Few days ago, the Bedouin community of Ras Al Auja, along with International and Palestinian volunteers from Jordan Valley Solidarity, have started to build a school made of mud bricks.

Ras Al Awja is a community of about 300 families living in very hard conditions. They use to live in another part of the village where today a settler lives alone in a settlement that takes the best agricultural land of the area.

They now live not far from Al Auja water spring. This spring use to be one of the main water ressources in the Jordan Valley, giving water for a big part of the Southern Palestine. Today the spring is dried. The occupational forces dug a deep well beside the spring and its water is now distributed only to the settlements.

Settlers enjoy all kind of accomodation – running water, electricity, transportation, telecommunication, land, etc – and Palestinians live with electric pylons over their heads and water lines under their feet but can not benefit from them.

Bedouins of Ras Al Awja, like most of the Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley, face as well, the expension of the settlements implemented all around their community and struggle everyday to stay on their land.

In order to encourage this community and the communities around to stay on their land, JVS helps them to make their life a little bit easier.

One exemple of this help is to work with them building a school.

The first step of this project was two month ago. We sew sac cloth together to make a tent school.

Few days ago we started to make mud bricks to build a proper school, like we did in Fasayel.

Palestinian and International volunteers coming from England, Columbia, Argentina, … , along with women and children from the community.

First of all, the workers delimited the  area where they want to build the school and then cleaned it from stones.

 

Then they mixed soil and water and one of the women from the community was the first one to put her feet into the mud to achieve a good mix. All the wome, young and old, did their best.

The children participated as well, enjoying learning how to make mud briks to build their own school.

The volunteers finished their working days with tea and delicious food made by the community.

At the end of the first day, the group had finished the first one hundred bricks for the school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join us participating in the construction of a school for more than 200 children who do not have access to education in their area yet …

Join us to challenge the occupation supporting a Bedouin community to stay on their land.  

Join us to see the situation in the Jordan Valley and fight for the right of Al Awja people.