The Association, founded in 1994, helps to serve community needs in the areas of women's status, education and the environment. The association also assists the social and political struggle for the development and welfare of the population. The Association has established a kindergarten for children of families of limited financials means. Future programs include a demand for the relocation of the industrial estate built near Nahef and an effort to halt the construction of a railway line through land in Nahef and other surrounding Arab villages in the upper Galilee.
The Nahef Development and Welfare Association looks forward to cooperation and assitance from foundations and support in the struggle against appropriation of Arab lands for the Judaization of the Galilee, and helping to build more housing for young couples, as this is a crisis in Arab towns.

Goals

• Improve the status of women;
• Undertaking programs specifically for children;
• Improve the level of education of village residents, decrease the number of dropouts, and promote higher education;
• Foster and initatie environmental, educational and cultural enrichment activities;
• Increase health awareness and develop public health projects;
• Safeguard and promote Arab culture;
• Develop educational platforms for residents, and early childhood development activities;
• Prevent the appropriation of Palestinian land in Nahef, Majd al-Kroum, al-Rami and Deir al-Assad by the Israeli government for nearby Jewish settlements.

Main Activities

• Women's groups, seminars, and workshops including lectures on issues of women's status;
• Lectures and field trips to raise environmental awareness;
• Organizing protests in front of the local council, and negotiations with local authroities to build new apartments for young couples needing accommodation;
• Public health survey undertaken in the village;
• Supplementary education for children in need;
• Dabkeh (traditional Palestinian folk dancing) classes for girls;
• Lobbying against the establishment of a train line which will appropriate Arab lands;
• Co-existence project drama workhops involving children from Nahef and the nearby Jewish settlement, Karma'il.