Bard Palestinian Youth Initiative (BPYI)

Accomplishments:

-The Bard Palestinian Youth Initiative (BPYI) is the only entirely student-run Palestinian engagement program in the United States.

-In 2009, the BPYI sponsored and arranged for the first Palestinian educational group to visit Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Read the article published in the most prominent Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, about the visit in the summer

of 2009:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/palestinian-youth-make-rare-yad-vashem-visit-1.280845

In 2010, BPYI took a second trip to Yad Vashem which was published by the Associated Press and then picked up by the world’s major newspapers. Read the article in the Jerusalem Post:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=185248

-In 2010, the BPYI working hand in hand with village craftsmen built the first children’s library in Palestine. The ribbon on the new library was cut jointly by the Governor of Salfit Province and the American Consulate. On December 28, 2010, the Mas'ha Library received a special book donation from the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem. Read the article: http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/pr122810.html