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Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia
Project No: (43D-2015)
Project Name: Scholarships for Palestinian universities students.
Implemented By: Palestine Aid Society.
In cooperation with: Al Quds open university, Gaza Strip.
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Al hamdulelah Palestinian Orphans house Society (POHS) has finished project No.(25/2015) which helped 8 of poor families by rehabilitation their homes.
This project was funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia and Mercy Malaysia foundation, so would like to thank all people who contributed and donated to implement this important project in Gaza Strip.
Project No: (25/2015)
Project Name: Rehabilitation poor families houses.
Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia.
In cooperation with: Engineering office in Al Ummah university
Targeted Area: Middle of Gaza Strip Governorate.
Targeted Group: 8 of Palestinian poor families.
Project Description: This project aimed to restore and maintain 8 houses of poor families, Targeted beneficiaries are selected according to special criteria. Then price offers prepared and awarded. The maintenance process started after that in order to rehabilitate the houses to become habitable. The maintenance process included the restoration of kitchens and bathrooms, painting and tiling works and maintenance of doors and windows as the need for each house. The project will produce health and comfort houses which will become habitable for at least 20 years.
Short Video for Project No: (25/2015)- Rehabilitation Poor Families Houses
Targeted Area: Middle of Gaza Governorate
Targeted Group: 8 poor families
Implemented by: Palestinian Orphans House Society (POHS)
There are 500 families at Al-Yarmouk camp, Syria, who face a tough winter without electricity and running water. There are hundreds of families in Gaza still homeless after the Zionist aggression last summer.
Please join us in our campaign to provide them with blankets, heaters and warming clothing. Bank details given in the poster and on our website vpm.org.my.
Thanks Ezz Al Zanoon for the photo.
Meeting with Rowad society for social development and Family & children Society for development to Prepare for implementing new phase of (Micro credit finance projects for empowering Palestinian families), in this phase Viva Palestina Malaysia will enable 8 of poor families to start their micro projects in order to develop their economic situation gradually.
New success story for poor Palestinian family:
They were living in bad economic situations, without any source of income, their father is suffering from chronic disease, so they always need to provide special medicine for him, in addition have two sons need to pay for their university fees to continue their studying, all of this in addition to normal needs of live.
The family heard about Viva Palestina Malaysia micro loan project, and they applied for getting micro loan in Rowad society office (local partner for VPM), after they fit the project conditions, they got their loan for starting small project.
Then they have started their small project "Mini Market", and their income starts rising, and now they feel comfortable, because they can provide their father medicine, and pay some of universities fee.
Our great thank for VPM donors who change the families live in Palestine, and always support Palestinian people withstanding.
Since her inception in Jan 2009, Viva Palestine Malaysia has been unrelenting in her pursuit towards advocating justice, peace, equality and self-determination for Palestine. In more tangible forms, VPM has transferred RM 10 Million worth of funds to finance various medical, educational, agricultural, housing, micro-financing and women’s projects in Palestine.
VPM has undertaken various advocacy and awareness campaigns to mainstream the Palestinian cause. The Kuala Lumpur Palestine Film Festival (KLPFF) has proven to be very impactful in screening to the Malaysian public the sufferings and persecution of the Palestinian people under Zionist occupation of their lands.
Our fourth KLPFF2015 will screen 4 films at Publika, Solaris Dutamas from 10-11 October 2015. One of the films “The Stones Cry Out” depicts the sufferings of the Palestinian Christians who have been driven out of their ancestral lands.
Following the 4th military onslaught of Gaza in July 2014, many university students were unable to fund their tertiary education. VPM raised RM750,000 to fund 600 students to continue their education in 7 universities in Gaza.
Concurrently, we hope to raise funds from KLPFF2015 to sponsor these students to pursue their studies until graduation. This is the investment of your generous donations towards the nation building of Palestine.
We dedicate KLPFF 2015 to the brave people of Palestine, whose resolve and spirit remain unbroken in the face of extreme odds. We salute the ordinary people of Palestine who have demonstrated extra-ordinary feats of valor and fortitude.
Project No.(41/2015)
Distribution Qurbani meat 1436 H.A
Project No:(05/2015) - Educational Sector. After waiting for 9 months for provider company to enter the needy equipment for Lab. Viva Palestina Malaysia & Islamic University of Gaza opened new computer lab. at IT building in Gaza City.
