Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom
Youth Club ("Nadi")"The NADI is the place where my most meaningful memories were created."
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A Youth Club (Nadi as-Shabibah - Moadon Noar) provides a framework, throughout the school year and during vacations, for a variety of stimulating, fun and challenging extracurricular activities for the young people of the community.
The Nadi is organized voluntarily by community members, run by a part-time salaried youth leader, and assisted by a growing number of parents and senior youngsters.
The objectives of the Nadi are to foster and sustain interpersonal connections; to encourage voluntary community involvement; to increase awareness on issues of Palestinian-Jewish relations and social justice; to promote values of mutual acceptance and respect; and to generate individual and social responsibility towards peers, the immediate community, other Palestinian and Jewish communities, and the larger society.
The village’s young people, on finishing the bi-lingual primary school, travel outside as they pursue their education and personal interests. The Youth Club provides the structure for them to stay together and continue to take part in the life of the community.
The Nadi Youth Leadership Program
Nadi Youth Leadership Program began to enable our youth to continue the dialogue of coexistence beyond the village and as an investment in the future of NSWAS through the young people who are growing up here. Its goal is to prepare the younger generation to assume leadership roles and become activists for social justice, both within the village and subsequently in the wider world.
Nadi Youth Leadership Program is the most important program at NSWAS and the only program supported by: all the village residents (if they have children in the program or not); the parents of the children who participate in the program; and the local/area council. Without developing leadership skills and commitment in our youth, their will be no one to continue the village with the principals and values which we all so deeply believe.
Activities of the Nadi Youth Leadership Program help our youth address include:
– how they can use the values they grew up with to contribute to the larger society,
– what life is like for Arabs and Jews outside of the village,
– what will happen when they leave the village and go to regional high schools,
– what will happen when some of them go on to the army and others not,
– and how they can support each other as a group as they move out into the world.
As well as giving our youth skills to deal with these issues, Nadi Youth Leadership Program helps them in spreading the ideas and values of the village as emissaries to the larger world. They learn to stand up to the pressures of a country that is becoming increasingly segregated, and contribute through volunteer projects and by initiating activities outside the village.
Nadi Youth Leadership Program is crucial because existing youth movements in the country do not prepare young people for bi-national, multicultural, cooperative living and learning in a way that meets the needs of all participants from both national groups. Standard youth movement experience does not address the unique experience our children have had, in a bi-lingual, multicultural environment; an environment where everyone strives for equal partnership and where diversity is celebrated.
It is important that our friends understand the significance of this program, as we prepare the village’s next generation. If you have any questions about the program, I’ll be more than happy to address them.
Articles
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An Interview with Nur Najjar-Elhuda
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Spring Holidays in the Village
11 May 2023Three holidays were celebrated in the village in April, including some special Ramadan performances
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After-school activities at the Nadi Youth Club
2 August 2021The Nadi Youth Club resumed its full complement of activities in April, including the weekly meetings, activities and programs
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Update on the Nadi Youth Club
13 November 2020November, 2020 : A quiet Spring; a successful summer, and a good prospect for the coming months.
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Weekly activities at the Nadi
1 December 2019Every Sunday Malak and Nai, with youth coordinator Lihi Levian Joffe organize the younger children for an artistic program
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Lihi Levian Joffe, head of WASNS Youth Activities
6 June 2019In early 2019, Lihi became the coordinator of the Nadi Youth Club
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Children of the Nadi perform a play for the village
27 August 2018In January 2018 the Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom Theater Group opened for the younger of the two groups in the Nadi Youth Club (grades 4-8). The theater group was directed by actress Yasmin Bar Shalom Agmon, who grew up in the village and is currently studying acting in the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio.
In the beginning of 2018, the Nadi became a unit of the village’s educational association, whereas previously it was part of the municipality. The theater group was among the first Nadi Youth (...) -
WAS-NS Kids in Artsbridge 3-Week Leadership Program
25 July 2016A group of young people from the village are taking part in a leadership training through arts program of the Artsbridge Instittute in Massachussetts.
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Anti-racism meeting at the Nadi
26 March 2015A group of students visit the youth club from Tsafit High School for a discussion on activism to raise awareness about racism
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Letter from the new director of the Nadi Youth Club
28 February 2015, by Nadine NashefNadine Nashef, 23, talks about herself and her intentions for the Nadi this year.
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Update from the Nadi
17 February 2015A new year of activity at the Nadi has begun, with a new director.
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Report from the Youth Club (Nadi)
1 February 2011, by Ariela Bairey Ben IshayAn activity report from the youth club
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End of the Year celebration at the Youth Club
21 June 2010, by Veronica SartoreOn Friday, 18th June, the Youth Club (the "Nadi") celebrated the end of another year of activities.
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Dialogue through Artistic Expression
19 July 2009, by Diana WebsterThis summer from July 19th to August 9th four of your very own youth will be going to Boston College in Massachuetts, USA for three weeks. Artsbridge Institute, a non-profit organization founded in 2007, will host its third summer camp for about 15 Israeli and 15 Palestinian teenagers (15 to 18 year olds) to come together for the first time through facilitated dialogue sessions and collaborative art projects. This is the second time youth from the village have participated in the summer (...)
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Youth Centre kids invite the adults for a discussion of the Gaza offensive
28 December 2008Instead of a planned holiday celebration, the youth club called in adults to discuss the latest round of violence that exploded in the closing days of 2008.
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A New Milestone: First Young Leadership Certificates Awarded
20 May 2008On April 17th, 2008, the Youth Club (the Nadi) presented certificates of completion to graduates of the Young Leadership Course who participated in the first-ever such training course given at the Nadi.
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An Evening on the Nakba in the Youth Club
19 May 2008On Thursday, May 15, 2008, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe), the Youth Club (Nadi as-Shabibah / Moadon Noar) hosted an evening of film and discussion.
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Make way for the youth club
10 January 2008Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam is quietly preparing a new generation of leaders from among the ranks of its young people.
