A scholarship for university studies at Paris IV Sorbonne Abu Dhabi was generously granted to a young Palestinian student from Ramallah, West Bank
It consists of a 3 years course leading to the licence, equivalent to a bachelor degree. The obtaining of this scholarship was made possible thanks to the support comitee of AD
However, lodging and transport are being taken care of by ACAP

Donations in money were sent by ACAP to two different associations in Lebanon. Al Huda association and Saint Vincent de Paul both of which worked very closely in the relief of the displaced South population. In August 2006 ACAP participated in sending goods to the population of the South of Lebanon. Mr Douste-Blazy, Minister of Foreign Affairs chartered a humanitarian boat to Lebanon and thus allowed us to ship the products collected in France. (Medicines, food, sanitary products, clothes, diapers, etc.)
On the 10th of September, ACAP used the different donations sent for Lebanon in buying 2000 book cases for children, 2000 pencils kits, full of pencils, rubbers, rulers, etc. paper books also more then 9000 metres of cotton to make bed sheets.
Medicine for children was also donated in Amman and sent to Lebanon.
2000 book cases with each a pencil box full of crayons, erasers, pencil sharpeners, rulers, compasses, squares, writing pads etc were distributed to the children of the South via associations like Saint Vincent de Paul and Al Huda association. 9000 metres of cotn fabric were also sent in order to make sheets and pillow cases for their beds.

Thanks to the support comitee of Abu Dhabi, ACAP was able to obtain scholarships for 3 young Lebanese to the Sorbonne University of AD for a 3 years course up to the licence equivalent to the bachelor degree, including lodging and transport

Thanks to its generous donators A Child, A Promise, bought, sent and distributed 2500 pair of shoes to the children of the refugee camps of Palestine in Lebanon, for the Holy feast of Ramadan, mainly to the Al Chamale camp and to the Borj Al Barajneh camp through the Arab and Palestinian Women League
Children from 4 to 16 years of age benefited from them

1)The national Edward Said Conservatoire of Ramallah wishes to enlarge in a new branch in the town of Bethlehem, so sadly afflicted, impoverished and bruised.
Because we believe that culture and arts, in all their expressions, are the best way to open horizons, and that music, I quote Plato, "give a soul to our heart, wings to our thought and blossoming to our imagination" and like Wagner, that " music begins where the power of the words ceases" ACAP projects to raise funds to help in the construction of this establishment.
A concert and a dinner are being programmed in a European capital for this purpose.

2) Rest
The concert was organized on June the second 2008 at the UNESCO Palace in Paris under the high patronage of H.R.H Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan.
Mrs. June Anderson the grand American lady of the Opera sang for the children of Bethlehem accompanied on the piano by Maestro Jeff Cohen.
Mrs. Carole Bouquet the spokes person of la VDE participated at the evening by reading texts from Rimbaud and René Char.
Two Palestinian youngsters came one from Ramallah and the second from Bethlehem and played who the cello and who the flute.
Mrs. Eve Ruggieri with the great humanity she is famous for presented the two young musicians.
This event met with a considerable success and ACAP collected enough funds for the board to start with the construction of the Conservatory.

Al Najah University Nablus Palestine
Two grants:
Mahmoud AbdelFatah Mohamad Al Sharaf/Architecture
Bashaer Abdel Kader Abdel Latif Mortano/Sciences

Al Quds University Jerusalem Palestine
Nevine Mostafa Mohamed Sajadeyyah / Ingenineering
Shihada Munir Ishaq Hijazi/ Law
Aesheh Najeeb Abdelrahman Almasre/ Medecine
Abdel Rahman Abdel Rahman Abdel Hadi/Medecine

Bir Zeit University Bir Zeit Palestine
Alaa Abdel Fatah Abu Kwaik/ Commerce-Accounting
Mohamad Ibrahim Anati/ Commerce-Business Administration
Hanadi Hammoudeh Nasser/ Arts
Sajidah Hisham Hmeidat/ Commerce-Accounting
Wassim Nimer Ibrahim/Commerce-Accounting

A Child, A Promise (ACAP) supported the work of Enfants Réfugiés du Monde (ERM) in Gaza enfantsrefugiesdumonde. ERM helps refugee children in several countries of the world by the setting of long and short term programs answering the problems of physical, psychological and social development notably by receiving them in their centres.

