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TRIVIA WITH A CAUSE 2025

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Hello again Trivia Lovers and Super Supporters!

We’re back and ready for another round of brain-busting fun! Get your thinking caps on and grab your tickets for the Friends of Hebron Trivia with a Cause 2025—it’s going to be a great night! 

Join us for an evening jam-packed with curly questions, friendly rivalry, and good vibes, all while making a real difference. Put your trivia skills to the test, and raise much-needed funds for education projects in Hebron, Palestine.

Event Details:

Why Back Education in Palestine?
Because knowledge is power! Your support helps turn dreams into diplomas and hope into opportunity. Here’s what your participation means:

Trivia with a Cause 2024 raised enough funds to support two programs:
 
–          The Dkaika Education Access Project for school students and young people to have safe transport to school and university. This trip has always been precarious, but with increased settler violence this project is more important than ever to ensure the community can keep accessing their right to education and remain on their lands.
 
–          The Dream Centre for Children with Autism, a school that offers specialized services to one of the most marginalized segments of the Palestinian society. By late September 2023, the centre was caring for 120 students with a specialized team of 16 professionals in special education. With permits for workers cancelled since October 7th 2023, parents have been unable to pay for their children’s schooling. Friends of Hebron Sydney raised the required matched funding to keep the school operational in the 2024 – 2025 school year.
 
Friends of Hebron Sydney is aiming to raise enough funds again this year to support these two projects that are very dear to us and the community.

How You Can Join the Fun:

  • Round up your crew, book your table & help spread the word—trivia is better with a crowd!
  • Can’t make it? No worries! You can still chip in with a donation and make an impact.
  • Feeling extra helpful? Volunteer with us! We need volunteers for our trivia nights and market stalls.

Thanks for all your support and generosity—we’re looking forward to seeing you there!

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TRIVIA WITH A CAUSE 2022

After a two year hiatus, we’re dusting off the tables and jump-starting our trivia night extravaganza.

To grab your tickets go to: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/898231

It’s been a long time between quiz sets, so start brushing up on your general knowledge to help Friends of Hebron support .We need to fund wages for two teachers in the Huda kindergarten (in the village of Umm Al Khair) and the Dkaika School Transport project.

Early Bird Tickets | 29 April – 13 May | Unwaged $15 | Waged $35
Second Release Tickets | 14 May – 17 June | Unwaged $25 | Waged $40

Tickets here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/898231

The new school year in Palestine starts in September so we’re aiming to raise funds to support our projects for another year. Come along – your support means children in Hebron are assured of an education.

As our usual venue @Addison Rd Community Centre is still operating as an emergency food relief depot, we are having our trivia night this year at Kogarah High School. Street parking available or carpark entry through Victoria St.

“Friends of Hebron Trivia With a Cause” is organised by Palestine Fair Trade Australia with Friends of Hebron Sydney.

Visit hebronleichhardt.wordpress.com to read more about our work.
Tickets here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/898231 

Festival of Friendship Refugee Week Event 2014

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Refugee Week Festival Sat 21 June 2014

Refugee Week Festival Sat 21 June 2014

Only one week to go!
The Refugee Week Festival starts
12 noon in Leichhardt Town Hall, next Saturday, 21st June.
More about the Festival…

The 2014 Refugee Week Festival will support a school transport programme to help teenage girls in the remote community of Dkaika  finish high school. Currently the students have to walk for almost an hour, must walk 7km along a rough 4WD mountain track  to  the nearest high school

The situation in Dkaika
The students have to walk for almost an hour to reach the nearest junior high school and even further to a school where they complete year 12.This has lead to high dropout rates, especially for girls.

Chidren study in front of their classroom - demolished by the Israeli occupation forces.

Chidren study in front of their classroom – demolished by the Israeli occupation forces.

The solution identified by the community is a school transport plan and with your support, we can help them achieve this.

You can help support the students of Dkaika by coming to our Refugee Week Festival, which will be held on Saturday, 21st June, in Leichhardt Town Hall. The money raised will pay the wages of a driver and we hope, the running costs of the vehicle, to take students to high school and university.

To read a full report about the village and our proposed project to support education access to the community click here.
For Festival details, email hebronleichhardt@gmail.com.
Donations are welcome and can be made here.

Leichhardt Friends of Hebron have been successful in supporting the establishment of three kindergarten facilities in Hebron and the South Hebron Hills. Through our partnership with the Hebron International Resource Network (HIRN) we are working with some of the most impoverished, vulnerable and threatened communities in the area.

Dkaika is one of these, an isolated and vulnerable community in the far south of Palestine, only metres from the boundary with Israel. Sadly, the community faces a targeted campaign of isolation and destruction from the Israeli Army.

The Israeli authorities are threatening to demolish 35 homes and buildings, including at least one classroom. At least 4 homes and one classroom have already been demolished.

They also prevent the community from accessing the most basic services, including electricity and running water although these are provided to Israeli residents of nearby illegal settlements. Despite the hardship this causes, people feel able to remain on their traditional lands as long as their children have access to education, which is highly valued in Palestine people.

Since 2009, Leichhardt Friends of Hebron have been successful in supporting the establishment of three kindergarten facilities in Hebron and the South Hebron Hills. Through our partnership with the Hebron International Resource Network (HIRN) we are working with some of the most impoverished, vulnerable and threatened communities in the area.