A group of young Palestinians from the West Bank will arrive in Cornwall on Friday for a two-week goodwill trip to the UK.

They will attend an informal public meeting at Truro’s Hendra Hall on Sunday, to voice their feelings about the realities of life under occupation; and will enjoy a programme of activities including skateboarding, arts and crafts in Falmouth on Saturday, a family fun day in Mawgan Porth on Sunday, and school and youth group visits on Monday.

Activities have been paid for by local fundraising events including a sponsored walk on Bodmin Moor and a fundraising dinner at Jaipur in Perranporth.

The delegation will be made up of seven 13- to 16-year-olds, whose day-to-day lives in areas such as Hebron and Nablus are routinely hampered by violence and travel restrictions. For most of them, this will be their first experience of travel outside the Occupied Territories, and obtaining their visas to travel was no easy task.

The initiative is part of the Building Hope/Voices From Palestine project led by human rights charity CADFA, which has facilitated visits to and from Palestine for nearly 20 years to highlight the importance of human rights.

For more details, email [email protected] or visit CADFA.org