This week the children took a field trip that was both educational and very fun. Wi’am staff and volunteers arranged a visit to the historic village of Taybeh and the amusement park in Ramallah.   The road to Taybeh is scenic but quite long since the bus must by-pass Jerusalem on winding roads through the […]

A full week of summer camp is coming to a close at Wi’am this Friday. Attendance has grown each day as children invite their friends. Throughout the week, the center strived to provide the campers with fruit and other snacks to keep their bodies healthy and running during the long summer days. Tuesday, everyone fled […]

The Wi’am Center opened its gates for summer camp today, the first Monday in July. Local children and youth came and were soon wearing shirts and hats reading “مخيم التسامح و العطاء و الحبة ” –the “Reconciliation, Agape, and Giving Camp”. Staff and volunteers led the children in crafts, sports, and dancing. During one craft, […]

This summer, as in past summers, Wi’am will be hosting children from Monday-Friday in an interactive summer camp in which we strive to combine educational activities with fun, relaxing activities for children to unwind and let off stress. Right now we are hosting local children every Friday in a preview of the summer camp before […]

Although summer in Palestine is very hot, we consider it a special time of year. Various local produce are ready for harvesting, starting early on with lemons and almonds, going through apricots and fakous (a vegetable in the cucumber family) among others, and culminating with the legendary olive harvest after that, around September. The summer […]

As part of its mission to build a culture of nonviolence in Palestine, staff from the Wi’am center often participate in efforts to create an international witness to life here. This past week we attended a very important event- a solidarity service at the Cremisan Monastery for the World Week for Peace. Last week at […]

Wednesday, the Wi’am staff joined with Sarah from Cambridge, England, for a very creative morning. The workshop began with an artistic exercise. Staff and volunteers each drew a tree on a sheet of paper using crayons, pens, and colored pencils. Each part of their tree represented a part of their experience; the roots were our […]

The “key of return” left Palestine to Berlin, the 8th of March, to become a landmark in Einalie-Berlin gallery, which will be attended by the most important artists in the world and it will last for two months. People and news agencies from around Palestine gathered together in a ceremony where speakers addressed the importance […]

Women’s day at Cremisan 2-12-2011 A symphony of babbling and laughter filled the office of WI’AM on Friday the second of December. A group of women who visit WI’AM on a regular basis and members of Wiam’s women group, cheerfully arrived one by one, looking forward to the days program. On the agenda was a […]

Is there room for the Palestinians in the Inn, the UN INN? The essence of Christmas is warmth and security for the afflicted, the homeless, the marginalized and all the downtrodden. This is the Spirit of Christmas, as Christ recited from the prophesy of Isaiah: “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he […]