DSPR, Gaza

DSPR, Gaza (also known as NECC)

An Irresistible Future

The Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR) offers humatarian, psychosocial support and vocational training to the young people of Gaza — the innocent victims of four wars since 2009 — giving them hope for the future.

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DSPR
(Also known as NECC)

Specialist mentoring and psychological support is given to all students, which are essential to help them complete and succeed in their training courses and develop as individuals and cope with the isolation of everyday life in Gaza.

They currently supervise four training centres – promoting gender equality — including courses in technical/vocational trades (building, carpentry, welding, and other hands-on practical trades), advanced dressmaking, secretarial studies, office management, and English language study. Interest-free educational loans are also made available for those students wishing to complete their studies in Palestinian universities.

To find out more about DSPR and Amos’ work in Gaza, please watch our short film.

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Campaigning for Palestinian rights during lockdown Season 1, Episode 1

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With Robert Cohen in conversation with Sami Awad and Elias D’eis discussing the situation in Bethlehem and throughout Palestine today and asking how we in the UK should look to focus our efforts during this time. Sami Awad is Founder of Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem, one of Amos Trust’s partners in the West Bank and Elias D’eis is Holy Land Trust’s Executive Director. Host Robert Cohen is a forthright blogger and one of the leading dissident Jewish voices on Israel-Palestine in Britain today and an Amos trustee.

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Growing Up With Sitti First Of The Month | April 2021

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First Of The Month — a new big read from Amos Trust. Digital-only, long-form essays from Amos staff, friends and creative collaborators. For April’s edition, Asmaa Tayeh from We Are Not Numbers in Gaza writes about losing her 95-year old grandmother.

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Change The Record First Of The Month | September 2021

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Amos Trust works alongside a wide variety of partners to promote equal rights for Palestinians, to campaign against Israel’s apartheid policies and to call for an end to the military occupation of the Palestinian territories. We seek to find creative ways to raise awareness, educate and challenge stereotypes by communicating the message and experiences of our partners and friends in the different areas within which we work.

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A Taste of Palestine First Of The Month | November 2021

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“Entering the Old City is a wonderful induction into Palestinian food and markets. Women from the surrounding villages sell fresh produce on the steps, the aroma of cardamom-infused coffee from street vendors hangs in the air.” Gemma Bell and Heather Masoud take us on a journey to the markets, restaurants and kitchens of Palestine. Photography by Issy Croker.

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Run The Wall First Of The Month | April 2022

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“I gave myself ten months to do it but gave up, defeated after four, admitting this would never be a popular fundraiser and that I was no runner. So Run The Wall was shelved.” Katie Hagley writes about how, eventually, Run The Wall became such a success.

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6 Stories First Of The Month | May 2022

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Hello. Are you sitting comfortably? Welcome to 6 Stories, a literary update on our work from around the world. As the writer, James Joyce once said, “in the particular is contained the universal.” For what is given as being uniquely ours is often what we most have in common with every other person on this planet.

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We Feel Her Absence: The Killing of a Journalist First Of The Month | June 2022

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When I was a child, one of our neighbours in Gaza was a TV journalist, and she would let me wear her press vest. There I was, in a too-large navy-blue vest, holding the pestle that my mother used for crushing spices like a microphone, pretending to read the news from an Al-Jazeera news ticker. I would always end the ‘report’ by identifying myself as the Palestinian press icon: “Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera, The Occupied Jerusalem.” Walaa Sabah from We Are Not Numbers in Gaza writes about the killing of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh.

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Ellen Logan, Linzy Na Nakorn and Noor Thabet “...enough hope to get me through the next year.”

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Jessie and Tilly chat with Ellen Logan, Linzy Na Nakorn and Noor Thabet from The Big Ride for Palestine. Initiated in 2015, ‘The Big Ride’ is an initiative by supporters of the Palestinian people that combines a love of cycling with practical solidarity and awareness-raising.

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Enas Fares Ghannam and Walaa Sabbah “Hope is knowing that you are valuable. Hope is the key to life.”

Podcast | Finding hope in Gaza | FREE
Jessie and Tilly chat with Enas Fares Ghannam and Walaa Sabbah live from Gaza City. Enas and Walla work with We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led Palestinian non-profit project in the Gaza Strip.

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