A week program in Palestine, from the 12th to the 19th of May 2022, was arranged and hosted by the JAI for the Global class, with 32 students, and 7 teachers/leaders, from the Danish partner Dronninglund Efterskole (DE).
Their week including a visit to one of the olive trees planted fields in Wad Fukin village, which the school has collected sponsorship olive trees for last year, and the trees were planted this year in two fields in Beit Ummar village near Hebron and Wad Fukin village west of Bethlehem. They witnessed how the village is threatened with two surrounding Israeli colonies (settlements).
They also had ice-breaking games together with Palestinian JAI-trained students, spent time and had dinner with their families, and had a program at one of the Palestinian students schools, the Evangelical Lutheran School in Beit Sahour, from which a student had a week visit to the Danish school in December 2021. At the school, the Danish class toured around the school with the headmaster, met, chatted, exchange presentations, played sports with the whole 11th grade students.
Guided tours were also organized for the Danish class where the Israeli wall-settlements-bypass roads in Bethlehem were explained to them, toured also inside Dhaisha refugee camp, into Hebron old city, with the Israeli settlements and closures inside it, and Jerualem old city. They also had guided tours inside the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, Ibrahimi Mosque (Tombs of the Patriarchs) in Hebron, and a Palestinian Dabka Flore Dance was performed for them.
