ABOUT THE CENTER

The Community Action Center, located in the Old City of East Jerusalem, is a Palestinian non-profit community rights based organization established in 1999. The building is originally a St.Julian Church which is over 800 years old, renovated by Al-Quds University in cooperation with the Welfare Association. The CAC, a university-linked and professionally staffed community based organization, aims to empower the disadvantaged of East Jerusalem to access their rights and entitlements and negotiate the complex bureaucratic procedures that control the flow of these rights. This mandate translates into empowering local residents to organize to solve collective problems with particular attention to social and economic inequality, and to mobilize their own volunteer capacity. Since the establishment of the center till its tenth consecutive year of service, the center has served over 264,516 beneficiaries.