When tourists and pilgrims come to visit Bethlehem of Judea, that eight-meter-high separation wall seems lower.
For a moment it seems to be able to go back to living a normal life made up of meetings, life exchanges, a breath of fresh air for the women and men of the city of Christmas. Today, as was the case during the Covid-19 pandemic, Bethlehem is once again isolated. With her are all the cities of the West Bank, which today find themselves once again having to deal with a very serious economic crisis, which has already been underway for several years, and with a social crisis due to isolation and continuous violence.
With a further aggravating circumstance: those who had used their savings to cope with the Covid emergency, today have nothing. Everyone in Bethlehem suffers from this situation, but among them those who suffer the most are children and those who already live in isolation due to physical or mental disabilities.
Our Interventions in the War
In the context of the new emergency context that local populations are facing, we are strengthening some of the activities that characterize our intervention, such as trauma protection and treatment programs, and launching new ones, such as the "cash for volunteering" system to support families in difficulty in Bethlehem.
Click on the map below to discover all the initiatives we intend to carry out to continue hoping for a future in which dialogue and coexistence are still possible!
