Doha Mother & Child Community Center

The Beth­le­hem Devel­op­ment Foun­da­tion and the Doha Munic­i­pal­i­ty are devel­op­ing an oper­a­tional plan for the Hus­sam and Suhair Abu Issa Moth­er and Child Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ter. The Foun­da­tion has used the exper­tise of its board mem­bers and exter­nal...

Efficient Street Lighting

Over the years, street light­ing expense in Beth­le­hem has become a grow­ing bur­den on the local author­i­ties, even though part of it is direct­ly paid by the res­i­dents. Espe­cial­ly dur­ing Christ­mas peri­od, the cost of street light­ing reach­es $40,000...

Shepherds’ Field Street Rehabilitation Project

Since the begin­ning of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, pub­lic spaces, includ­ing streets, squares and parks, have become a cen­tral pri­or­i­ty for local author­i­ties try­ing to reassess how the users inter­act with these spaces. A year lat­er, the way we look at and deal...

Hussam & Suhair Abu Issa Community Center Building

In Feb­ru­ary 2018 Mr. Hus­sam Abu Issa gen­er­ous­ly donat­ed to the Doha Munic­i­pal­i­ty to build a com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter to serve 15,000 res­i­dents. Due to iden­ti­fied lack of facil­i­ties sup­port­ing women empow­er­ment, the con­cept was trans­formed to serve...

Nativity Church Restoration – A Project we Support

In the year of 2008 and by a Pres­i­den­tial decree, The Pres­i­den­tial Com­mit­tee for Restora­tion of the Church of Nativ­i­ty was estab­lished. The Com­mit­tee is cur­rent­ly head­ed by Eng. Ziad Alban­dak and mem­ber­ship of: Mar­wan Abdel­hamid, Varsen...

Solid Waste Management

Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment (SWM) was a chal­leng­ing issue fac­ing Beth­le­hem Gov­er­norate. It con­tributed to many pol­lu­tion prob­lems in spite of  grad­ual improve­ment. There are some seri­ous short­falls in SWM in which are poten­tial­ly caus­ing a...