This Lab contains of 10 work-stations (Multi processors Pcs.), these work-stations will help IT college students, computer engineering college students and Multi media department students in doing their tasks and training on using the media programs for (photos and Video processing, web designing), since students need long time if they want to do the processing in their normal laptops or PCs, but if they use the work stations PCs they will save their time, and invest it to do other tasks.
In Summer IUG will use this lab for computerize some education courses to be online for every students in form of (Video Flash courses), in addition to that this lab will enable 10 post graduated students to on work on this program.
Funded By:VIVA PALESTINA MALAYSIA.
PRESS RELEASE
16 October 2015 / 3 Muharram 1437H
Viva Palestina Malaysia has been tracking very closely the tragic sequence of events in Palestine.
Our global partners have reported that up until 14 Oct 2015, 30 Palestinians have been murdered, many in cold blood. And 2,000 have been injured by Israel’s Occupation Forces (IOF) and fundamentalist settler terror groups since early October 2015.
A shoot-to-kill policy, among other illegal and draconian measures, have been adopted by the Israeli government in an attempt to violently suppress this mostly spontaneous popular revolt led by a new generation of Palestinians who will not accept living under Occupation and Apartheid.
The fact that Israel and its state-supported settler militias are committing their racist crimes in broad daylight and recorded live on television goes to show the level of impunity that Israel still enjoys. This simply demonstrates the deep complicity of the Superpowers and the West with the illegitimate Zionist Project in Israel and the abysmal failure of the UN to protect the basic human rights of the Palestinians.
Just like Israel’s 7 year siege of Gaza and the four massacres since 2008, there is a complete bias of the reporting of the mainstream international media and an outrageous paucity of international response to the Israeli killings and brutalities of the Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza.
VPM in solidarity with the youth led popular uprising in Palestine urges:
1 The Malaysian government though her offices in the Security Council of the UN, OIC and ASEAN to demand for a military embargo and sanction of Israel.
2 All Malaysian government linked companies (GLC) and corporations to divest from companies which are blatantly complicit in the ongoing oppression taking place at present. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions National Committee (BNC) has black-listed complicit international companies, such as G4S and HP, and Israeli companies, such as Elbit Systems, that participate in Israel’s infrastructure of oppression. See more at:http://www.bdsmovement.net/
3 All Malaysian NGOs and people of conscience to deplore the extra-judicial killings and brutalities of the innocent and support the humanitarian struggle of the Palestinian people in their quest for justice, freedom and equality.
#SolidarityWaveBDS
Dato’ Dr Musa Mohd Nordin
Chairman VPM
Project No:15/2015
Project Name:Rehabilitation of Al Ummah Musolla, Gaza.
Final report for project No:(40/2015) 2 The program includes workshops on New Media, Blogging, Current Political Issues, Media Discourse, Photography, and Competitions.
Project Name: Hashim Yeop Sani Media Summer School.
Targeted Area: Gaza Strip.
Targeted group: 60 young students.
Project budget: USD 3000
Project Description:To educate and train young people in Gaza (in English) to advocate for Palestine using alternative media outlets.
Schedule of events:
Movie Screenings Schedule on BOTH DAYS at BlackBox:
11 am : The Wanted 18
1 pm : Flying Paper
3 pm : Where Should The Birds Fly
5 pm : The Stones Cry Out
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES
SATURDAY, 10 Oct
Special appearance by MIZZ NINA after 4pm for charity selfie and autograph 4.00 - 4.30pm Dabka Dance by Palestinian group (tentative)
SUNDAY, 11 Oct
10.30am-11.30am Musical Performance by MUADZ DZULKIFLI & friends
11.30 – 12noon Dabka Dance by Palestinian group
10.30 am -12noon Special appearance by MIZZ NINA for charity selfie and autograph
On-going activities at WhiteBox:
10 am - 6 pm BOTH DAYS
- Photo Exhibition by Al-Quds Foundation of Malaysia
- Charity Bazaar
Palestinian Olive Oil | Palestinian Handmade Soaps | Palestinian Hand-embroidery Dresses, Pouches etc | Palestine-inspired Costume Jewelry & other items | Viva Palestina Malaysia's Merchandises - Scarves, Umbrellas, tshirts, Car Stickers, Pens etc I Madeena Boutique I Aidijuma Boutique
Books:
* The Prisoners' Diaries in English, Malay (@RM20) & Arabic (@RM25)
* Remember Us (@RM30)
* The General's Son by Miko Peled in English & Malay
* Gaza Writes Back in English & Malay
and others
Limited Copies:
* The Battle of Justice in Palestine (Autographed) (@RM60)
by Ali Abunimah
Food, desserts & other items by vendors.
