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.
On Friday the 27th of January 2017, the JAI organized a training for 11 girls and 10 boys, from the Bethlehem area, through the YMCA Community Center in Beit Sahour.
The training was on Campaigning on the social level, and initiative youth could do on the local and national levels including the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) Campaign, drugs, children and women rights, teachers rights.
So, initiatives were planned, and the JAI and YMCA Community Center are to follow up with the youth.