Women Demand Mobility

The village of Mrar in the Galilee is similar to many Arab villages where women's mobility and freedom of movement are severely limited due to social custom and lack of public infrastructure. Since there is no internal public transport of any kind within this large, sprawling village of 18,000 inhabitants, the mobility project was conceived by a group of women who were fed up with finding ways to get to a weekly Kayan meeting. Conceived and created by a group of women, graduates of a series of Kayan courses in personal and community empowerment and activism, the women are now actively lobbying for internal transport, together with an urban planner. The project will serve as a model for other towns and villages with similar issues.