The Housing Rehabilitation Program, one of the programs of the Community Service and Continuing Education Center at An-Najah National University, has completed the “Housing Rehabilitation for Needy Families in Nablus Governorate” project, which was funded by a grant from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and financed by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. The project was of a socio-engineering nature and involved intervention in 60 cases monitored by the program, including the rehabilitation of five schools to make them suitable for students with special needs. The remaining cases involved poor families comprising more than 315 individuals, distributed as follows: 13
families headed by women, 11 cases of people with special needs, 7 cases of elderly people, and 24 poor families
Twenty recreational activities and trips were also organized for children from the target groups in various communities in the Nablus governorate where the project was implemented, in cooperation with the community education support program provided by the center in these communities. More than 525 students benefited from these activities.
The program also conducted 10 training courses on topics such as public safety, civil defense, first aid, nutrition, and other topics for volunteers of community initiatives in the project's areas of operation.
The program also conducted 10 training courses on topics such as public safety, civil defense, first aid, nutrition, and other topics for volunteers of community initiatives in the project's areas of operation.
Program coordinator Osama Bani Odeh pointed out that most of the cases targeted by the program are included in the lists of the Directorate of Social Affairs, where the program worked to rehabilitate these homes in partnership with a number of partners, whether from the local community or relevant community institutions. He added that the team, consisting of engineer Walaa Kilani and social researchers Rana Awad and Bahij Nassar, formed an integrated team throughout the 24-month project, They worked side by side to discuss the tasks assigned to them, from selecting and sorting cases according to priority and searching for other sources of funding for the cases in addition to the amounts allocated by the primary funding source, to writing technical and social reports and following up on cases technically and socially, and then determining the required intervention with the active participation of the beneficiary families to meet their material and social needs.
In addition to this project, the center continued to rehabilitate a number of individual cases in Nablus and elsewhere, with funding from the center's Multaqa Al-Khair Committee fund and donations from generous people in the governorate, with the aim of improving the living conditions of poor families to make them more suitable and healthier, and raising awareness among citizens of their right to healthy and adequate housing.
Mr. Bilal Salama, Director of the Community Service and Continuing Education Center, said that this project enabled the center to expand its services in the field of rehabilitating the homes of needy families, and affirmed that the center will continue to pursue the program, albeit at a slower pace, in this field in which the center is unique, based on its belief that healthy housing is a human right that must be achieved for all. The director of the center thanked the project staff for their efforts and creative interventions, as well as the Arab Fund for Reconstruction and Development.
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