Thanks to the financial support of ACAP, ERM was able to see its project concerning the Gaza strip, the West Bank and the refugee camps of Lebanon ratified by the European Union. A Partnership between an association and the EU is possible only if the association brings 25 % of the global cost of the project itself.
Seven educational centres already present in the camps of Gaza and directed by ERM were compelled to shut their doors because of lack of means. They were reopened thanks to A Child, A Promise 's financial support, thus allowing the chidlren to reintegrate their work and play space and the staff of these centres their work.

UEUP gathers its funds thanks to the generosity of numerous donators, mainly during charity functions.
A first dinner was held at the Grand Hotel Intercontinental of Paris the 11th of October 2003 under the patronage and with the attendance of Mrs. Nazek Rafic Hariri.
This intellectual event gathered a big number of great Palestinian artists from all over the world around Mahmoud Darwish the big poet. Amongst the artists, there were Marcel Khalife who sang some of Darwish's poems accompagnied by his oud, Karim Said a young piano prodigy, Simon Shaheen grand violinist, defender of the Arabic music, he teaches in several American universities ( Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Juilliard etc....)simon shaheen, Jihad Akel on the violin, Diana Karazone etc...
Ms. Carole Bouquet was present and declaimed a florilegium of Darwish's poetry.
Prestigious partners cooperated to the success of this event, first of its kind for the children of Palestine in Paris : Chopard,, Lancel, Baume & Mercier, Lancel,Mont Blanc, Gallery Samagra, Smart Como offered magnificent gifts for the tombola the first price of which was a Smart car.
Our partner of the evening Cartier offered a prestigious necklace put to auction.

A part of the funds gathered during the first dinner was donated to Education and Play Children, a Palestinian association which purpose is to offer thousands of children in the Gaza strip the possibility to have a space for ludic activities as well as psychological support.

A Child, A Promise made it possible for the Ludobus to be functional. It is a mobile centre which goes to meet the children unable to join us for health reasons or for other reasons, bringing them entertainments and games.

Hosting in Paris, eight children of the refugee camps of Lebanon was made possible, with two of their teachers for a week, two summers at a row for what we called since " A fairy tale trip"... The first journey took place summer 2004, the second in 2005. The choice of the children is difficult, it is done upon particular criteria, age, maturity, scholastic efforts and assiduity to the centres.
These children never left their camps before their trip to France. This journey encouraged a lot of them and gave them a little more confidence and hope in their future. ACAP aims to follow them until they finish schools and or university.
Now this trip has become a yearly rendezvous...

With the help of our French Consulate in Jerusalem, a team of A Child, A Promise went for a humanitarian and recognition mission to Palestine, in the West Bank and Gaza, mainly Khan Younes, Rafah as well as Nablus. The centers A Child, A Promise is supporting in Gaza were visited and we were able to measure the enormous needs of the Palestinian children. The work carried out by different associations we support financially is essential but far from being enough.Un Enfant, Une Promesse is working on the creation of a centre for the children between 6 and 16 years of age in Khan Younes. For more informations please check on " Actual Pojects" : Khan Younes Centre.
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A Child, A Promise works closely with H.E. Maestro Miguel Angel Estrella, the ambassador of Argentine at the Unesco. Ma Estrella offers his music and his immense talent to the service of humanity, of the desherited children of the shanty towns of Argentina and of the world. musique esperance Moved by the actions of A Child, A Promise, Ma Estrella has offered recitals for the benefit of the children of Palestine. The first recital was symbolically given in the Cultural Palace of Ramallah and was a great success. A second followed in the city of Nablus in its University.
Then Ma Estrella participated in the dinner organized in Dubai under the high Patronage of H.RH Princess Haya Bint AL Hussein, spouse of H.H General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prince of Dubai and Prime Ministre of the UAE.
On the 22nd of May, he played for them in Abu Dhabi, in a recital organized by the Music and Arts Foundation under the high patronage of H.E Sheikh Nahyan Mubarak Al Nahyan, Ministre of Higher Education and Scientific researches of the UAE.

In September 2005, the centre directed by Enfants Réfugiés du Monde in the refugee camp of Borj Al Barajneh in Beirut was entirely refurbished thanks to ACAP supported by the CCC Beirut Lebanon.
The centre, which hosts daily 200 children between 6 and 12 years of age, was in an insalubrious state. Humidity was corroding the walls. The diluvial winter rains of the winter pouring on a cracked roof, the total absence of pipe tubes and heating made of it a place utterly unhealthy for the children and the team looking after them.

