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DATE FOR YOUR DIARY - Sunday 9th March 2008 at 1pm - International Women's Day - CADFA women will celebrate together with a group of women from Palestine including Abu Dis - and we hope you will come and join us! Somers Town Community Centre, Ossulston St NW1 - Plans so far include food, dance, children's activities and speakers.

Women with their key role in the family do tremendous support work in Abu Dis. Women from Abu Dis have told us about their problems under Occupation and following the construction of the Wall. They have also stressed the fears of mothers whose sons were liable to be imprisoned, and the difficulties facing the mothers of child prisoners when they seek to visit them.

When CADFA first started, it was harder for women at both ends to stay in contact with each other than for men, as women in Abu Dis often have less access to computers. However, CADFA women funded the start of a women's internet cafe in Abu Dis and CADFA volunteers have helped with both English and computer classes. Visits in both directions have been useful, and there are now good links between CADFA women's links groups in Camden and the Dar Assadaqa women’s group in Abu Dis. Our "friendship quilt" sewn in Abu Dis and Camden became the CADFA banner (see picture below).

CADFA banner

We "adopted" Rawan Thawabteh, a woman prisoner from Abu Dis - We are pleased that she is now free but appalled that this is happening... No-one accused her of having actually done anything, but she was imprisoned in Israeli jails from the age of 16 for four years.

Current women’s links projects include:

We hope you will join us. Contact us for more information.