Camps Breakerz - Unrwa - Peace starts here

I find freedom in breakdancing I feel free in my own country When I perform it makes people happy They feel the same as me at that moment They feel free I was in university in 2004 That's where I met my friend and brother, Mohammed also known as Funk We got along really well He has a lot of talent, which is rare to find in Gaza We started to dance together for fun Then we started the group Everyone saw us as a bunch of guys with nothing better to do with their lives but breakdance But that's not it. We were determined to prove ourselves and to show them that we do a lot of things that they don't like supporting children and their families Plus we are all doing well in our everyday life We work with a lot of young guys to help them develop We try to help them change the way they are thinking Many of them come to us with complicated issues Thoughts of suicide and drug abuse I know we are not psychologists but we are able to get through to some of these guys and have them develop not only in breakdancing but in their personal lives as well We've discovered that we are needed by our community more than the breakdancing world I live under siege in Gaza Why? Why is this happening to us? We are normal people like everyone else We have our own dreams for the future But it is hard to think about your future When you are living in a situation like this We don't want to be in a situation where we wait for electricity every day or tomorrow for petrol, and then war We hope things change for the better and that we start to feel our worth There has to be hope in life We can't just shut our lives down Seriously, I hope that everyone in Gaza comes out of the depression that they are in Everyone goes through depression - even I do But I treat it with my art I have a lot of ambition and big dreams My biggest dream is for us to leave Gaza and tour the world and participate in festivals and have performances to let everyone know what Gaza is like People here love life and they're not all bad No, we Palestinians have lives and have many other things We don't live out in a desert On the contrary, life is beautiful in Gaza Another dream of mine is to build a big centre here to train kids how to breakdance and create more generations of break-dancers so that breakdance stays alive in Gaza