18 Habankim Street
Haifa 31996
Israel
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- Media
The establishment of 7amleh was driven by the necessity to raise the profile and capacity of online Palestinian advocacy, both in terms of raising awareness of Palestinian issues to an international audience, but also among Palestinians themselves. Social media offers the perfect channel through which to conduct grassroots advocacy campaigns, due to both the established and growing popularity of social media around the world, particularly with young people, and the ease and speed with which information can be shared, reaching people who may not otherwise have been engaged with the subject.
Goals
- Provide Palestinians with a professional center for new and social media
- Offer social media trainings for groups working towards positive social change
- Create and run innovative media campaigns to raise the political awareness both among Palestinians and the international community.
Activities
- Advocacy: aimed at an international audience in order to to raise the profile of Palestinians and their issues in an attempt to address the lack of knowledge, news and information of Palestinians from both sides of the Green Line and the diaspora. Our advocacy seeks to challenge preconceptions and stereotypes, providing insights into the political issues and cultural lives which comprise the Palestinian reality.
- Campaigns: targeting Palestinians, especially those inside Israel, is an important part of the center’s work. These campaigns focus on social as well as political problems facing the Palestinian community inside Israel, including issues such as violence, sectarianism and identity issues.
-Training sessions: providing Palestinian civil society with professional, specialised staff in the field of alternative and social media. Training sessions aim to impart the latest skills and strategies for online advocacy, creating campaign materials and short film production. Training sessions are available to all Arab civil society groups working for positive change.
7amleh will contribute to the network by supporting links and sharing ideas with linkemind organizations about social media activism, social changes, advocacy, human rights and training capacities. We are looking forward to developing further our operational capacity in the years ahead.It is in this, we believe that your supportn and collaboration would benefit us in developing diverse competencies to be used in our region. Furthermore, we would like to offer sustainable support to the other NGOs in terms of cooperation, ideas and suggestions on how to develop and promote projects as well as to stregnten future cooperations and chances for our organization and our tagret group.
7amleh would be glad to join the ALF Network to have the opportunity to collaborate with the region-wide network of the organizations connected with Anna Lindh Foundation. We do believe that this represents a priceless opportunity to contribute to the improvement of the skills and capacities of Palestinian civil society in social media advocacy. Joining the network could represent an influential platform to raise the capacity of online Palestinian advocacy, both in terms of raising awareness about human rights of Palestinian issues to an international audience, but also among Palestinians themselves.