the “Tent of Nations” project goes beyond “Daher’s Vinyard”…
Daoud and Gihan (in the picture between Emma and Bastian) are part of the Nassar family who also run “Daher’s Vinyard”… they are amazing people with a big heart and great vision…they are taking the vision of the “Tent of Nations” out of “Daher’s Vinyard”… they recently rented a place in the neighbour Arab village, Nahalin, so they could somehow help the community there… Gihan gives computer lessons in Bethlehem and she thought she could taught the women in Nahalin as a volunteer… and so it all started…
she already finished the basic course of the first class, and she already started a second class… she didn’t even need to publicize it, the word just run mouth by mouth and there were so many women wanting to come that she needed to divide in 2 classes… The women got really excited and encouraged…
and they are already suggesting other kinds of activities, like English lessons, cooking lessons and even a gimm :-) … They simply need something that brings them out of their houses, coz they do nothing more besides raising their kids…
one of the women there is about 48 years old and her husband works in Sudan… she went there one day and asked Gihan if she could learn “internet”… she didn’t know exactly what that was, but she knew she could communicate with her husband with that :-)…so now she’s attending the computer class…
Gihan asked them if they would like me to teach them how to make necklaces and they all got very excited with that… I was willing to do that, even though I’m not an expert myself… but it was a great experience… they loved it and most of them were really creative…
I wondered if they would want it because they are all traditional muslims (all covered), so I didn’t know if it would make sense, but they loved it… they wear the necklaces outside their closes…
And for me it was a great experience just to get to know them…
For Gihan and Daoud all this is just an opportunity to create relationships with them and also break the walls between Christians and Muslims…
One more time PEACE was taking place :-)…
They also have a group of young kids with whom they hang out, who they encourage and somehow try to help them to live out their dreams…
We also visited this group and we got to see some of the stones some of them painted… the idea was to let them express what they feel inside about the whole situation they live in in Palestine…they use this way because most of them don’t feel free to express what they really feel …
so they painted a stone and then described in a piece of paper what they painted…
Click on the title of this post if you want to read more about this projects or if you’d like to support them somehow…
VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME :-) !!!!
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