As part of its ongoing community efforts and through its distinguished program for rehabilitating the homes of families in need, the Community Service Center at An-Najah National University recently rehabilitated two homes in the city of Nablus and the town of Asira al-Shamaliya. The first was for a family headed by a single mother and her two daughters, in cooperation with the Center for Women's Studies – Nablus, where the family was suffering from a difficult social situation and moved to a new home with the help of the Center for Women's Studies. The difficult condition of the house, which included poor sanitation, a dilapidated kitchen, high levels of moisture, and moldy walls, was addressed. The second home was for a family from the northern town of Asira, consisting of a disabled father, mother, and four children. The house was in very poor condition, Intervention was carried out to rehabilitate an abandoned room that was unfit for habitation, tile the floor, install aluminum windows to protect against the cold and prevent rainwater from damaging the old windows, and rehabilitate the electrical wiring. Funding was provided by the center's Multaqa Al-Khair Committee Fund.
Program coordinator Osama Bani Odeh stated that due to the lack of external funding for the program, the center's team and volunteers are mobilizing local funding for these cases through monetary and in-kind donations from generous individuals and through charity card donations collected by students enrolled in community service courses. With these contributions, the center was able to rehabilitate more than 30 cases in the city of Nablus and surrounding villages during the past year from various groups supported by the center (the poor, the elderly, families headed by women, etc.). It is worth mentioning that a number of cases were carried out in partnership with student groups from the engineering and community course and other volunteer groups. Bani Odeh added that there are still many cases on the program's waiting list.
Mr. Bilal Salama, Director of the Community Service and Continuing Education Center, emphasized that the center continues to rehabilitate the homes of marginalized groups in our society, believing that healthy housing is a human right that must be achieved for all. He added that these programs stem from An-Najah National University's social responsibility towards the local community to raise the health, housing, and social standards of marginalized groups. He added that the center's work in these areas is based on professional social service principles centered on human rights, which the center has adopted in all its programs since its establishment.
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