My experience during Kaif Shaifha tour: Baraah Qandeel

My experience during Kaif Shaifha tour

Baraah Qandeel

We as young people, and members of this community as will, have a lot of responsibilities, and to describe it in a different way is a misrepresentation of the truth. Although it is a heavy responsibility, it is endearing to the hard in a way that is difficult to explain. Besides, the performance of our societal role has always been a gesture that we offer with love and sincerity more than it is duty, and our life of etch of us is incomplete without doing it. 

Playing this role has always been fun and beneficial despite the fatigue caused by it. Therefore, I never let myself lost chance, or even let it go. That is why I joined several institutions and have many experiences with them. This is how I became the youth activist that I am now.  Perhaps the most prominent of those institutions that open their doors to me is The Social Developmental Forum. In this institution I still working, learning more and getting armed with what they teach me, by doing that, I want to be the best model for a good citizenship that is aware of what it has and what it owes, can demand what it has in an audible, clear and balanced voice, performs what it owes with passion and belonging advocates for every just caused, and talks with officials in her community and questions them.

Actually, my motive for writing this post is my last participation with SDF, in particular in [Kaif Shaifha tour] which was done by Wasla team. This tour is about emergency mechanisms for evacuation and save accommodation for persons with disabilities. My colleagues and I visited several places that are directly and effectively related to the topic. The beginning was with the Palestinian Civil Defense followed by Palestinian Red Crescent, and finally we finish our tour with The Palestinian General Union for persons with disabilities… in those stations we were the leader of the interviews which was done with the represent or of each institution. In this tour, we got acquainted with the mechanisms and steps taken by these institutions in emergency situations. What is the share of people with disabilities, how to secure their save evacuation and shelter in such times, and how these institutions work with other to achieve successful networking to implement these plans and achieve their objectives? All dialogue sessions ended with a set of recommendations that we presented to the officials wishing that they will be taken into consideration. 

It was a fruitful, new and unique experience. It added a lot to me, expanded my horizons and gave me the motivation to continue in the role I chose for myself. This role is to be a youth activist and an active woman in her community. It is an experience I would like to go again and again.