JINWAR organizes itself ... Women form their council

BERITAN MEDOUSA – OLVA HAJ MANSOUR / AL-HASAKAH

On 10 March, 2016, women's organizations in al-Jazeera region started building the first women's village in the Middle East on behalf of the women's village or the equivalent of the Kurdish language JINWAR. The village was built next to the historical "Kebz" hill in ed-Derbasia district of ​​al-Hasakah canton in North Syria. The village is surrounded by villages such as Karkand, Harbah, Atyshan and Kairawan.

The style of building the village is as the ancient villages built in the Neolithic era. The village is consisted of 30 houses, a school named Om Owaish School, a training academy on behalf of the Jinwar Academy, a health center, a bakery and a commercial store. The houses were built of mud, and the doors of the houses are all against each other.

The idea of ​​building the village was inspired by the ideology of the leader of the Kurdish people Abdullah Ocalan after the revolution launched by women in Rojava and North-East Syria. In this regard, many meetings were held for women's and engineers' institutions. After extensive discussions, they reached the idea of ​​building the village in square form, the houses to be of mud and the life within the village must be participatory.

On 10 March, 2016, after 8 March "Women's Day", starting the construction of the village was announced. In the beginning, the infrastructure of the village was worked on, and in 2017,  the work began on other things.

After the village opened on the 25th of last November, 8 women with their children entered the village and began their lives with a participatory spirit. The village was opened to women who were subjected to violence by men, the wives of martyrs and women who want to live in the village. Moreover, women who want to live in the village have to review Kongra Star and Women's House.

After the women moved to the village, they organized their village, where a council was formed in the village.

Fatima Darwish, a spokeswoman for the village said that the work in the village was accomplished through partnership. She added, "Women have to work together, such as protection, agriculture, preparing for food and others, and women must hold their meeting every week, the council must meet and valuate its works. Days must be organized to receive training about women. Women must know themselves."

Fatima said that the village's doors are also open to women of the neighboring villages, and they can send their children to the school of the village, get bread from the village's bakery and join the training cources.

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