This Week in Palestine talks to Yasmine Noor, who was born in Rafah but left at a young age. She returned to Palestine in the late nineties and went through high school in Ramallah (at a time when people could move from Gaza to the West Bank). She came to the US in Sep. 2000, two weeks before the second uprising, and was not able to return to Gaza until now. She holds a BA degree in Religion and an MA in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She is also the co-founder of a grassroots relief organization called Save Gaza, which is what brought her back to Gaza. Ms. Noor returned to Gaza to implement a sustainable gardening project in an effort to allow local Gazan families to grow gardens using very few resources and not have to rely on relief handouts.
This program was produced by Sherif Fam for This Week In Palestine for June 24, 2007.
For more information, visit:
truthandjusticeradio.org
savegaza.org
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