00August 15th, 2021|Blog, Cultural Competence, Cultural Competence in Government Institutions, Cultural Competence in Health Services|
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