Atfaluna tries very hard to help itself. Please pay a visit to our on-line boutique, Atfaluna crafts to see the unique hand-crafted products made by deaf women and men in the Gaza Strip. Your purchases on our secure web site will help to provide jobs and much needed hope for hundreds of needy deaf persons and their families.

Atfaluna's crafts production and vocational training units address the needs of deaf persons who have never had the chance to go to school. With no literacy or job skills, the majority of deaf women and men live well under the poverty line, dependent upon charity or help from their families. The Atfaluna Vocational Training Unit offers the opportunity for the deaf to learn woodworking, upholstery, picture framing, sewing, traditional embroidery, furniture finishing, furniture painting, fabric weaving, rug weaving or pottery-making. In addition to learning a trade, trainees also learn to do simple mathematics and learn to read and write.

Upon completion of training courses, graduates are placed in community workshops or businesses, or in Atfaluna's Craft Production Unit. In addition, more than 150 needy women work from their homes doing embroidery or other assembly work and help to supplement the family income.