Over the past few months many activities have been carried out in Gaza.  In particular a project for children with special needs was very successful.

In addition, the librarians/ facilitators attended a workshop with the Gaza Community and Mental Health Programme.  The twice weekly workshops ran for a month and dealt with stress-release and how to detect traumatized children.

During special sessions with an artist, several children wrote and illustrated their own stories.   Some of these stories have been included in a special book called Gardens of Hope, published by Kalimat in al Sharjah in the UAE. The book is bi-lingual and was distributed at the Sharjah Book Fair in November.  

At the beginning of October Brazilian writer and journalist Luciana Savaget joined a joint programme by PBBY and the Tamer Institute.

These are pictures of work with young people with Special Needs, in this session the participants were deaf and dumb. The course was "Creative writing and analyzing a story" and took place at the Palestinian Red Cross Centre in Gaza.

Activities in al-Shawka library in Rafah Gaza, some of which took place in the open air.