Job Creation

With so many wide ranging projects throughout the Middle East, ANERA is effectively creating jobs for workers across a variety of sectors – construction, civic planning, health, education, tourism, culinary arts, and more.

The goal of our Job Opportunities through Basic Services (JOBS), a USAID-funded program, is to advance the quality of life of Palestinians in underserved areas through the implementation of labor-intensive infrastructural, cultural and community improvement projects. The JOBS program is creating as many as 14,000 short- and long-term job opportunities in Jericho and the Jordan Valley.

Additionally, in 2007, ANERA:

• promoted cottage inns and rural tourism in Lebanon
  
  
• supported Atfaluna Society for the Deaf in Gaza in their efforts to stimulate work and provide training, social services and counseling for women
  
  
• purchased raw materials for the Bethlehem Workshop for the Blind
  
  
• expanded work opportunities for Palestinian women at Ina'sh Al Usra in the West Bank

 

We have also focused on professional development through the completion of four IT Centers of Excellence to give adults the tools they need for expanding their professional capacity in information technology.