Roger Waters strongly worded letter to Bon Jovi who performed in tel aviv on 3rd Oct, despite calls to boycott. He chose the side of oppression when he could've chosen justice.
Often in the past I have written detailed, and sometimes even persuasive, letters to colleagues in the music business, encouraging them not to give succor to the Israeli government’s apartheid policies by performing in Israel. Having read Jon’s comments last week in Yedioth Ahronoth, I won’t waste my time drawing parallels with Apartheid South Africa and the moral stand that so many artists took then and that thousands are taking now in the face of decades of Israeli oppression of Palestinians.
So the die is cast, you are determined to proceed with your gig in Tel Aviv on October 3. You are making your stand.
You stand shoulder to shoulder
With the settler who burned the baby
With the bulldozer driver who crushed Rachel Corrie
With the soldier who shot the soccer player’s feet to bits
With the sailor who shelled the boys on the beach
With the sniper who killed the kid in the green shirt
And the one who emptied his clip into the 13-year-old girl
And the Minister of Justice who called for genocide
You had a chance to stand
On the side of justice
With the pilot who refused to bomb refugee camps
With the teenager who chose eight prison terms over army service
With the prisoner who fasted for 266 days until freedom
With the doctor banned from entry for saving lives
With the farmer who was cut down marching to the wall
With the legless child growing up in the rubble
And the 550 others who won’t grow up at all
Because of the missiles and tank shells and bullets we sent
The dead can’t remind you of the crimes you’ve ignored. But, lest we forget, “To stand by silent and indifferent is the greatest crime of all.”
Roger Waters
Come listen and join his call for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) against Israel to end the seige of Gaza and the occupation of Palestine
BRIEF INTRODUCTION of DR MADS GILBERT
DR MADS GILBERT was born in 1947. He is a Norwegian physician and humanitarian activist. He is a specialist in anesthesiology and head of the emergency medicine department at the University Hospital of North Norway. He is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Tromsø.
Dr Gilbert has a broad range of experience in international humanitarian work. He has volunteered at a kibbutz (Israel), Angola, Myanmar, Cambodia, Lebanon etc. Since 1970s, he has been actively involved with helping the Palestinians. He has served as a doctor several times in Palestine for NORWAC (Norway Aids Committee)
His home city of Tromsø is the twin town of Gaza since 2001. Tromsø has sent more health workers to Palestine than any other in the world.
His 2009 book "Eyes in Gaza" on the Gaza War has been translated into several languages. Dr Gilbert has been lauded as a "hero" on social media for his work in Gaza.
Dr Gilbert was on emergency assignment for the Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC) with the surgeon Dr Erik Fosse to support the humanitarian effort at al-Shifa Hospital during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. During this period foreign journalists were barred from entering the Gaza Strip. As international media reported from outside the conflict zone, Dr Gilbert maintained frequent contacts with Norwegian media, CNN, BBC, ABC and Al Jazeera.
Dr Gilbert draws a clear distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. “I’m a strong anti-racist, there is not a milligram of anti-Semitism in me. But I oppose apartheid and colonialism.”
He adds "This is not a difficult conflict, it is an illegal occupation – it continues, it expands and it costs thousands of innocent Palestinian lives. These people have the right to defend themselves, the right to resist. The right to resist implies also the right to resist with arms, if you’re occupied.”
The number of people who turned up to listen to Dr Mads Gilbert was overwhelming. People were sitting on the floor and standing at the back and the sides of the hall. His talk was an eye opener to many and some were not quite prepared to see and hear what he had to reveal. As one of VPM committee member posted on her Facebook:
I saw men cry. When Dr Mads Gilbert played a video of a little boy screaming from his injuries I saw grown men cry. The injured, the scarred, the besieged people of Gaza were seen today. The dead were heard today. In a way that will haunt us for a long time. Maybe forever.
And yet he says, "Gaza is the cradle of humanity. It's where you should go if you wanna know what it's like to be human."
4th October 2015
