Hydroponics at Sindyanna of Galilee
Working together to create social change from the ground up through the power of hydroponic farming
Sindyanna of Galilee offers access to education and economic opportunities, alongside agricultural and financial advice, to Arab women and some 200 local Arab olive oil producers from Galilee, forming an essential platform for change.
“When you grow your own food, when you grow your own leaves in your own house and put it in your own salad, you know that you have clean food because you grew it.”
Nadia Goil, Sindyana of Galilee
Over the last few years, Sindyanna expanded the Hydroponic project to schools and kindergartens, including an innovative project with the Masar alternative school in Nazareth.
The Masar institute for education was established in 1996 in Nazareth and today educates around 300 students from kindergarten to the 12th grade. Its goal is to advance the creation of the first alternative experimental Arab-Palestinian school in Israel. With inspiration from Steven Hoffen's film, Sindyanna installed ten hydroponic systems at the school and in the homes of the school community and each system has been supplied with plants that were planted on-site.
Recent activities and future plans involve events at the school, where the systems and the produce will be showcased along with the screening of Hoffen’s film, Growing Peace in the Middle East, with Arabic subtitles.
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Sindyanna is a unique nonprofit, led by a team of Arab and Jewish women, working to create social change from the ground up. Due to automation and factories moving abroad, many Arab women have lost their jobs and struggle to get hired for other positions. They need our help to create economic opportunities for more women through the power of hydroponics.
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Sindyanna’s hydroponics project brings Jews and Arabs together, especially women, to tackle the challenge of ensuring that Arab women aren’t left behind in the economy. The hydroponics project creates opportunities for Arab women to grow food for their families and to have control over their own income by selling extra food for profit.
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Growing Peace is raising funds to enable the installation of more hydroponics systems so more women can grow and sell products for a profit to support their families.
Through additional fundraising efforts, Growing Peace can extend humanitarian efforts to bring hydroponics to schools, more food pantries, and other organizations that help those in need.