Lissan is a nonprofit organization that works to reduce gender and social inequalities in Jerusalem by improving Hebrew education for Palestinian women to provide them with greater access to rights, resources, and opportunities. Through practical and accessible Hebrew classes for women, pedagogical and cultural sensitivity training for teachers, and joint programming for Israeli and Palestinian volunteers, Lissan aims to bridge the gap between East and West Jerusalem and strengthen East Jerusalemite women. Our long term vision is for East Jerusalemite women to have ultimate agency in their personal and professional lives, and for Jerusalem to have an equal presence of its two dominant languages, Hebrew and Arabic, in bureaucratic systems and in the public sphere.
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