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In October 2006, following various trips in Palestine and being young pensioners ready to get involved, François Jadoul, Alain Rihoux and Luis Vandaele looked for their solidarity with the Palestinians. Impacted by their experience and encounters on the field, the three founders realised that education is one of the parts suffering most due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to one of their contacts at Jenin University, Professor Samira Barghouti, many young people were forced to interrupt their higher education because of financial difficulties, while others had no opportunity to undertake it at all.

On December 20 2006, the NPO Hope-Espoir-Hoop was officially born. The choice of a trilingual name was, from the beginning, motivated by the desire to impact as many people as possible, specially in Belgium. Over the years, the name of the association has been shortened to Hope due to the importance of English to communicate with the various Palestinian partners.

Since its creation, more than a hundred students received a scholarship financed by Hope because of the timing of their university studies, which range from 4 to 5 years. During the first academic year of 2007-2008, Hope supported three students from the Arab American University in Jenin (AAUP). In 2011-2012, Al Quds University became our second most important partner. Then, the number of scholarships funded was twenty-four. Since 2015, Hope has also supported several students from Al Kamandjâti Music School in Ramallah, and the two-year training of female health workers as well at the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) since 2017.

Over the years, the number of scholarships financed by Hope has grown steadily and currently stands at around 40, thanks to your donations.

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