1. The The Middle East Project Palestinian Palestinian Midwives 09-201020 Circle Circle of Health International Presented Presented by Aishe Saifi

2. Team includes 9 midwives @ 2 volunteers

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone

4. Raising awareness to COHI’s activity & Creating new contacts Local & international NGO’s, Local organization, groups, press, embassies, friends & family Planned activity : OPEN HOUSE- Palestine

5. With Women Raising health awareness among Palestinian women

7. Skin to skin project Aisha & Lesley have started this project at May 2008. They have been to an international conference together ! Now they plan on spreading the word, how important is Skin To Skin. They want to continue educating professional personnel on this issue. In Hebrew and in Arabic !

8. Life is love Enjoy it

9. Ongoing Projects Maythaloun home birth center Skin to skin Mother tomother

10. Our aims for 2009-10 Increase No of participants midwives Bridging with other NGO’s Fund raising Sustaining skin to skin Organizing bilateral meetings

11. Obstacles and Precautions Lack of trust Short time projects with no long impacts Absence of tangible successes

12. Hope Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present