Diane Adkin 10/14/16 Diane Adkin 10/14/16

Peace Corps for Palestine

CRPCA is an association of returned Peace Corps volunteers living in the Portland, Oregon area. They are committed to ideals of service and community, at home and abroad. We thank them for believing in this project in Palestine..

Diane Adkin 10/3/16 Diane Adkin 10/3/16

Small change, big impact

You can support projects in Palestine with your spare change! The Land of Canaan Foundation has partnered with CaringCent to make it easy.

Diane Adkin 9/2/16 Diane Adkin 9/2/16

Agro-Resistance

Farming your own land is a superb form of non-violent resistance to occupation. Respected journalist Jonathan Cook writes that centuries of cultivation of the olive tree has rooted Palestinians to the soil as deeply as their trees.

Diane Adkin 7/27/16 Diane Adkin 7/27/16

Ahlan wa Sahlan

The House of Fair Trade in the old city of Jenin is ready for a few more centuries of use! The PFTA wanted to make better use of their centuries-old headquarters…

Diane Adkin 7/18/16 Diane Adkin 7/18/16

Battir village

Battir village in the Bethlehem district of Palestine is a World Heritage Site for its amazing agricultural terraces and irrigation systems that are over 2000 years old and still in use to this day.

Diane Adkin 6/24/16 Diane Adkin 6/24/16

Water is a human right

Water is a human right, a basic need, the UN recognized in 2010. Yet every summer, water to Palestinian villages is cut off for days and weeks while illegal settlements are not affected.

Diane Adkin 2/15/16 Diane Adkin 2/15/16

Palestine’s almonds

The Guardian sustainable business section: Organic almonds sow hope in Palestine.

Diane Adkin 9/9/15 Diane Adkin 9/9/15

Really help Palestine

We have a goal of building an independent Palestinian economy. This means addressing international aid and questions of dependency versus self reliance, and connecting aid with the struggle for national liberation and human rights.

Diane Adkin 8/8/15 Diane Adkin 8/8/15

Reusing Water in Jenin

Farmers in Jenin have formed the first water cooperative in the West Bank. The program will benefit 240 farming families in need of better irrigation methods for their land. There is a water crisis in the West Bank under the occupation.

Diane Adkin 6/4/15 Diane Adkin 6/4/15

A Manufactured Poverty

Imagine what Palestinian farmers can do when they are free and not living under the manufactured poverty of military occupation.

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