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Where There’s a Will

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In Gaza, a high proportion of people are in wheelchairs, because IDF soldiers are trained to aim for the ninth vertebrae or above to avoid casualties. Through the Irada (“Will”) Project at the Islamic University, I had the chance to witness how some of those paralyzed young men and women are continuing to live with creative courage.

Irada gives them free training in how to make handicrafts and furniture, bind books, and crosshatch Palestinian designs on clothes and purses. It also makes a point of producing high-quality handicrafts and selling them at affordable prices.

It’s a really beautiful project because it teaches these young people how to work with their disabilities, and gives them a whole new outlook on life. They go from feeling useless to feeling productive and capable of doing something special with their gifts.

For more information – Irada Project

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Sami Haven

Sami Haven was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1987. His mother is originally from Yabroud, Syria, and his father is English born in the Caribbean. He grew up in his grandmother's house in Jabal al-wehbdeh, in the heart of Amman. In 2003 Sami moved to Al-Saru, on the outskirts of Amman, where he studied graphic design at Al Ahliyya University, graduating with the highest grades of his class. In 2005 he moved to Rome, Italy, where he did his masters in Photography. Sami worked with the world's most famous photographers like Steven Klein and Oliviero Toscani, along with many others. His works have been included in the Biennale of Venice directed by Kazuyo Sejima, Paris-Photo, and also in Tokio. After working in various editions of X-FACTOR Italia - making video clips for the contestants - in theatre with Fendi, and in the high fashion industry, Sami felt there was something missing, and so he decided to go to Gaza, Palestine, because it is an example of resistance and humanity, and to try and contrast the image constructed by the Western media that serves only the powerful. Today Sami is co-funder and part of an on growing conceptual group called Jasmine. A group united through passion against fear, a smell that's to spread out from the Mediterranean like a virus, to contaminate the world with Love, and heal from indifference. All can be part, and all shall be armed: Culture, Art, Music and Sport shall be our weapons of mass construction.

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