Journey for Justice brings together youth mainly from YMCAs and YWCAs all over the world to experience and share the life under occupation with Palestinian youth. For nine days, they join Palestinian youth and travel around occupied Palestine to witness the effects of Israeli occupation.

The challenging journey aims to witness and accompany Palestinian youth in their daily life.

Journey includes:

• Stories / experiences / dreams and daily life sharing.
• Devotions and reflections.
• Home stays with Palestinian host families.
• Passing through checkpoints and roadblocks together.
• Visiting their universities and realize Palestinian students' difficulties.
• Joining a local youth work camp, where youth come from all over Palestine.
  
  

It also includes:

• Witnessing the various EJ YMCA and YWCA of Palestine programs in action and during activities in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jericho, and Jerusalem.
  
  
• Meetings and discussions with Palestinians and Israelis: Political and religious leaders, Israeli right-based groups, grass root Palestinians including farmers, refugees, students...etc.
  
  
• Presentations and discussions with specialists on issues of: children, refugees, academics, media, international work...etc.
  
  
• Visiting various religious and historic sites including old cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, Church of Nativity, Holy Sepulcher, Al-Aqsa Mosque...etc.
  
  
• Advocacy activities and workshop, building coalitions of YMCA-YWCA committed youth leaders and set advocacy plans together.
  
  
  

Videos

 Watch promotion video.

Participants

• Participants ages should be between 17 and 25 (up to 30 could be allowed for special cases).
  
  
• No limited number of participants from one movement.
  
  
• Participants should represent / be delegated / coordinate their participation with their respective YMCA / YWCA movements.

Upcoming journey

Youth Journey for Justice - Palestine - 2013
10^th (arrival) - 18^th (departure) August 2013 - Deadline for application 15^th of July 2013. Register online now!

Past programs: reports, reflection and pictures

Jounrey for Justice 2012
7^th - 15^th, July

Journey for Justice 2011
23^rd - 31^st July

Journey for Justice 2010

23^rd July - 1^st August.

Journey for Justice 2009

23^rd July - 2^nd August

Journey for Justice 2008

23^rd – 31^st July, 2008

Journey for Justice - October 2007

14^th – 22^nd October, 2007.

Journey for Justice - Oct. - Nov. 2006

27^th October – 5^th November, 2006.

For Norwegian and Danish YMCA/YWCA youth leaders.

Journey for Justice - 2006

June 27^th - July 6^th, 2006, youth from around the world are participating.

Journey for Justice 2005

July 27^th - August 3^rd, 2005

Journey for Justice - 2004

October 2004, nearly 60 youth participated in the program, from Norway, Denmark, Panama, South Africa, United Kingdom and Palestine. You can view the activities, including interviews and articles by the participants.

Several of the participants from Denmark formed The Palestine Network of YMCA and YWCA in Denmark when they returned.