In January, a group of Bedouin women from the Israeli NGO Be’Atzmi (On My Own) visited the project to gain exposure to the importance of women in community development.
The Be’Atzmi program “assists thousands of unemployed and underprivileged men and women every year to integrate, on their own, into stable and appropriate workforce opportunities.” The women’s group met Ali Alhawashla and Safia Morgan, of the project’s Medicinal Plants Initiative and Indigenous Vegetable Initiative, respectively, to learn more about their ancestral connection to herbal remedies and desert agriculture.
The following month, 25 managers from the Eshet Chayil program at Be-Atzmi, which strives to promote workforce integration among underprivileged women in Israel, visited the project in order to provide a meaningful farewell ceremony for one of their own. 