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PARC
receives a delegation from "Christian Aid-UK"
Date: 02/02/2011
PARC has received in its head office in
Gaza, a delegation from "British Christian
Aid", the delegation includes all of Mrs.
Joanna Rogers, Mr. William Bell, Mrs.
Hanan El-Maso, and their consultant in
Gaza Mr. Azzam El-Saqqa.
This visit come in order to see the
results of qualitative research prepared
by PARC, on how to protect livelihoods in
the security buffer zones during the past
five years, this research funded by
"Christian Aid-UK", the delegation also
made a field tour to hold meetings with
farmers from those areas.
PARC team pointed out that this visit came
in order to view the research results, to
knowledge the implementation mechanism in
the field, and make professional
comparisons about the agricultural
situation in Gaza Strip, and then transfer
this true picture, experiences and
problems faced by local farmers in those
areas, to the farmers in Britain in order
to create interaction and communication
between both of them.
From the other side, PARC team accompanied
the delegation in a field trip to some of
the security buffer zones represented in
Beit Hanon, Shejaeya, and Juhr El-Deek
area, where the delegation met a number of
farmers who have been subjected to the
research study, and others outside the
study benefited from the projects
implemented by PARC, in order to find out
research outputs and convert it to similar
inputs, and a mechanism to develop it to
serve the farmers and commensurate with
their abilities, and to develop mechanisms
to intervene by the pressure, advocacy,
and establish approaches of which
currently being implemented and what will
be implemented in the future.
PARC team mentioned the bright picture
presented by the farmers of those areas to
the visiting delegation, as they show a
full of determination, an insistence to
stay on their lands, the ability to
withstand, keep their land away from ruin
and abandonment, also they show their
strong willing to re-plant it, despite the
difficult situations they suffer from,
which turned them from the rich to the
searchers for a living aids.
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