A Bibliobus was created. The Bibliobus proceeds in the same spirit of the Ludobus. It is the sibyllline of a mobile library and offers the children books, multimedia interactive CDs and even stories written by children from the camps
Reading afternoons are hence organized by the animators of the Play and Education association. This way, reading becomes more and more integrated in the daily life of the Palestinian children and becomes less an out of reach luxury.
The donations of the second diner in November 2005 have allowed to realize this project, you can find its description after Khan Younes project.

A Child, A Promise has supported the Marcel Khalife contest at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music for the year 2006, held in Jerusalem. 17 scholarships were given to young musicians, allowing them to continue their musical studies.
This deed was feasible thanks to the second charity dinner of November 2005 in Dubai, the description of which you can find after actual Khan Younesprojects .

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, which coincided with the Music Festival, La Voix de l'Enfant invited 50 children from all over the world, to Paris for a whole week.
These children came from more then 14 different countries through the associations federated by LVE.
A Child, A Promise is proud to have collaborated in all the ways it could in this extraordinary happening. 12 children were invited via ACAP, from Gaza Mustapha and Nour, From Jordan, Nour and Rania, from Lebanon Abdallah (Makassed) and Carla (Centre of St Charbel Bickfaya), from the Palestinian refugee camps (Lebanon) Ahmad and Doaa, and finally from Ma Estrella's music workshops in Argentine, Nelson, Emanuel, Pedro and Pamela.
Everyday, the children attended the workshops of the Lutherie Urbaine and practised all together in view of the Music event, at the Esplanade of the Paris town-hall. Afternoons were spent visiting the French Capital and its monuments.
On the so waited for evening of the 21st of June, Mrs Corinne Perben, spouse of the Ministre of Transports along with all the ambassadors of the invited countries were there, around Martine Brousse, the formidable Director of LVE and her tireless team. In spite of the rain, the public was numerous and the joy of the young and not so young was truly the guest of honour of this event...

A member of ACAP and a representative of the la VOIX DE L'ENFANT (VDE) went to the Palestinian Territories in a reconnaissance mission in order to implement the Polyvalent Centre for Children (PCC) in Khan Younis, in the Gaza strip.
The mission lasted two weeks where, with the help and support of the French Consulate of Jerusalem, it reached Gaza
The project of the center progressed and a worthy local partner, the PMRS, with material resources on the field was called upon and accepted to engage as a partner in human, financial and professional resources
An agreement between the two protagonists is being drafted presently
With the support of our post in Jerusalem, the project was deposited at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The VDE graciously put at the disposal of the PCC of KY as a part timer, one of its specialists for the coordination of the project between Paris and Gaza
A contest for the plans of the centre has started in the last year of engineering in the Gaza University
A prize will be offered to the laureate
The elaboration of a jury composed of engineers, representatives of each concerned association and the French Cultural Centre is to be placed, the construction shall go to an officially recognized builder CIE.
The effective construction will begin in September 2007
The full project and the global budget will be available on this site starting from the month of September 2007.
Furthermore, this mission covered all the territories of the West Bank notably Jenin and Hebron.
The enormous needs of the Palestinian population were measured, especially the children's. They were taken in high consideration in view of the association's future actions

Two electrical keybaords, two ouds and four percussion instruments were offered to two differenct centers for children in the difficult camp of Chouafat in Jerusalem
One center is directed by a french NGO and the other by an italina NGO

Regarding the university fields, ACAP granted:
-Two medical scholarships for 2007/2008 at AL QUDS UNIVERSITY ABU DIS JERUSALEM PLALESTINE
-Four different scholraships (ingineering, arts and commerce/economics) at the BIR ZEIT UNIVERSITY RAMALLAH PALESTINE for the year 2007/2008

On the 6th and 7th of November 2008 and in collaboration with ACAP, the Abu Dhabi Music and Art Foundation (ADMAF), under the directive of its wonderful president, H.E Mrs. Hoda Kano, organized at the Emirates Palace of Abu Dhabi a musical evening
This event was under the Patronage and with the presence of H.H Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al Nahayan, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Researches
Marcel Khalife and his assemble Al Mayadine performed in: Farewell Mahmoud Darwish
Khalife sang the poems of Darwish he had put into music
Some songs were never interpreted before
The evening was very moving and the funds collected were offered to ACAP to continue its work with the children of the refugee camps

In December 2008, ACAP installed the central heating at the Joy School for slow learners in Beit Sahour Palestine.
The 120 children who go there daily and receive attention, care and a maximum of training are now warm.