 Mission/Vision
Shaml is an independent non-governmental organization dedicated to the research of issues related to Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian Diaspora. It was established in 1994 by a group of concerned academics and human rights activists who felt the need to examine issues pertaining to Palestinian refugees from a comparative perspective encompassing relevant experiences in other parts of the world. Shaml is also a resource center on Palestinian refugee issues.
What does the organization do?
•Raise public awareness, regionally and globally, about the conditions of Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian Diaspora, their basic rights and the problems and difficulties they face.
•Conduct primary research on refugee issues in Palestine and elsewhere, including comparative research in the sociology of migration.
•Help formulate and develop coherent long-term policy for Palestinian refugees, in the context of promoting a greater understanding of their needs.
•Strengthen links between Palestinian communities in the Diaspora and their homeland.
Opportunities for Youth
Institution-building for the Jalazone Youth Social Centre and the Nuseirat Shohada Link-up. Previously trained in informal creative and artistic activities, youth will work as translators, trainers, and text-translators for the photography exhibition. Actively involving the youth directly in the project will ensure their empowerment as individuals as well as the sustainability of the project, thus extending its productive life beyond its own time-span. The partner organizations in the camp will each keep one digital camera, one scanner and ten cassette recorders, so they will be able to keep the oral history collecting going indefinitely after Shaml’s completion and withdrawal. The oral history manual will enable them to continue training more oral history gatherers using the participants from this project, thus extending the long-term benefits considerably. There will be an additional ten disposable cameras available to children of the camp, so that the camp may be captured and presented through their eyes. Their perspective is a unique and valuable source of understanding of the experiential reality of their daily lives.
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