After Ramadan, the LGRDP program is welcoming a delegation of 20 young Belgian students enrolled in the Belgian organization OIRD (Organisation Internationale pour la Réussite et le Développement; www.oird.org). The young students, born in Belgium but coming from socially and economically vulnerable communities or belonging to ethnic minorities, will discover the development cooperation (the work of BTC, and in particular the LGRDP program), the territory of Palestine and Israel, as well as the difficulties people face here.  

Along the journey they will visit the bigger cities such as Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Tel Aviv, but will also be hosted by families of Al Karmil Municipality (small village South-East of Hebron and part of the LGRDP program) and Palestinian Bedouins. Many questions will be raised and addressed: What is the overall aim of development cooperation? What does BTC do? What are the conditions BTC works in? What are the objectives and aims of the LGRDP program? What are the difficulties Palestinians face? How does the life in the Palestinian Territory affect schooling youth? Etc. In addition, an exchange/dialogue between Israelis, Palestinians and the Belgian students will be set up in cooperation with the Willy Brandt Center in Jerusalem.  

The whole trip, including preparations, will be filmed. This documentary will focus on the “discovery of the Palestinian Territory” and the view of the young people on development cooperation, identity, solidarity and the (political) situation. The documentary will be a mixture between public and private spaces and situations, between discovery and analysis. All meetings and visits will be filmed and in parallel interviews with the youth will take place to follow their thoughts and enrich the events with personal point of views.