…helping children reclaim their childhoods June 2015 Dear Friends of PfP, We’ve been very busy the past few months and have some exciting news. We have procured excellent equipment for SEVEN new playgrounds, which will be installed in SIX locations throughout the West Bank. We are scrambling right now to have them all ready
About Playgrounds for Palestine: Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa on Deutsche Welle Radio http://www.dw.com/en/worldlink-playgrounds-for-palestine/av-18527407
PfP is proud to support this wonderful initiative for children. Read their report about their opening day and see their photos. https://www.facebook.com/mashjarjuthour/photos/?tab=album&album_id=910243905701229
Our playground at the Right to Live Society in Gaza…. http://www.anera.org/stories/playground-gaza-children-down-syndrome-survives-bombings/
William Sutcliffe, author of ‘The Wall’ (a novel about a young boy enchanted with a girl on the other side of the wall dividing Palestine and Israel), has also agreed to be a patron of our charity. Thank you so much William.
…helping children reclaim their childhoods April 2015 2015 Gala Was Wonderful! Thank you to all our supporters for another wonderful annual gala! This was one of our most successful (in terms of money raised). The event was held at the Sheraton Hotel in University City, Philadelphia, a new venue for us that turned out to
…helping children reclaim their childhoods March 2015 Dear Friends, We hope to see you on Saturday! We will showcase our projects for 2015, including five new playgrounds and the long awaited Gaza Play Therapy project, which has finally gotten underway. The fabulous Amer Zahr will be our emcee for the evening, which will include
…helping children reclaim their childhoods March 2015 Please join us! We will showcase our projects for 2015, including five new playgrounds and the long awaited Gaza Play Therapy project, which has finally gotten underway. The fabulous Amer Zahr will be our emcee for the evening, which will include a four-course meal, presentations, silent auction,
Playgrounds for Palestine, a Pennsylvania-based children’s rights organization, learned today that one of the play spaces it created in the Aida Refugee Camp was tear-gassed while it was full of children engaged in play. According to Al Jazeera Stream, Israel is the alleged culprit. Further, this is not the first time that Israeli military occupation
…helping children reclaim their childhoods February 2015 Save The Date! PfP’s annual dinner fundraiser will be held on Saturday, March 28, at the Sheraton in Philadlephia University City. Our Theme this year is “Be A Part Of The Harvest“ We will showcase our projects for 2015, including five new playgrounds and the long
We are excited to announce the launch of an initiative we’ve been working on for a while. PfP established a school in Gaza for grades 1-5. We’re in our third week now of operation and it’s amazing. The school is a mixture of traditional and non-traditional learning. The first few days were focused on getting
This donation, our first to PfP, is to honor the children that see beyond conflict, and remind us to be ever present.