MiniActive

MiniActive in cooperation with Maof – Business Advancement Network in East Jerusalem – held a meeting on February 23 2022, attended by over 50 women. The workshop sought to empower the participants on their path as successful and independent business women. It offered training and success stories that inspired and encouraged the women to become entrepreneurs. 

This first meeting was facilitated by Alaa Abu Lail, Director of Business Accompaniment, and Razan Abdeen, Coordinator of Marketing and Courses. 

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

The second meeting was on March 23, 2022, the workshop dealt with the pressures of life, tasks, and responsibilities women face daily, whether they are housewives, entrepreneurs, or business owners. MiniActive’s women received tools for time and stress management that will also help them raise their self-esteem. 

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

Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation and Natan for their ongoing support of MiniActive!

Mini Active arranged a health rights zoom workshop for 60 Palestinian women on February 21, 2022. Rula Abu Ziad from “Indicate” was invited to raise the women’s awareness on how to best access their health rights and how to make their interactions with health maintenance organizations (HMOs) such as, Clalit Health Services, more effective.

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

Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation and Natan for their ongoing support of MiniActive!

We’ve described here about how MiniActive is helping the Palestinian populations improve their surroundings in Jerusalem. Since its founding in 2012 MiniActive has registered tens of thousands of complaints, bringing about a revolutionary change in the way the municipality provides services to the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem.

Downloading the 106 app

The Jerusalem Municipality recently launched a new mobile app that enables residents to register complaints with the 106 hotline, supplementing the work of the telephone-based hotline. However, while it is possible to write requests and complaints in Arabic, the whole app platform  – downloading, signing up, entering some information for tracking – is in Hebrew.

Even types of complaints are listed only in Hebrew

Enter MiniActive. They’ve created a video on how to use the new 106 mobile app. The video shows how to download the app, how to sign up and insert all the necessary information, how to use its system that also plots the complaints on a map, and how to file a complaint using the app.  You can view the entire video here.

Details can be described in Arabic

Using this app will make MiniActive’s work – and its ripple effect of inspiring the rest of the Palestinian community in East Jerusalem – even more accessible. Can’s wait to see how it’ll upgrade their work!

Many thanks to the Leichtag Foundation‘s Jerusalem Model for their support of this summertime initiative for youth. And many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation and to Natan for their ongoing support of MiniActive!

MiniActive has been transforming Palestinian society in East Jerusalem through its 1,000-strong network of women since 2012. You can read about the amazing MiniActive network in this blog category.

MiniActive helping in the fight against Covid-19: Reminding patients of home

But 2020 has been such a busy year, with so many activities and involvement with so many processes, sometimes seeing in pictures is best.

Here is MiniActive’s year in pictures. The writing is in Arabic, but the pictures say it all. Enjoy!

And many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation, the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Model, and to Natan for their ongoing support of MiniActive!

Part of MiniActive‘s work to improve the surroundings of East Jerusalemites is knowing how municipal processes work. In order to facilitate this, MiniActive organized a virtual tour of the 106 Municipal Hotline in November.

Example of questions asked

More than 70 members participated in the meeting, which included touring the Hotline Command Center, together with an Arabic-speaking employee, as well as a question-and-answer period about the best uses for the 106 hotline –  environmental problems and what are the best ways to register complaints – and for what kinds of problems  – through the hotline. MiniActive volunteers also learned how to file complaints on the phone and on the app.

Here’s the link to the Facebook post in Arabic:

And many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation, the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Model, and to Natan for their ongoing support of MiniActive!

Over the past several months MiniActive has helped in the efforts fight the coronavirus. You can read about it here, here, here and here. This past week, we were fortunate to be a part of a new initiative.

Raising spirits of Arab COVID-19 patients at Hadassah

We received a call from the coronavirus unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem for help. Many of their older coronavirus patients are Arab. And as a coronavirus unit, all are in quarantine, away from their friends and family. There have been numerous drives to decorate the walls and public areas of the coronavirus unit to make in more home-like, but all of the drawings are by Jewish children. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not theirs, they don’t reflect their cultural mores, they have Jewish themes. It doesn’t ‘speak’ to them, and that misses the point of having the drawings.

So MiniActive women came to help. Children of the MiniActive women, together with their mothers, had a special – Zoom-based, of course – activity, drawing and preparing art to be put up in the coronavirus unit.

Reminding patients of home

It means so much for the patients; it meant even more for the families.

Here’s the Facebook post from the MiniActive Facebook page:

Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation and to Natan for their ongoing support of MiniActive!