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Volunteer
A volunteer accompanier serves for three months in a West Bank city or a small village sharing the in the day to day lives of Palestinian people, or supporting Israelis in nonviolent action for peace. Maybe EAPPI is right for someone you know. Find out more about how to apply.
Contribute
While EAPPI-US receives support from several national church bodies, the project needs and accepts contributions from congregations, individuals and groups. Your gift to EAPPI-US can help support the effort to recruit and train volunteer accompaniers or provide them with scholarship funding.
To give to EAPPI-US, send a check to:
Church World Service MRW Program
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 700
New York, New York 10115
Pray
Join an ecumenical prayer vigil for the Christian communities in Jerusalem, for all those who are suffering in the Holy Land, for Palestinians and Israelis, and for peace in the Middle East and the world.
Your congregation or group can join others taking part in the Ecumenical Prayer Vigil and get connected with others in your area participating in the vigil.
News & Resources...
What happens when the media leaves?
Things had come close to a confrontation between the settlers from Miskiyot, who had pitched their tent so close to Ein il Hilwe and the Palestinian supporters of this tiny Bedouin community. We wondered what would happen after everyone left.
The day after the settlers invaded, back in May, the Israeli army returned with papers ordering both the settlers and the Palestinians to move their adjacent tents. They complied with this - the Palestinians because they did not want any more trouble. Their biggest struggle was to survive without an adequate water supply.
More hopeful news came from Jordan Valley Solidarity volunteers, who were there to explain their plan to connect the community to a Palestinian water supply using surface rubber piping. They then took us to a neighbouring community where they have just finished such a scheme and a small chicken farmer is now paying a twentieth of the previous price for his water supply. Unbelievably, in this community the Israeli army had caged a working water pump so that the Palestinians could not access water from it.
The Jordan Solidarity group are committed to working with the grass roots communites to both identify the problems and find small scale solutions. They are setting up two guesthouses, one in Tubas and one in Jiftlik to encourage the on going involvement of volunteers in supporting these vulnerable communities.... READ MORE
Accompaniers will visit you
Many of the 27 returned ecumenical accompaniers are available to teach and preach in churches or speak at events. Invite them to share their experiences and speak about peacemaking in Israel and Palestine. Please click here for a list of accompaniers and their direct contact information.
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