Coffee morning supports Palestine village

The fundraising event will also display handicraft products at Newbury Town Hall this morning (Saturday)

THE FRIENDS of Wadi Fuqeen are holding a coffee morning and small exhibition of Palestinian handicraft in Newbury Town Hall this morning (Saturday).

Lillian El-doufani, a spokeswoman for the organisation, said embroidery and other products would be exhibited and that the coffee morning would hopefully raise funds for the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen.

“Wadi Fuqeen is a village eight miles from Bethlehem, and it is possible to identify whereabouts in Palestinian people are from who wear the embroidered fabrics, which will be on display at the coffee morning and are an important source of sustainable income,” she said.

According to their website, The Friends of Wadi Fuqeen campaign for a peaceful and just future for the people of Wadi Fuqeen, a Palestinian village whose survival is threatened by illegal Zionist settlers on one side and the proposed path of Israel's Apartheid Wall on the other.

The group's four main objectives are: raising awareness of what is happening in the village; holding the village up as an icon of what is happening to villages all over Palestine; fundraising to help with more specific projects in the village; and widening networks so that more people become involved.

So far, the Friends of Wadi Fuqeen have helped fund nursery school furniture and equipment, toys for the younger children of the village and summer school activities for teenagers.

The coffee morning will take place in the town hall council chamber from 10am until 12pm. All are welcome.

For more information about the organisation The Friends of Wadi Fuqeen, visit wadifuqeenfriends.com