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Women Can — And Have!
The vision for Women Can began in 2019 when our staff in Palestine saw a unique opportunity to support and mentor women with entrepreneurial vision. The project began in the West Bank and expanded to Gaza in its third year and has supported women in Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Salfit, Jenin, Tulkarem, and central Gaza. The…
Women Can Do Anything! Empowering Women in Palestine
Here are some success stories from our women’s empowerment program named Women Can.
About Anera’s Women Can Program
COMMUNITY About Anera’s Women Can Program Economic empowerment for women in Palestine Background One of the most vulnerable groups in Palestine is women-headed families, who make up 12% of households in the West Bank and 11% of households in Gaza. As too often happens in conflict zones, the death, separation from, or imprisonment of male…
Women Can Helps Kawthar Become the Palestinian Social Butterfly
COMMUNITY Women Can Helps Kawthar Become the Palestinian Social Butterfly “I said goodbye to the shy, lonely Kawthar.” For as long as she could remember, Kawthar wanted to break out of her shell of shyness. When she was young and single, she depended a great deal on her parents. And when she got married, she…
Women Can Helps Hairdresser Expand Her Business in Gaza
COMMUNITY Women Can Helps Hairdresser Expand Her Business in Gaza “Strong and happy.” This is how Alaa Nofal describes her feelings as she welcomes women clients in her newly opened beauty salon located in Deir Al-Balah Refugee Camp in central Gaza. After years of working from her home, Alaa, 33, finally managed to open her…
Women Can Launches in Gaza
November 9, 2021 | Gaza City — With generous funding from Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), Anera has just launched its Women Can women’s empowerment program in Gaza. Participants in the program will begin participating in the initial training sessions later this month. The program is currently identifying 30 women in the middle area of Gaza…
Palestinian Women Can Make a Future for Themselves and Their Families
COMMUNITY Palestinian Women Can Make a Future for Themselves and Their Families With Anera’s support, West Bank women are able to build a business and a future for their families Hajer lives near Salfit, in the Palestinian West Bank. The mother of seven helped her husband build a shed to raise chickens to support the…
Women Can: Meet Manal, a Nabulsi Event Photographer
COMMUNITY Women Can: Meet Manal, a Nabulsi Event Photographer Taking her profession from analog to digital Manal is a passionate wedding photographer from the city of Nablus, in Palestine’s West Bank. She thinks of her profession as a way to bring joy to her clients and their families. “If people are interested, I won’t decline…
Anera’s Women Can Program Helps Palestinian Baker Expand Her Business in Palestine
Meet Khyria, a baker from Qabalan, Palestine, locally famous for her giant bread loaves. “The only thing I know for sure is baking,” says Khyria. “To my neighbors, my bread is famous,” she says with evident pride. She mixes white and black wheat to make her own special flour mix. Sometimes she also bakes cookies…
Women Can! Palestinian Women are Becoming Entrepreneurs in Palestine
COMMUNITY Women Can! Palestinian Women are Becoming Entrepreneurs in Palestine Anera recently had an opportunity to talk with five participants in our Women Can project in the West Bank, funded by IRUSA. The program is in its initial phase. We will continue to follow these women and their efforts through the course of the project….