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Posts Tagged ‘camps’

Video: Harvesting Oranges

By Nadia Hasan • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Newswire, Palestine, Video

Early in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp [Sabbah: Palestinian Refugee Camp] in South Lebanon. It is in the darkness of the early morning hours that hundreds of Palestinian day laborers leave their homes, gather in [...]

Sabra-Shatila Foundation: XO Laptops to the children of Palestinian camps

By Haitham Sabbah • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Haitham's Choice, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Palestine

Donations to Support Our XO Laptop Program are Greatly Appreciated
Note: The Sabra Shatila Foundation is funding the purchase and shipment of as many XO laptops as possible from the MIT One Laptop Per Child program. These unique self-powered, wind-up, internet-ready laptops cost approximately $180 per unit to manufacture, but they are offered in lots of [...]