Each year HCI makes it a point to honor and celebrate the traditions of the communities we serve such as the celebration of Ramadan, Eid Al Adha and Christmas.
Seasonal Projects
Over a hundred Iraqi and non-Iraqi children, Christian and Muslim, from disadvantaged backgrounds were brought together by HCI in Jordan for a gift distribution party on Christmas day. Similar to HCI’s activities during Eid El-Adha and the Holy month of Ramadan, this activity encouraged these children coming from very different environments to share an exceptional [...]
Honoring and Celebrating Community Traditions: Ramadan and Adahi 2011
Egypt, Featured Stories from the Field, Gaza Strip, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Regional, Seasonal Projects, Sudan, West Bank
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Nov 212011
Each year HCI makes it a point to honor and celebrate the traditions of the communities we serve; understanding the culture and living conditions of the local communities we work with is part of HCI’s philosophy while serving these communities, especially at times such as Ramadan and Eid Al Adha when great importance is placed [...]
HCI Helps Provide a Proper Eid Feast
Adahi, Egypt, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Dec 162009
Understanding the culture and living conditions of the local communities we work with is part of HCI’s philosophy while serving these communities, especially at times such as Eid when great importance is placed on reviving and enjoying the traditional aspects of local culture. In addition, these traditions serve to strengthen community ties and embody important [...]
Sowing Hope, Harvesting Opportunity: Gaza in the Holy Month of Ramadan
Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Seasonal Projects
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Oct 142009
Every Palestinian woman and family have a story to tell, many of these stories reflect the profound sadness of Gaza’s own story; stories about the healing of wounds, about deprivation, about women struggling to support families and most of all about keeping hope alive. HCI is acutely aware of this nations suffering and follows the [...]
Ramadan 2009: HCI's Experiences around the Arab World
Egypt, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan, West Bank
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Oct 072009
For the Muslim world, the month of Ramadan is traditionally a time for inner reflection, devotion to God, self control, and fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also a particularly joyous time when relatives and friends invite each other over to gather around a table and break the fast together-Iftar-and above all a time [...]
Video: HCI Helps Provide a Proper Eid Feast
Adahi, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan, West Bank
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Dec 172008
The second and the third day of Eid Al-Adha dawned windy–one of the most important events in the Muslim calendar both religiously and socially — rainy and cold, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of HCI team in Middle East, assisted by volunteers and local partners, determined to see that the poorest of the poor [...]
War, Occupation, Catastrophe, Poverty, Illness
Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Nov 032008
There are five people sitting in the same dirt-yard. The first is an old man; he is a vegetable peddler. He is aged, and the limbs of his body seem to rage against each other. There is no coordination in his movements, he is ragged, one of his eyes has been put out and the [...]
Honoring Ramadan Traditions in Sudan, Extending Help to the Poor
Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Oct 082008
The Holy Month of Ramadan is a time for inner reflection by Muslims, devotion to God, self control, and fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also a particularly joyous time when relatives and friends invite each other over to gather around a table and break the fast together–Iftar–and above all a time of giving [...]
