Detached houses (with gardens, a grid like that of Barcelona) – Health services – Bakery – Everyday essentials’ shops – Shops – Pedestrian street and stairs – Tree planting, expansion, and opening of streets – Public transportation and parking (regular) – Social spaces and parks – Recreational areas – Service facilities (for students)

Razan Jamal A'lqam

Razan emphasized the issue of education and the need to better connect Ein Qiniya with skilling and education (including advanced degrees) facilities in Ramallah. She favored offers in the city to those in the village, and to push realities so that all kids of Ein Qiniya get allocations to offers in the earlier, she initially proposed canceling the school in the latter. Later she reversed her course, and envisioned  infrastructures that complement and improve formal education, such as services and training center for students, a stationary shop, a large playground for children, in addition to providing more space for the school. She considered these fundamental spaces for students to meet and connect. She expressed her frustration with restrictions on the movement of girls and women, saying: “Male youth meet a lot, at the café or other places in the village, while girls stay at home until married.” Razan wished that the village council would improve its performance,* provide the necessary infrastructure to better connect the village to the health services in the city, and provide basic services such as grocery stores, restaurants, public transportation, more garbage dumpsters and other daily needs. She described where she prefers to live in the future saying: “I would like the area in which I live to be neither far from the city nor small, because when it is small, services and the basic things we need will not be available.“ She concluded with: “I mean, seriously, is anything going to happen in Ein Qiniya? God willing, the village will become better!”

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