Many views were passing in front of their eyes, and they pursuing closely the lives of children in the Gaza Strip, practices dictate occupation against the Palestinian public and private child was increase the suffering of the community and make it more fearful, tense, anxious, and violent. What I've Ohahin imposed harsher political conditions, social, cultural, and economic suffered by children in the Gaza Strip in general and especially the marginalized south.

Be the five women entrepreneurs in the community, took part together in worry and dream, had considered together in interventions to protect children from danger, Fajlsn an idea doomed to establish a safe house combines children in an educational context of developmental help them and protect them from the unit and the harshness of social conditions, economic, and political. Votmr of thinking about the founding of the Culture and Free Thought Association, which now includes five basic development programs constitute the backbone of the organization, (information, research and capacity building program, the child program, the women's empowerment program, community integration and youth program, the advocacy program and pressure) and works in order to achieve the stated goals in this programs culture and thought Association centers of:

Sunrise Center and hope.
Women's Health Center.
Builders of tomorrow's center.
Palestinian Child Culture Center.
Nawar Educational Center.
Strip lending program gynecologist.
information Office .
Project Coalition Wesal.

Vision:

Aspiring Culture and Free Thought Association to be a leading organization in the contribution of civil society is working to build a Palestinian society in which every Palestinian citizen enjoys freedom, equality and human rights

the letter:

Culture and Free Thought Association, a Palestinian civil Foundation, a non-profit, independent aims to develop based on the promotion of children, boys and young men and women, the rights of civil society, through information and applied research programs, and the development of the child, and the empowerment of women, and the integration of community for young people, advocacy and communication.

Values:

It believes the Culture and Free Thought Association is committed while working with various sectors in the community to achieve its vision and mission by focusing on the following values:

Strengthen the Palestinian cultural identity.

Promotion of human rights principles, which include justice, equality, accountability and the rule of law, transparency, tolerance, respect, non-discrimination, participation and empowerment of vulnerable groups and to give special attention to go mainstream gender.

Promote environmental protection .

General goals:

Contribute to the improvement of professional skills and knowledge of the Culture and Free Thought Association in order to improve the quality of services provided to children and boys and young men and women.

Contribute to the development and enhance the capabilities and talents of children and boys through the provision of educational, cultural, social and psychological support to them in a sensitive and safe environment and ensure the participation of the parents.

Contributing to the empowerment of women and promote their rights by providing them with health care, legal, psychological, social and economic assistance.

Contribute to the promotion of youth development and youth initiatives, improve and promote community integration.

Contribute to raising community awareness about the issues and the needs and rights of children, boys and young men and women

Professional services organization and interventions:

The first program information, research and capacity building program

The program aims to develop the Information Society Culture and Free Thought management system; and improve decision-making based on special knowledge of the target through applied research Communion as well as building staff positions capabilities groups operation in order to provide quality services for children and boys and young men and women. This program is based on the following in order to achieve the highest level of professional development interventions.

Applied Research participatory

Survey research

Training

Posts domestic and international

Technological development

The second program: the child development program

And who cares about the development of creative skills, mental health, leadership abilities, and values ​​education marginalized and boys for children aged (6-16) years in the Sunrise Center and hope for the Khan Younis refugee camp, the center Nawar education in Khan Younis - Bayouk area, the center of the builders of tomorrow in a camp Khan Younes. This program relies on the following in order to achieve the stated goals of professional interventions.

Full awareness of the child labor and the rights of pressure and advocacy campaigns for the rights of stimulating some Imperfect

Psychological and social support for children and boys / T, through educational workshops, individual meetings, trips, recreational activities. Drama.

The development of children, boys capabilities / T through training workshops, training courses, in various educational fields such as computer, art, theater, folk art, laboratory science, reading, activities, office, educational and instruction aimed at games, this and that includes the application of these activities, values ​​and practices such as driving a major falling part and approach to the work of the institution.

Educational support for children and boys / T, comes this intervention in the form of interactive learning workshops active with children, and education via the Internet and interactive, home and school visits. This intervention focuses directly on the link between play and learn at the same time.

Promote cultural and community activation for children and boys / t where the focus of this intervention to activate the children and boys / T by involving them in a building in the Libyan activities such as heritage and sports festivals, summer camps and educational trips and childhood Christmas.

The third program: a program to empower women

And which aims to improve the health, psychological, social and legal status of women marginalized in the central area of ​​the Gaza Strip; and improve the economic well-being of the marginalized women who live in the most marginalized areas in the Gaza Strip.

Where to intervene in this program come through the Women's Health Center, which operates through the following activities:

Medical clinic

natural therapy

Sports

Psychological and social support

Legal and social support

Health education and awareness.

Also through Gaza lending program Women, which serves Palestinian women to work to develop themselves and improve their incomes, leading to the creation of women Raadiat and active participants in the Palestinian society, their prominent role in participating in advancing economic and social development through the provision of individual loans for the development of small enterprises list or begin to establish new projects.

Fourth program: community integration program for young people

This program focuses on strengthening the effectiveness of the participation of young creators in the expression of the community's issues, revitalization of the cultural movement of community, through the Palestinian Cultural Center, which focuses on the quality of the following interventions:

Implementation of youth initiatives in the cultural field, artistic, literary

Art workshops

The stage

Music

Creative Literary Forum

Ramadan and university competitions

Fine and photographic exhibitions.

Educational programs and various training

Fifth program: Pressure and Advocacy Program

It focuses on the development and improvement of information and communication within the Culture and Free Thought Association and abroad; to strengthen the coalition Wesal to protect women on the basis of UN resolutions; and the development of advocacy and lobbying for the rights of children and young people in the Gaza Strip. Where common to all centers in the Assembly to work on this program through:

Lobbying and advocacy in the coalition Wesal campaigns.

Awareness workshops.

Global events mass celebrations.

Lobbying and advocacy for children's issues and youth through various artistic media.