The hotel’s organizers aim to highlight the positive role of people with special needs in society.
Also, working in the hotel for workers with special needs, was an opportunity to demonstrate the ability to overcome disability and the negative view of society.
The hotel in words
- The hotel is a heritage landmark in Bethlehem.
- Hotel building built "together for life" More than 130 years ago.
- Hotel workers view their work as an outlet for the love of life.
- The hotel owners seek to change the prevailing social stereotype about people with special needs.
- hotel "together for life" Alfred with his staff next to the Church of the Nativity
Distinguished story
The story of this distinguished hotel began from an old heritage house that today turned into a named hotel "together for life".
hotel "together for life" He accepted the challenge and took it upon themselves to break the stereotypical view of people with special needs that they are dependents who are not fit for work, and that their place is the corners of cold houses that lack embracing and containment. But the result was Bilal’s smile as he greeted the guests, and Maram’s kindness in preparing and serving the food.
Do not separate them during their work from employees of a five-star hotel, who work hard, arrange rooms, attend tables, and move around the hotel corridors as if it were the only space of freedom that the earth gave them when the circles of disabilities narrowed them and their peers.
Face to face with an inherited thinking that almost carried them to a world of exceptions and margins, these people of determination broke the locks, and went out to declare themselves: We are the capable, we are like you or more.. This is then the warm hotel for them, but the idea for those who suggested it was not easy to give birth Nor soft.
Mahira Gharib, Foundation and Hotel Manager, said: "together for life" This unique hotel with its staff is the neighbor of the Church of the Nativity.. as if it is identical with it in offering a space of psychological comfort and inner peace. The result is 12 rooms to receive visitors, old furniture and walls that bear the history of a building that is more than one hundred and thirty years old.. It was recorded as one of the 10 preserved heritage buildings. As for these works of sheep’s wool, they are made by Bilal and Maram colleagues in the Ma’an Life Foundation as the core of this hotel project .
Gharib also considered that this hotel is still groping its way towards registering itself on the tourism map in Bethlehem. Pilgrims of the Church of the Nativity and visitors to the city.
From the idea of the narrow door of the Church of the Nativity, which is humility and bowing in respect and sanctification of the place and the consolidation of the idea of equality, the Ma’an Hotel for life was launched as a model for accepting and respecting people with disabilities if the idea was humble and the view of them stems from respect and belief in their abilities and not from the angle of sympathy or ostracism.
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What distinguishes this hotel and makes it unique is that its employees are People of determination Those whose mental disability does not deter them from performing work that the healthy ones do, if the conditions are conducive to that.
The hotel’s organizers aim to highlight the positive role of people with special needs in society.
Also, working in the hotel for workers with special needs, was an opportunity to demonstrate the ability to overcome disability and the negative view of society.
The hotel in words
- The hotel is a heritage landmark in Bethlehem.
- The “Together for Life” hotel building was built more than 130 years ago.
- Hotel workers view their work as an outlet for the love of life.
- The hotel owners seek to change the prevailing social stereotype about people with special needs.
- The unique “Together for Life” hotel with its staff adjacent to the Church of the Nativity
Distinguished story
The story of this distinguished hotel started from an old heritage house that has been transformed today into a hotel called “Together for Life”.
The “Together for Life” hotel accepted the challenge and took it upon themselves to break the stereotypical view of people with special needs that they are dependents who are not fit to work, and that their place is in the corners of cold houses that lack embrace and containment. But the result was Bilal’s smile as he greeted the guests, and Maram’s kindness in preparing and serving the food.
Do not separate them during their work from employees of a five-star hotel, who work hard, arrange rooms, attend tables, and move around the hotel corridors as if it were the only space of freedom that the earth gave them when the circles of disabilities narrowed them and their peers.
Face to face with an inherited thinking that almost carried them to a world of exceptions and margins, these people of determination broke the locks, and went out to declare themselves: We are the capable, we are like you or more.. This is then the warm hotel for them, but the idea for those who suggested it was not easy to give birth Nor soft.
Mahira Ghareeb, director of the “Together for Life” hotel and establishment, said that this unique hotel, with its staff, is the neighbor of the Church of the Nativity… as if it identifies with it in offering a space of psychological comfort and inner peace. The result is 12 rooms to receive visitors, old furniture and walls that bear the history of a building that is more than one hundred and thirty years old.. It was recorded as one of the 10 preserved heritage buildings. As for these works of sheep’s wool, they are made by Bilal and Maram colleagues in the Ma’an Life Foundation as the core of this hotel project .
Gharib also considered that this hotel is still groping its way towards registering itself on the tourism map in Bethlehem. Pilgrims of the Church of the Nativity and visitors to the city.
From the idea of the narrow door of the Church of the Nativity, which is humility and bowing in respect and sanctification of the place and the consolidation of the idea of equality, the Ma’an Hotel for life was launched as a model for accepting and respecting people with disabilities if the idea was humble and the view of them stems from respect and belief in their abilities and not from the angle of sympathy or ostracism.