Dear friends and colleagues.

As I am designing a mental health interventions for women and children in my
village Silwaad and the city of Qalqilia with my team for an MCH course, an idea
of Building Hope Campaign came about. Here is a Palestinian graffiti artists
group offering to spray our, your messages too on the separation wall. This is
just one of the ways we plan to utilize to spread our messages of health and
hope.

Thinking of building hope as a way to aid Palestinians cope with mental health
(and other health) problems caused by the occupation, and the wall, I would
like to invite you to contribute with your ideas. Please send your
messages/ideas to me or to the link below. If you choose to send your ideas to
me, I will do my best to share them and paint them on the wall and for free. If
you use the link below, there is a fee . The cost is listed in the article below
and funds go to support grassroots youth social and cultural organizations in
the West Bank.

www.sendamessage.nl

Just think of the power of turning this Apartheid wall into a big public health,
peace, truth and reconciliation display board, on both sides, the Israeli and
Palestinian.

Also, the Israeli Apartheid Weeks is March 1 - 8th

http://apartheidweek.org

Feel free to contact me on local educational events. Stay tuned to information
on the upcoming Congressman Baird report back on his visit to Gaza.

In solidarity.
Amineh



Spray your tag on West Bank wall -- online
Wed Feb 25, 4:18 pm ET

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – It could turn out to be the world's longest
graffiti space -- the massive concrete barrier separating Israel from the
Palestinians.

Over the Internet, a group of Palestinian graffiti artists is offering to
spray-paint your personal message on Israel's towering security wall in the
occupied West Bank.

It costs 30 euros ($40) per message and they can be as solemn or wacky as you
want. Everything goes, except for obscene, offensive or extremist hate speech.
Clients get three digital pictures of the finished product.

The 8-meter (25-foot) high barrier of massive concrete slabs is part of a 620-km
(385-mile) fence Israel says is intended to keep suicide bombers out, and which
can be dismantled at some point in the future when peace reigns.

But with its slit-eyed watchtowers and burgeoning Palestinian protest graffiti,
it is already reminiscent of the hated Berlin Wall, which divided the German
capital for 28 years before it was torn down 10 years ago.

The taggers at www.sendamessage.nl are members of the Palestinian Peace and
Freedom Youth Forum, which set up the scheme in collaboration with a Dutch
Christian organization.

"It is a new way to speak with the people, that we the Palestinians exist," says
graffiti artist Yusef Njm.

"We are not only throwing stones and clashing. We are alive. We think in a new
way to tell them that we are alive."

Organizers stress that revenue does not go to buy weapons for the Palestinians.
It is intended to support grassroots social and cultural projects in the West
Bank.

(Writing by Douglas Hamilton; editing by Michael Roddy)