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Micro Financing - May 2015 update

Posted in VPM In The News

USD 1,500 was given as Islamic loan to this widow in Gaza Strip It has changed her life. She is highly skilled in knitting woollen garments. With the loan she bought some wool balls, and started knitting kids clothes. She promoted it to Palestinian families in Gaza Strip who bought them for their babies. After 3 months she attracted a lot of customers who bought her woollen clothing selection. She now makes USD 300-350 per month. Alhamdulillah! This is one of 50 micro-credit project funded by VPM in collaboration with Rowad Society for social development.

Below is a link to an article that was published in Al Monitor – The Pulse of the Middles East newslatter on VPM’s Islamic loans given to women in Gaza to help them to survive poverty:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/05/palestine-female-headed-families-good-loans-poverty.html#

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The Newsmakers: Gaza - life on the strip

Posted in Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR3KlMbeHHE

They call it ‘the world’s biggest prison’. Nearly two million people live on a small strip of land, about the same size as Manhattan. Very few people get in or out of the Gaza strip. It’s under an Israeli blockade - by land, sea and air. Inside, a generation has grown up knowing only conflict, poverty and destruction. Nicole Johnston has reported on Gaza for years, and covered two wars with Israel from the strip. In this Newsmakers documentary she returns during peacetime, to see how people have survived ten years under siege.

African National Congress has made BDS against Israel an official policy

Posted in Gaza

south africa bds 2012For the first time ever, the African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party in South Africa, today made the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel part of its official policy.

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi of BDS South Africa said the decision "by the ANC's National Conference, its highest decision making body, is by far the most authoritative endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel campaign."

UNESCO declares Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – as Muslim

Posted in Other News

"The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has reclassified Judaism's holiest site as solely Muslim, in a move branded as absurd and "anti-Semitic" by Israel.

The Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem have been viewed as holy territory under Jewish faith. But UNESCO has now classed them as Muslim sites, which are known in Islam as the Haram esh-Sharif and Buraq Wall..."

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/unesco-declares-judaisms-holiest-site-temple-mount-muslim-not-jewish-1586276