Empowering Youth For A Better Future
Welcome To The East Jerusalem YMCA
Watch our youth group talk about the East Jerusalem YMCA while taking you on a virtual tour.
Our Programs
Vocational Training Center
Following the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, the Vocational Training Center, was established to serve the marginalized and deprived youth living in the refugee camp of Aqbat Jaber, after being forced from...
Rehabilitation Program
The Rehabilitation Program was initiated in 1989, to provide quality rehabilitation services for the youth injured due to the political violence during the first Palestinian uprising “Intifada”. The...
Women’s Development Program
The Program fosters agency among women and men to participate on equal terms to realize their economic, political, cultural, and social rights.
Joint Advocacy Initiative
JAI works to engage a large number of people in programs and advocacy work to create and develop country-based networks, to be a resource advocacy program on Palestine, to empower and engage...
Career Advancement Center
Established In 2020, the Career Advancement Center seeks to provide Palestinian youth (age 15-35) in Jerusalem with safe educational and work spaces aimed at enhancing their professional identity...
Youth Department
The current EJ-YMCA Youth Department was restructured in 2018, with the aim to promote equality and social justice among youth based on Christian values and principals of human rights, and in...
Community Centers
Jerusalem Community Center
The sports center provides: Indoor facilities that include swimming pool and its facilities “steam room, sauna room, changing rooms”, fitness gym, multi-purpose hall “Indiaca, basketball, and...
Beit Sahour Community Center
Beit Sahour Community Center is located near the Shepherds Field site. It addition to providing multiple and accessible sports facilities, the center is also engaged in community activities and...
Ramallah Community Center
Ramallah Community Center established in 2017, on a piece of land donated by the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. The main goal of the center is to improve the lives of Palestinian families by...
Joint Advocacy Initiative
Olive Tree Campaign
Launched in 2002, the JAI' Olive Tree Campaign distributes olive saplings among farmers, sponsored by individuals, YMCAs, YWCAs, churches, church related organizations, human rights organizations, as well as solidarity and advocacy groups around the world, as an act of solidarity and support to help 'Keep Hope Alive'
Youth Department
BrinGreen Project
Complete with seed pack, soil and instructions, and recipes, young people at The East Jerusalem YMCA have created hundreds of micro-green havens thanks to #YMCAYouthLedSolutions. Watch the video to find out more!