Association Najdeh

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Association Najdeh
FoundedFounded in 1976, Registered in 1978
Location
Area served
Protecting human rights, development, education
FieldsNonviolence, research, lobbying
Members
252
Key people
Leila El Ali
Websiteassociation-najdeh.org/index.html

Association Najdeh (AN) (جمعية النجدة الاجتماعية in Arabic, Arabic najdeh="relief" or "aid") is a

Palestinian refugee women who are often victims of discriminations and also participates in different campaigns, in coalitions of local and international organizations, for the right to work in Lebanon and the right of return to Palestine
.

History

The association Najdeh was founded in 1976 by a group of independent Lebanese women and men to secure immediate income to

demonstrations in all the regions of the Lebanon, on April 30, 2009, for "the right to work campaign of the Palestinian refugees in the Lebanon", in particular with Palestinian-Lebanese coalition's commissions, after having published a report on the contribution of the Palestinian refugees to the Lebanese economy, in January, 2009, thanks to funding from aid agencies (Diakonia and Christian Aid).[3]

Objectives

The main purpose of the association Najdeh is to empower women in the Palestinian community because they are a most severely disadvantage component of the

Palestinian refugee
community. The improvement of the role of the women in the Palestinian community also concerns their economic, social and educational role.

Profile

The association Najdeh organs consists of: a General assembly, an Administrative Bureau elected by this Assembly, members of the Executive Board assigned by this Administrative Bureau. The General assembly is 70% of women and 30% of men. The administrative board has progressed over the last few years from only female members to a fifty-fifty female/male division (6 members). The staff is primarily women and members of the

Palestinian refugee
community. Eighty percent of the beneficiaries are women and Palestinians, while the remaining 20% are men and individuals of other nationalities. The association Najdeh operates on 26 centers in and around
Domestic Violence Program, microcredit
Project, and Embroidery. It also defends the rights of the Palestinians by activities of raising awareness on subjects such as the health of the reproduction, the rights of the woman and the rights of the child. The programs of the association would touch up to 10 000 refugees, in all
Nahr el-Bared, Shatila, Beddawi
, etc.

Core values

The association Najdeh has personal core values that it intend to promote: a community committed to the Palestinian nation, a belief in the importance of human rights, of social justice and of gender equality. As a member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International(HAP International) since August 2009, she believes in the values of PAHs based on transparency and accountability.[4]

Funding

The association Najdeh has several sources of funding. The

donations are a big part, their origins are multiple: mainly funds from donor organizations and individuals from Europe, and from some partners present in United States and Canada
. The other sources of income are: incomes from the production of embroidery, fees for students in professional training program and those for program of women and children.

See also

References

  1. ^ association-najdeh.org/index.html
  2. ^ [1] Archived November 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Palestinians pump up Lebanese economy – study | Gutter Poetry in the Arab World". Gutterpoetry.wordpress.com. 2009-02-13. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  4. ^ [2] Archived June 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

External links

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