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What’s so special about this park in the West Bank?

In a small village in the West Bank, the first-of-its-kind sustainable environmental park will open its doors to the local community.

A view of the Sustainable Educational Far'un Park in Far'un, West Bank. Image uploaded on April 24, 2017. — Facebook/activecitizens

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Sustainable Educational Far'un Park project submitted by student Hoda Jarrar was one of five projects to reach the finals in the international Social Action Project competition organized by the British Council’s Active Citizens program.

Jarrar, an urban planning student at An-Najah National University in Nablus, carried out the project in cooperation with the Ma’an Development Center. This is the first project to establish a sustainable environmental park in a remote village in the province of Tulkarm, located in the northern West Bank.

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