By Hamza Jaka The Youth Ability Summit was an incredible experience. I’d done international work before, but nothing like this. It was amazing to be able to share my knowledge with many other disabled youth from America and Syria. We found we had so much in common and so many shared experiences that it felt […]
By Shafeka Hashash Attending the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on Tuesday, September 21 was the most outstanding experience of my life. The CGI Special Session began with President Clinton’s opening remarks and followed by an acknowledgment of programs doing great work around the globe. The first of these was the Open Hands Initiative. President Clinton […]
Only one month removed from the extraordinary gathering of American and Syrian youth self advocates in Syria, the first fruits of the inaugural Open Hands Initiative Youth Ability Summit are already being seen. On September 1st, I had the pleasure to share my experiences from the Summit at the UN Conference of State Parties in […]
عيد مبارك من مبادرة الأيدي المفتوحة! ونتمنى لأصدقائنا من مختلف أنحاء العالم احتفال سعيد بعيد الفطر المبارك! مشاركون من سورية وأمريكا في “قمة الشباب للتمكن” اطلقتها مبادرة الأيدي المفتوحة في دمشق، سورية أغسطس 2010. American and Syrian youth self-advocates work together at the Open Hands’ inaugural Youth Ability Summit in Damascus, Syria September 9 is […]
As a child, I was fascinated by comic books. The epic stories of good versus evil in a world parallel to our own captured my imagination and established a youthful ideal of justice I still possess. My old Spider-man, X-Men and Thor comics are now in storage somewhere, trapped in plastic sleeves, their well read […]