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If This Succeeds, We All Succeed
From: Hope is a Woman's Name
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In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the 2006 effort by a Bedouin activist and the AJEEC organization to build a community-run kitchen in Hura, a Negev town, so that single mothers could prepare traditional meals for local schoolchildren.
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Amal Elsana Alh'jooj
Amal Elsana Alh'jooj is a founder of several NGOs, including the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Economic Empowerment and Cooperation, and the recipient of many international prizes. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), she was included in Genius 100 Visionaries of the Future (2017); and awarded the New Israel Fund's Human Rights Award (2013). Amal has a PhD in Social Work from McGill University and a post-doctorate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy in the Women Public Policy program. She is currently a professor at McGill School of Social Work, and is the founder and executive director of the Canadian non-profit organization PLEDJ (Promoting Leadership, Empowerment, Development and Justice).
