History and goals

At the IPPNW European - Middle East Student Meeting in June 2003 the Refugee Camp Project (Recap) was founded by medical students of more than ten different countries from around the globe. In August of 2004, the first group of students travelled to Palestine to participate in the project.

Now the 6th summer session is about to begin. The project idea should also serve as a base for future refugee camp projects in other areas of the world.

Our major goal is to support medical health care projects and to give medical students more awareness about the life in a refugee camp. Our target group in the refugee camps is children and adolescents aged 8-15 years.

Brief project description

Within the project international medical students should get the possibility to have a one-month-experience in a Palestinian Refugee Camp. In the first 10 days an introduction into the social, political, cultural situation of the people in the refugee camps will be given by Palestinian medical students at the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem.

Also, during this period, the social project will be planned and prepared, for example by having a look around in a camp, and learning about educational health awareness projects.

The rest of the month will be spent in Bethlehem, where the participants will have the possibility to do rotations at the local health institutions and also to organize various activities for children in several refugee camps.

The project's aim is to draw a greater awareness to the actual situation in the refugee camps, to provide medical and social help to the refugees and to work towards non-violent conflict prevention.

Click here to see the ReCap info sheet.

Click here to visit the Google Groups page.

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