Detached houses (with gardens) – Agricultural lands (farming alBiarah) – Health services – Bakery – Everyday essentials’ shops – Shops – Women’s beauty salon – Barbershop – Tree planting, expansion, and opening of streets – Public transportation and bus stops – Kindergarten (she works in) – Women’s vocational training center – Social spaces and parks – Recreational areas – Sports facilities – Forests (afforestation of unused land) – Renovation and rehabilitation of existing structures – Economic production spaces

Nida' Jihad Mazar'a

Nida’ emphasized on the need to provide work opportunities for women, and the rehabilitation of the Wadi alDilb area which she described as “destroyed.” She recalled her first memories in the Janayen* agricultural fields and the valleys (she grew up in Qarawat Bani Zeid), where she wishes to live one day. She noted the “bare lands”,** the weakened water stream compared to earlier times and its contamination with wastewater; then she recalled how the orchards used to be densely lined with citrus and fruit trees, and how the alDilb waters streamed year round. She spoke about the many pools carved into the rock bed of the wadi, about swimming and fishing in them, about collecting the “rathef” pebbles for baking bread, and about her visits with her husband and girls to the Bedouins living close to the stream. She pictured creating a crisps factory (akin her hometown) to provide employment opportunities for the women of the village, a handcrafts training center, a nursery, services and supplies shops, public transportation, among others. She ended by saying: “Actually I do not understand maps, how did I go along with you, I do not know! Look, all that I noted are things we suffer from… Indeed, imagining is a great thing!”

* Janayen is the name used for the agricultural fields that lie in the northern parts of the village, along Wadi alDilb.

** Until today there are a great number of trees in the area, yet as Nida’ and some photographs testify, it has lost significant parts of its vegetation.

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