This program targets the feeling of helplessness among Palestinain youth in order to give a platform for them to be empowered and regain their confidence in themselves as they do in their own generation.
Youth can be the power of lobbying to address issues that range from local social services to national issues on poverty, unemployment, democracy, national concerns and even politics.
Training in the fields of civics, leadership Lobbying and advocacy, is a must and it definitely gives the tools needed for better influence and greater impact. It is educating the Palestinian youth in order to serve their national aspiration of independence and freedom.
In cooperation of the EJ YMCA Rehabilitation Program, the JAI conducted a full day central training for 32 Palestinian youth, males and females, in the ages between 14 and 21, from the areas of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jenin and Nablus, political ex-prosiners and detainees in the Israeli jails.
The training was on international law and main plans and project to divide Palestine, UN security council resolutions 225 and 1325.
It was proposed that further trainings to be conducted to empower those young people to be infulencial in their communities and get their voices to the decision makers.