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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
