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PALESTINE - YOUTH - HOPES &
DREAMS ONLINE VIDEO PROJECT - GIRLS
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“Hopes and Dreams” project encapsulates the youngsters’ aspirations, bringing
together on-line a community divided and scattered by decades of statelessness
and exile.....Each student is recording a 30-second message. These will form
the basis of a living network for the future.....
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http://www.hopingfoundation.org/ -
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November 20, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary
of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child. But 20 years on, what difference has it
made in the lives of hundreds of thousands of
Palestine refugee children?
To mark the anniversary, Hoping, in partnership
with the UN's Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is
unveiling a project in which Palestine refugee
school youth across the Middle East will create
the region's first ever online video yearbook.
This project captures their hopes and dreams and
creates an online community, previously divided
and scattered by decades of statelessness and exile.
Hundreds of flip cams have been distributed to tens
of thousands of students in UNRWA schools in Gaza,
the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Each
student is recording a 30 second message.They will
form the basis of a living network for the future,
to be added to each year.
The Yearbook has been endorsed by UN Secretary
General, Ban Ki Moon, who highlighted the project in
a recent statement. Author Philip Pullman, musician
and writer Nick Cave, and other prominent individuals
have also videod messages in support of the
Hoping/UNRWA initiative.
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