Achievements
During the bike ride in 2008, the Follow The Women bikers visited the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho. This is one of the oldest camps in the West Bank, and in 1948 around 70,000 people lived there. Today there are 7,000 people residing in the camp and a huge number of these are children.
Following the success of the playgrounds that Follow The Women has established in Jericho and Al Ram in the West Bank, we continued our fundraising efforts and have been able to commission two more playgrounds.
Organised by our Danish FTW team and financially supported by FTW International, our latest FTW playground is near Jerusalem. Yatta is surrounded by 11 settlements and often the settlers are come down to a nice place with a roman pool.
Following the success of the playground project in Aqbat Jabr in Jericho,
Follow The Women have now completed the next one!
In September 2014, Follow The Women International sponsored a new playground project in Jenin in Palestine, joining forces with Follow The Women Denmark and The Danish House in Palestine to make this happen. Follow The Women Denmark, with additional support from the Islamic community, raised money selling food, held garage sales and collected personal donations from Nørrebro in Copenhagen.
One of the first initiatives supported by Follow the Women was a counselling project in Ramallah in partnership with the PYU.