In the evening of Monday 17 August the Work Brigade 2009 started from Rome.

The Italians members have been reached during overnight stopover in Budapest and on arrival in Beirut by some other members from Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom, and on Tuesday 18 they went all together to Sidon to meet the comrades of the Lebanon-Palestinian Nashet association.

In the morning of Wednesday 19 the Brigade entered into the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh.

The brigade came back to Europe in the morning of Friday 4 September.

Our project has attracted the interest of the Lebanese media, and our Brigade has been interviewed by several newspapers, including Al-Akhbar, Daily Star, Addiyar and Al-Binaa and by the Al-Manar TV.

Look at the Report and Pictures sent by our Brigade from the labor camp in Ein el-Hilweh (updated to September 3rd and with new pictures).

 

 

The restructuration of the building, that will be used as a political and cultural center, open to all the young people in the camp, costed (in addition to nearly three weeks of work by around twenty volunteers, who paid on their own all travel, room and board expenses) almost € 10,000, and also furnish and equip the renovated building is expensive.

Sumud isn't an ONG, it isn't subsidized by state governments or by European Union or UNO. The money that will be used for this project will be clean, they will not come from the same institutions that support or back the aggession to the Palestinian People.

We have already done a lot, but we can reach the needed amount of money to make the center an operative one only if many people partecipate.

If you are interested in our project of building renovation for remedial teaching, you can look at the brochure that illustrate it shortly.

You can donate by clicking on the button below; you can use your Paypal account, your Credit Card (normal or prepaid) or an online credit transfer.

If you prefer to use more traditional paying ways, you can do a credit transfer to our bank account.

current account made out to:
Sumud: volontariato e resistenza
at: Banca Popolare Etica
IBAN: IT19U0501802800000000127032
BIC: CCRTIT2T84A.

 

For any doubt, question or request for information, please contact us.