Cultural program

The Give Palestine Association has adopted a pioneering project aimed at supporting the Palestinian child's culture. This project has successfully established 42 model children's libraries in the heart of residential areas in the Gaza Strip and marginalized villages in the governorates of Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Give Palestine has also implemented campaigns to encourage children to read in schools, libraries, and public institutions. The idea began by attracting children to reading and cultural activities through wall advertisements, as well as press and radio announcements. Give Palestine aimed to spread culture among children through their favorite methods, such as fast songs and children's performance troupes, such as the "Mama Karima Family" troupe in Gaza and the "Gazelle Family" troupe in the West Bank. These are cultured families that love reading and encourage children to learn and gain knowledge.

The society has also successfully organized 3 specialized summer camps. The first was the first scouting camp for orphaned children in Gaza, the second was a technology camp for children in Egypt, and the third was a physical and psychological rehabilitation camp for a group of children injured in the 2009 events in Latvia, Eastern Europe.

To keep pace with the tremendous technological development in recent years, the society launched the "Listen and Read" application for children on smart devices and the internet in 2014. This is the first Arabic application that allows children to listen to stories read aloud with images and in an exciting way. The application is free for children, and the stories are published by Dar Al-Fati Al-Arabi, the leading publishing house specializing in children's stories in the Arab world.

In 2019, the society launched the "I am the Creator" project for children from all Palestinian governorates. This project includes a short story writing competition called "I am the Narrator," which was widely successful in its first session and attracted nearly 1,000 competing stories, along with the "I am the Painter" competition for children to draw on the themes of the winning stories. Give Palestine published the five winning stories along with children's drawings on their themes, and these stories were distributed in libraries in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem.

The total number of beneficiaries of the cultural program reached approximately 450,000 beneficiaries distributed across all governorates of the homeland.

Achievements of the Cultural Program

• Project Name: Equipping Model Children's Libraries

• Project Activity: Equipping public libraries for children in the heart of residential areas in the Gaza Strip and marginalized villages in the governorates of Jerusalem and the West Bank. This includes fully equipping the library with maintenance work, furniture, books and stories, computers, a projector, and educational and entertaining cartoons for children.

• Number of Beneficiaries: 93,000 children annually

• Project Name: Equipping Existing Libraries

• Project Activity: Enriching the libraries of the Ministry of Education and cultural centers and other clubs with various books and providing them with educational and documentary films.

• Number of Beneficiaries: 60,000 children

• Project Name: Campaigns to Encourage Reading and Psychological Relief

• Project Activity: Implementing 200 theatrical performances for children in residential areas and inside libraries and clubs through the society's theatrical troupes (Mama Karima Family) and (Gazelle Family). These performances are for the psychological relief of children and encourage them to read. Among these campaigns are: "We Fly with the Book Over the Walls" and "The Book is My Window to the World."

• Number of Beneficiaries: 40,000 children

• Project Name: Theatrical Troupes

• Project Activity: Establishing a theatrical troupe (Mama Karima Family) in Gaza through cartoon characters representing the kangaroo animal, forming the "Mama Karima Family" and her children. This is a cultured family that loves reading and encourages children to learn and follow everything new and useful, and teaches them to follow good behavior in addition to supporting them psychologically. Due to the positive impact of the troupe, Give Palestine reapplied it in the West Bank through the (Gazelle Family) troupe, which works with children in Palestinian villages in the West Bank.

• Project Name: Listen and Read Application

• Project Activity: An application on smart devices (Android and Apple systems) that allows children to read a distinguished collection of stories with sound and image in an exciting way.

• Number of Beneficiaries: 3,000 children

• Project Name: I am the Creator for Cultural Competitions

• "I am the Narrator" Competition

• "I am the Painter" Competition

• Printing and Publishing the Winning Stories

• Project Activity: Give Palestine launched a short story writing competition called "I am the Narrator," which was widely successful. In 2018, the competition attracted nearly 1,000 competing stories from all governorates and schools in the homeland, along with a children's drawing competition that matches and themes of the winning stories. Give Palestine published the five winning stories as illustrated books for children and distributed them in libraries in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem.

• Number of Participants: 1,500 children