Despite the difficult socio-economic situation, the rates of school attendance in Palestine are among the highest in the region. Enrolment rates of boys and girls are almost equal.
The Palestinian province capital of Nablus, the location of implementation of this project, is situated in the northern West Bank, 60 km north of Jerusalem. It is home to about 120,000 people. Like all other West Bank cities, Nablus is cut off from the outside world by the so-called security wall to the west, and a broad belt of inaccessible areas to the east. Israeli incursions and bombings have destroyed most industrial facilities in Nablus: economic activities all but came to a standstill. More than half of the residents of the old city of Nablus, its poorest quarter, depend on food rations from UNRWA. Average family size stands at eight persons, most of them children of school age.
The 550 school children targeted in this project are forced to study under these conditions. Their impoverished parents, who are hardly able to provide them with food, are unable to afford school bags, stationery and pens and pencils, the most basic learning tools.
Old City Charity Society, a charitable organization that aims to promote public awareness and education as well as economic empowerment of women, proposes to distribute school bags and stationery to 550 impoverished students of all educational phases.
Our children take it for granted that they will receive a new school bag and sufficient stationery at the beginning of every school year. Your generous donation will provide the same to these disadvantaged students who are eager to study and live a better life.
Project Details:
Donor: The Lady Fatemah (A.S.) Charitable Trust-London.
Organization: HRS - Humanitarian Relief Society.
Authority: Registered Non-Government Organization in Palestine.
Address: Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine.
Contact person: Professor Bassam Banat, president, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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, 00972 599 678 306.
Beneficiaries: impoverished school children in the old city of Nablus.
Number of Beneficiaries: 550 students.
Date of the project: October 24, 2012.
Project materials for each student:
| No. | Material | No. |
| 1 | Bag | 1 |
| 2 | Stationery: Notebook | 10 |
| 3 | Ruler | 2 |
| 4 | Pencil | 12 |
| 5 | Colored pencils | 12 |
| 6 | Ball Pen | 1 |
| 7 | Stickers | 20 |
| 8 | Pencil sharpener | 2 |
| 9 | Book covers | 5 |
| 10 | Drawing pad | 1 |
| 11 | Student dairy | 1 |
| 12 | Correction pen | 1 |
| 13 | Eraser | 2 |
Upon the completion of this charity project and on behalf of Palestinians in the old city of Nablus, the Mayor of Nablus, old city charity society members and the HRS board members I would like to extend my deepest thanks and appreciation to The Lady Fatemah (A.S.) Charitable Trust for their generous support for our brothers and sisters in the old city of Nablus.
Beneficiaries characteristics:
| Distribution of the beneficiaries by gender | Distribution of the beneficiaries by refugee status |
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| Distribution of the beneficiaries by category of the family | Distribution of the beneficiaries by number of family members |
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We have done this charity project not by our efforts alone, but also through your generous support and kindness, may Allah bless you and reward you the Jana, Ameen. “inna lanudeeAAu ajra man ahsana AAamala” (We will not allow to be lost the reward of any who did well in deeds). Sadaga Allah Al Atheem.
With my deepest salaamas and duas,
Professor Bassam Banat,
President
