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Choice builds voice. Voice builds leadership.
About Khayari
Khayari is a Palestinian women-led nonprofit based in Bethlehem. We build supportive communities with young Palestinian women, creating spaces grounded in trust, belonging, participation, and respect.
Through practical learning, relationships, and continued support, women strengthen and exercise their leadership, agency, knowledge, and professional capacities across their personal, social, civic, and professional lives.
Our vision is a resilient community of Palestinian women who lead, make informed choices, and contribute to more just communities.
Building Pathways for Leadership and Participation
Khayari began with a commitment to create spaces where Palestinian women could learn, connect, make choices, and strengthen their voice. Since then, that work has grown into a wider pathway that connects structured learning with community, professional development, contribution, and continued participation.
Training remains an important entry point, but the relationship does not end when a program finishes. Women have returned as volunteers, program contributors, peer supporters, and speakers. Participants have also moved into paid contribution roles and represented their perspectives in international learning spaces.
Across seven training cohorts and other programs and activities, Khayari has directly engaged around 100 young Palestinian women.
Our programs bring together areas that women experience together in everyday life: identity, leadership, communication, workplace rights, conflict understanding, advocacy, professional preparation, cultural expression, and community participation.
What Khayari Looks Like in Practice
Lead Forward | نقطة انطلاق
Lead Forward is Khayari’s core learning pathway. It brings together identity, leadership, rights, communication, conflict analysis, advocacy, professional preparation, and Palestinian cultural expression through practical and participatory learning.
Women do more than discuss these topics. They practice communication, analyze situations, develop professional materials, engage in debate and advocacy exercises, explore Palestinian cultural practices, and reflect together on the choices and realities shaping their lives.
Khayari Community
Khayari is building stronger ways for women to remain connected after training through alumnae relationships, mentoring, volunteering, peer contribution, Give Back opportunities, and future leadership roles.
This allows participation to grow beyond a single program cycle and creates opportunities for women to contribute their own knowledge and experience to the community.
Professional Pathways
Professional preparation is woven throughout Khayari’s work. Participants develop skills in areas such as CV writing, professional communication, interviews, workplace rights, and relationship-building.
Khayari is also developing mentorship, internship, placement, and professional pathways that connect learning with women’s career choices and economic opportunities.
Partnerships and Exchange
Khayari works with universities, Palestinian civil-society organizations, specialist trainers, and international partners to widen access to knowledge, relationships, learning spaces, and opportunities.
These relationships are designed around reciprocal learning and Palestinian leadership. Khayari participants enter exchange spaces as speakers, knowledge-holders, and contributors whose experiences and perspectives have value in their own right.
What Women Are Telling Us
Khayari’s strongest recurring finding is the importance women place on trust, safety, belonging, and meaningful participation.
Across comparable final evaluations, participants rated safe space and connection an average of 4.71 out of 5.
In Khayari’s 2025 end-of-cycle feedback:
100% of 27 respondents rated safe space and belonging 4 or 5 out of 5.
93% rated their confidence after the program 4 or 5 out of 5.
63% reported that they were already applying something they had learned through Khayari in their daily life, studies, or work.
Women are also moving from participation into contribution. Alumnae have returned to support later activities, participants have taken on paid support roles, and former participants have represented their perspectives as paid speakers in international learning spaces.
Choice, Identity, and Agency
Khayari means “my choice” in Arabic.
The name reflects how we understand our role. Palestinian women already carry knowledge, capacities, identities, aspirations, and agency. Khayari creates pathways, relationships, and spaces where women can exercise that agency, strengthen their voice, develop practical knowledge, and participate more fully in professional and community life.
Palestinian identity is part of this work. Cultural practices such as tatreez, Palestinian embroidery, and dabke create spaces for memory, expression, connection, and reflection on belonging.
Khayari’s approach grows from the realities of Palestinian women themselves and continues to develop through participant feedback, relationships, and shared learning.
Participant Voices
“Speaking in front of a group was a major milestone for me, as I had never shared my ideas with others before.”
Shoruq
“I ran a youth meeting. I gave a lecture. I used Khayari material to train others.”
Dana
These experiences reflect what Khayari hopes to build: women carrying learning beyond the training space, using their voice, making choices, and contributing their knowledge to others.
Support Khayari
Your support helps Palestinian women participate in Khayari programs at no cost and strengthens the pathways that surround those programs.
Contributions help support:
- Local staff and specialist trainers
- Accessible training spaces, transportation, and learning materials
- Leadership and professional-development programs
- Mentoring, internship, placement, and professional pathways.
- Alumnae, volunteer, and paid participant-contribution opportunities
- Community and cultural activities
- Evaluation, safeguarding, and strong organizational systems
- Partnerships that expand learning and professional opportunities
Tax-deductible donations in the United States can be made through Experience Mission.
By supporting Khayari, you are investing in a Palestinian women-led organization building long-term spaces for choice, voice, leadership, belonging, and participation.
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Khayari and Experience Mission
Experience Mission serves as Khayari’s U.S. charitable giving partner, providing a tax-deductible donation pathway for supporters in the United States and helping Khayari build relationships with individuals and communities interested in supporting its work.
Khayari leads its programs, priorities, participant relationships, partnerships, and organizational direction from Palestine. Experience Mission supports that locally led work through fundraising infrastructure, relationships, and opportunities for reciprocal learning and connection.
The partnership has also created opportunities for Khayari to engage communities in the United States directly. Through speaking engagements, conversations, fundraising, and relationship-building, Khayari has been able to share its work and bring Palestinian women’s perspectives into international spaces in their own voices.
Both organizations value relationships built through listening, respect, trust, and long-term connection.
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