Did you know you could make a minion this from a stack of tires?

Well never get "tired" of this minion

Well never get “tired” of this minion

That would be our new group of Palestinian teenage girls, who are volunteering to improve for their neighborhoods and environments. Recently they held a number of activity days, recycling and re-purposing old materials into new. Here are some pictures of the process:

Chipping in to make surroundings nicer

Chipping in to make surroundings nicer

They not only don’t want to live in filth, they also want to live in a beautiful environment. They decorated old plastic bottles,

nice picture of youth working

Youth working

DVD’s, and more:

Painting discs

Painting discs

They made planters out of old plastic bottles:

Making painted bottle planters

Making painted bottle planters

They painted telephone cabinets

Painting telephone cabinets as well

Painting telephone cabinets as well

 

And even old rusty dumpsters. Here’s a picture of the dumpster before

Before - rusted old dumpster

Before – rusted old dumpster

And now you can see it after:

The dumpster after - what a joyous site!

The dumpster after – what a joyous site!

Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for its continuing support of this program. Here’s the link to one of the Facebook posts in Arabic: