Bureij Cultural Forum

National Network
Palestine
Telephone
+970 - 8 - 2565 280
Fax
+970 - 8 - 2565 280
E-Mail
b_culture@mail.com
E-Mail (2)
tala245@hotmail.com
Mobile Phone
+970 599 867 570
Mobile Phone (other)
+970 599 434 436
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1975
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
General Information
The BCF has a board member consists of 7 members and a general assembly consists of 39 members. The BCF has a permanent staff consists of 10 staff and 35 volunteers; the BCF was one of the 8 founders of the General Union of Cultural Centers (GUCC) on June 1997 and its representative occupies a member seat of the GUCC Board since 1997. The BCF receives funding from the World Bank, the Palestinian Center for Micro projects Development, the Swiss Government, the Welfare Association, the NGO Development Center, and the Ministry of Culture. The BCF has three main units that work as programs; the youth, children, and women. The BCF is a member of the Palestinian Committee for Election Monitoring where it coordinates its program of election monitoring of the all election processes including the Presidential election, the Legislative election, and the local election in the Middle Gaza District.
Mission and Objectives

The Bureij Cultural Forum (BCF) aims to provide communities by the required space and facility where they can explore their innovations through culture outlets and use its means to shape their future better.
Bureij Cultural Forum Goals: The BCF aims to:
1) Enhancing commitment, ethics, and values among Palestinian community.
2) Enabling communities to explore the innovation of culture towards shaping a better future.
3) Strengthening linkages between communities and mutual understanding.
4) Facilitating communities' efforts towards overcoming their challenges and meeting their needs.
5) Expanding democratic principles and practices among Palestinians.
6) Addressing Palestinian Culture and creating linkages with other cultures in the region.

Main Projects / Activities

The BCF has three main units that work as programs; the youth, children, and women; the youth program is targeting youth in the area of youth life skills, civic education, role of citizen in democracy, and responsibility.
The woman program targets the women in the awareness area and capacity building to educate them especially house wives, student females, and illiterates through workshops, counseling, computer, librarian activities, and basic education needs for the illiterates.
The children program targets children in the areas of capacity building, psychosocial treatment and support, and strengthening their capabilities through formal education empowerment lessons, Computer education, Forming art, Literature, Drama, and Theatre.
The BCF has a public Library of about 7,000 books and a Computer training lab with 23 computers, several training halls, and required facilities and equipments. The BCF conducts activities vary between festivals, drama and theatre shows, surveys, animation productions, training workshops, civic education and advocacy training, open community meetings with decision makers, debates about novels, and cultural events including poet, reading campaigns for children, proposing educational movies, and literacy.

Contact (1) Full Name
Rabab Abu Kamail, Director
Head of the organisation
Maher Mahmoud Issa
Contact (2) Full Name
Naser Awad, General Secretary