WRAP is pleased to announce a new campaign recently launched to create a safe learning garden for the students at the Battir Girls School in the West Bank.  The campaign aims to raise the funds to secure and green the courtyard that surrounds the rainwater cistern WRAP installed last year in order to make it a safe and inviting space for the students of Battir.

For more details about the campaign and to make a contribution, please click the image at left or visit http://igg.me/at/safe-garden-battir/x/6089968.

WRAP’s Executive Director, Brendan McGinnis, recently authored a post for the blog Conserve Fewell, a forum for sharing ideas and developments on protecting the natural environment.  To read the post, titled “Peace Building in the Middle East – Let’s Begin with Water”, visit http://conservefewell.org/?p=4207.

WRAP has concluded a successful year of installing, maintaining, and planning rainwater harvesting and environmental education projects in the Middle East.  WRAP’s Year In Review provides all the latest updates on current and future projects from the group’s most recent trip to the Middle East as well as on–the–ground videos and picture slideshows, new resources, and highlights of major events and efforts by WRAP from the past year.

See all the exciting updates by visiting https://www.wrapdc.org/newsletter/index.html 

The Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian Directors of the Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), one of WRAP’s partnering organizations, have authored an editorial piece on the role of water issues in the Middle East peace process focused particularly on the proposed conduit from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea.

To read the full article, visit http://ow.ly/rQMEq.

The American University School of International Service’s Water Cooperation & Peace Practicum has published their final report, titled Water, Cooperation, and Peace.  The practicum and resulting report evaluate the peacebuilding significance of cooperative Palestinian-Israeli water projects.  WRAP was among the organizations providing support to the practicum, which consisted of a group of eight M.A. candidates, led by two AU Professors, working to research, collect data, and conduct field studies at project sites within Israel and the Palestinian West Bank.

To view the full report, click here.

WRAP releases study on rainfall trends in Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, identifying the importance of water conservation and use of simple, low-cost technologies for easing demand by way of rainwater harvesting systems.

WRAP Rainfall Trends Study

Congrats to Amir, constructor of WRAP’s rainwater harvesting systems, for expanding his worthwhile efforts into Africa!

Learn more, http://ow.ly/r5ZUP

YOU ARE INVITED TO AN INTERNATIONAL CONCERT: AMPLIFIED VOICES: A CONNECTIONS CONCERT

Join WRAP on November 10 at Georgetown University at 3:00 pm.  The cross-continental benefit concert will support peace-building efforts in Israel and Palestine and feature Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, Heartbeat: The Israeli-Palestinian Youth Music Project, Farah Siraj, Bethany & Rufus, and Humayun Khan with LIVE connections to the Middle East with David Broza and many more!

Hope you will join us at the event and the post-concert fellowship with food, the musicians, and WRAP!

For additional information and tickets, click on the following links —

Tickets, Pre-Merchandise, and More Information 

Promotional Video

Invite Others Facebook Event Page

Can’t Attend-Learn How You Can Help Live Stream the Event

WRAP is honored to be part of this year’s Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNCA).  Through the campaign federal employees can donate to WRAP using our code: 88958.

Every penny of every dollar we receive goes directly to our projects.  These projects impact hundreds of school children in the Middle East, help to conserve water, and educate students and communities on water and environmental stewardship.

In addition to providing schools with much needed water, our next project will focus on building communication between Israeli and Arab students through a shared experience with water conservation.  Learn more about this effort here.

 The campaign will run until January 15th, 2014.

Federal employees can donate by visiting http://my.cfcnca.org/ and using WRAP’s code: 88958

Learn more about the Combined Federal Campaign here.

WRAP is thrilled to be presenting on September 4, 2013 at the Rotary Club of Washington, DC!

To learn more, visit http://bit.ly/12LWVYW