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Diary for 2007 - 08Events with Hadeel Products, and other eventsOCTOBER 24th MAP dinner at Holyrood 26th Fairlie Fair Trade event 27th 10-3.30 Queensferry Global Bazaarat , Queensferry Parich Church Centre 29th 7.30 Chryston Church Guild speak and stall
NOVEMBER 10th SMAP day 14th 7.30 Baptist Church Women’s Group, Livingston 14th 7.30 Salaam Bethlehem play at Cults P.C., Aberdeen 15th 7.30 “ “ Edinburgh, Greenbank P.C. 16th 7.30 “ “ Glasgow, Maxwell Mearns Castle Ch
16-18th Fri-Sun Conference of GLBT, UNISON at Crowne Plaza Hotel (near SECC) 15th 7.15 Blantyre P.C. Open meeting. 24th 11 – 4 Christmas Fair at Rudolf Steiner school, Edinburgh 28th Mass Lobby of Parliament 29th WSPF AGM 30th Palestine (Fair) Trade Fair, London
DECEMBER
1st & 2nd Fair Trade Fair in London, Methodist Central Halls, Westminster 7th Fairlie Christmas Fair - 8th 10-1 Marchmont St. Giles P.C. Christmas Fair 10th 7.30 St. Ninian’s Craigmailen, Linlithgow, Guild. Slides, stall for sale 24th 4.00 Close of business for 2007. Diary for 2007 - 08 JANUARY 3th Hadeel reopens for trade
FEBRUARY
4th 7.15 Charlmers Mem. Church, P. Seton 5th 7.30 Abbey Church, N. Berwick NEXUS/Christian Resources Exhibition, Glasgow 23-25 August 2007 Rediscovering Palestine is a coalition of organisations that are working in a variety of ways for justice and peace in Israel and Palestine. Hadeel's display of handcrafts helps to attract visitors who valued our presence and the resources available from Amos Trust, BibleLands, Christian Aid, Church of Scotland, Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, Friends of Sabeel, Friends of Spafford Children's Centre, Scottish Friends of Palestine, Scottish Medical Aid to Palestinians, and Palcrafts/Hadeel.
A plea from Palestine: How will we respond?19th June 2007Nancy Adams, Hadeel/Palcrafts council member and Peace and Justice activist speaking as part of Edinburgh World Justice Festival This 40 minute presentation arises out of the question put to the many Palestinians in Israel/Palestine Nancy met during her 9-week course in Jerusalem on “The Roles of Women in Promoting Peace and Reconciliation” : “What Can WE do in Scotland to bear witness to the injustices here and promote peace with justice?” “Tell them our stories… tell them the truth of what you have seen…tell them of our daily struggle… tell them of our refusal to be neglected… tell them not to forget us!” She recounted some of the narratives she heard, and highlight ways in which people in Scotland can respond to the pleas to resist the injustices inherent in the struggle in Israel/Palestine.
Audience at the very well attended presentation given by Nancy Adams following the AGM on 19th June 2007: "A plea from Palestine - How will we respond? left is Liz Cairns the new Chairperson of Palcrafts.
Palcrafts/Hadeel Annual General Meeting 19th
June 2007.
From left: Nancy Adams (guest speaker), Lady
Marion Fraser (retiring Chair), Colin Morton (Secretary).
Visitors to Hadeel
From left: Dr Runa Mackay (Medical Aid for
Palestinians), Sa'ed J. Abu-Hijleh, Wassim Abu Aglain (Scottish
Palestinian Society). Sa'ed Abu-Hijleh is a poet from Nablus who was
attending a poetry reading in Edinburgh. Whilst in the shop he wrote and
impromptu poem dedicated to Hadeel.
25th April 2007
FAIR TRADE FAIR 2006
Westminster Central Hall, London
Samira Hassassian (left in photo), promoter of Palestinian Fair Trade and wife of the Palestinian General Delegate, visits the stall with Sara Juneidi.
Peter on the stall Visit of Palestinian General Delegate The new Palestinian General Delegate to the United Kingdom, Professor Manuel Hassassian, visited Hadeel on June 7
2006 when he was in Edinburgh to speak at a meeting of the Parliamentary Cross Party Group on Palestine. MSP for the area, Sarah Boyack, invited him to visit the shop. She is a strong advocate of Fair Trade generally and Palestinian fairly traded goods specifically.
PALESTINIAN OLIVE OIL FARMERS IN EDINBURGH
AL ZAYTOUNA – THE PALESTINIAN OLIVE TREE ASSOCIATION 3 September 2005
L to R Taysir Arbasi, Atif Choudhury, Jihad Abdo and Anita Shanley translating
Not many people in the UK know that while about 75% of Palestinians now live in poverty, over half of the country’s olive harvest goes unsold and spoils causing a huge financial loss. This is largely due to the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation of the land. more...
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Lilian and customer
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