The Olive Picking Program is organized each fall for 10 days, in coordination with the Alternative Tourism Group (ATG).
This Olive Picking Program aims to provide assistance and a protective civil international presence for Palestinian families to help them overcome the restrictions imposed by the Israeli military occupation and settlers during the olive harvest season.
In addition to their picking activities the participants developed a social, cultural, political, historic and religious understanding of the region, witnessed life under occupation, and shared advocacy ideas and tools.
25 Palestinian youth, from the YWCA of Jerusalem, help family pick olives at their threatened field in Cremisan Monastery area - Friday 23 October 2015.