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THE SAMAR PROJECT
The Samar Project aims to support the Palestinian civil
society, through the importation and distribution of
products which, because of the Israeli occupation, can
not find outlet on the domestic market, leading to the
gradual collapse of the economy. Recently, the
Palestinian Chamber of Commerce calculated that at least
half of about three hundred small businesses affiliated
to it were forced to close, with the employment and
social repercussions that we can all imagine.
Partner and receiver of the initiative is the
Palestinian Red Crescent, the equivalent of our Red
Cross, which manages health interventions, and
humanitarian assistance in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip
and refugee camps where are refugees millions of
Palestinians expelled from their land by the Israeli
invasions of 1948 and 1967. Currently, for example, the
Palestinian Red Crescent is committed in assisting
refugee camp of Nahr El Bared in northern Lebanon, razed
to the ground by the Lebanese Army, with the consequent
reversal of tens of thousands of people on the
structures already coming the crisis of the other
Lebanese camps, mainly Beddawi, which has received more
than half of the approximately 40,000 residents of Nahr
El Bared.
The main products that we intend to place on the Italian
and European markets are largely those Palestinian
industries: exchequer, boxes and other wooden objects of
Bethlehem; services glasses and objets d'art glass from
Hebron, plates, cups and other ceramic elements of
Nablus, clothing and jewellery products from small
enterprises and cooperatives. We are studying other
projects, such as the importation and distribution of
industrial products in the field of cosmetics, notably
from the Dead Sea. Besides the importation of products
Palestinians, will start producing a line of beverages
dedicated to Palestine: the first will be the drinks
marketed Samar Cola and Samar Orange, of which 20% of
the proceeds will go to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The mission of this initiative is very demanding,
inserted in the vein of trade solidarity, from which up
to now the Palestinian society was inexplicably almost
entirely excluded, deficiencies which we intend to fill,
with the dual aim of helping to revitalize the
manufacturing base Palestinian and supporting the health
and humanitarian structure of the Palestinian Red
Crescent, forced to work in dramatic conditions and
whose operators often pay with their lives dedication to
their essential work.
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