Community Action Center” (“CAC”)

About us

In 1999 Al-Quds University created the “Community Action Center” (“CAC”), a semi autonomous association, which aims to empower the Palestinian community in East Jerusalem. The CAC, located in the Old City of East Jerusalem as well as in the Al-Abraj Buildings in Abu Dis, is a Palestinian non-profit community rights-based organization. The main headquarters of CAC is situated in a beautiful 800-year-old building, originally a St. Julian Church, renovated by Al-Quds University in cooperation with the Welfare Association.

hrough its professional staff of different backgrounds and expertise, the CAC aims to empower the disadvantaged Palestinians of East Jerusalem to access their rights and entitlements and negotiate the complex bureaucratic procedures that control the flow of these rights. This mandate translates into empowering local residents to organize to solve collective problems with particular attention to social and economic inequality, and to mobilize their own volunteer capacity.

Vision & Mission

The CAC’s mission is to advance justice and dignity for all members of the Palestinian community in Jerusalem, especially women, girls, and other marginalized groups, through legal representation, international advocacy, and economic and legal empowerment. By providing free legal aid, we help Palestinian Jerusalemites maneuver the intricate and bureaucratic Israeli legal system, and through targeted advocacy we aim at challenging the root causes for their suffering, and by doing so contributing to the development of a safe, inclusive, and a resilient Palestinian community in Jerusalem, free from all forms of violence and discrimination.