Sunday, 20 May 2012
The Administrative, executive and voluntary staff would like to thank donors and partners for their financial and moral support and their contribution in developing the efforts in different location in the Palestinian Rural Areas. Also directing the support to advocate the rural women, who are considered to be the most marginalized and isolated from the public life and decision making positions.
Rural Women’s Development Society (RWDS) is defined as a women’s non governmental organization works in rural areas in the Palestinian territories aiming at empowering rural women and officially registered in the ministry of interior under the number RA-287-C . RWDS believes in gender equality in all life aspects. Moreover, RWDS calls for and demands the application of international conventions concerning human rights and peoples right in self determination according to UN resolutions. The massage of RWDS is “We will work on organizing, supporting and empowering rural women in women’s clubs which are committed to the principles of equality, equity and civil society values which achieve the vision of RWDS in improving women social, political and economical situation”.
Based on this message, RWDS works widely all over the West Bank and Gaza strip, where it targets a big number of women since the year 1987, when it has been a unit in PARC, passing by the year 2001 when it was officially registered as an independent body, till now, RWDS has established 65 women’s clubs including more than 4300 members and beneficiaries and the number is still increasing. What RWDS has achieved was not a result of a normal work, but it is an accumulation of the efforts or the society’s staff and establishers along years of patience and persistence.
