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Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in the Middle East
un article par Eileen and Felora, AWE (abridged)
It is our distinct pleasure to announce that due to the
generosity and support of our mission by our wonderful
investors, AWE has just returned from another successful
workshop in Israel and a first successful workshop in Beit Jala,
administered by the Palestinian Authorities. 
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We delivered a follow up, deeper workshop to a culturally
diverse group of women at Talitha Kumi Evangelical Guest
House, Beit Jala, a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem
Governorate of the West Bank, located outside of Bethlehem.
The site is ideal as it is the home area of the West Bank
Palestinian women, many of whom were already AWE
participants, and the Israeli government permits Jews to travel
to this zone, outside of Bethlehem. The Guest House was
situation on the highest elevation in the area around
Bethlehem amid multiple acres of woods, olive and apricot
trees. The Guest House is attached to a school that serves
Christian and Muslim Palestinian children, though all religions
would be equally welcome. The school was among the first to
educate girls in Palestine and the name Talitha Kumi is
derived from the Bible, the translation, “Little girl, I tell you to
get up”, (Mark 5/41). Since our mission includes advancing
women who in turn advance their families and girls, this
seemed like a very good fit, indeed.
We delivered our first workshop in Jerusalem at The American
Center, a part of the American Embassy in Tel Aviv. The
Center is a section of the Office of Public Affairs. The Center
promotes public knowledge and awareness, aimed at the
Israeli public, through information services, cultural programs,
exchange programs and meetings with American experts in
cooperation with local institutions. We were privileged to offer
our introductory AWE/MOP Leadership Workshop to a very
vibrant group of women.
We are pleased to report that both workshops were very well
received by the women and both resulted in requests to
return.
We also traversed the beautiful and complicated country to
meet pivotal potential friends of AWE and were rewarded with
new friendships, opportunities and awesome possibilities for
AWE!
We accomplished our goal of returning to Israel, inviting the
women we had encountered previously, offering a deeper
follow up on the Matrix of Peace (MOP) Leadership Training,
renewing relationships, strengthening ties, deepening
women’s understanding of their own power and role in their
circumstances and community.
We accomplished our goal of encouraging the women to stay
in touch with one another, set up meetings, opportunities to
network, help one another and showcase each other’s goods.
We accomplished our goal of a further outreach, offering new
women outside of our core AWE participants an introductory
MOP Leadership experience.
We accomplished our goal of forging new relationships with
organizations and institutions known to mirror our goals and
vision and to interact with women entrepreneurial leaders. . .
[Thank you to Janet Hudgins, the CPNN reporter for this
article.]
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DISCUSSION
Question(s) liée(s) à cet article:
Jewish-Palestinian dialogue, How is dialogue different from conversation, discussion, or debate?
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Commentaire le plus récent:
Len and Libby Traubman have sent in the following important addition to their year-end review of the public peace process for Palestiinian-Jewish dialogue.
NEW INITIATIVE OF PROMINENT AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE
In December, 2003, a delegation of 33 of America's most prominent Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders met in Washington, DC to announce their new, unprecedented, collaborative effort -- The National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East.
These citizen-leaders of their faiths, and their plans, are described at:
http://www.walktheroadtopeace.org
They will continue working within their communities and together "to mobilize broad public support for active, determined and effective U.S. leadership in pursuit of peace between Israel, the Palestinians and Arab states."
They insist on a viable, independent, democratic Palestinian state alongside the existing state of Israel with enduring peace and security for both sides, thus amplifying the voices of increasing numbers of courageous Arabs and Jews of goodwill.
The Washington convergence was initiated by A Different Future (http://www.adifferentfuture.org), the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East
(http://www.usicpme.org), and the United Religions Initiative (http://www.uri.org) with initial financial support from the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
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