IRD Activities

• Sharing Perspective Student Exchange

  Sharing Perspectives is aimed to stimulate direct interaction and cooperation between students from the Netherlands and Palestine. This interaction is facilitated through an online platform on which students will exchange video messages based on a question and answer format. In the end of the course a physical exchange will take place in which students will visit each other for a period of ten days in which the previous discussed topics will be discussed in more depth. This program is organized in cooperation between Concept square organization in the Netherlands and Volunteering for Peace organization in Palestine

• Visit Hebron

  The service is provided by Volunteering for Peace's team of tour guides and specialists in providing geo-political tours to the city of Hebron, old city of Hebron, the Russian Orthodox church, Abraham Oak, environmental trips, hiking trips to the mountains, visit to the cave dwellers, visits to the desert near the dead sea, visits to Bedouin families and more. Tours provide a critical look at the history, culture and politics of Palestine and the unique situation in Hebron due to the presence of the illegal Israeli settlements in the center of the city. The interfaith encounters include meetings with Muslim, Christian and Jewish people.

Main Focus Countries of Activities

State of Palestine - Netherlands - Hebron, State of Palestine