Roles for Social Change Association-ADWAR held the third conversational session to question decision makers in partnership with Al-Dahriya women’s association in Al-Dahriya rural collective and agriculture committees union.

Participants in this session included Al-Dahriya women’s association, a special group of women from the rural collective, the project’s coordinator of ADWAR Association Duaa’ Al Jamal, and the engineer Duaa’ Zayed from Agriculture Committees Union.

Women talked about their needs, most important of which was to provide a source of economic support to enable them set up specific projects and work to meet their needs. Zayed pointed out that there should be real development projects with a clear impact on the ground such as sewing and other projects that enable women economically and make them able to depend on themselves and become economically independent especially in light of high cost of living. There must be an integration of all parties in order to achieve such goal and empowering Palestinian women and making them able to make decisions. Zayed promised to put them on her priorities list and to work hard on meeting their needs.

At the end of this session, ladies expressed their appreciation of ADWAR Association for holding such purposeful dialogue session, and asked for more workshops and training courses to empower women, as well as calling for their existence, especially in such neglected and marginalized areas.