One year of relentless bombings, starvation, displacement, and trauma. Families in Gaza have endured an entire year of brutal violence, without time or safety to process the trauma of the killings, loss of homes and loved ones.
While we continue our essential emergency projects – providing nutritious food, clean water, and medical care to families, we’re also expanding our work to supporting communities for a more hopeful future though education, waste management, and broader healthcare. These are just some of the vital projects we’re delivering in Gaza:
$50 – Provide five people in Jabalia refugee camp with treatment and medication at our health centre.
$50 – Give 5 hot meat-based meals to people facing starvation in Gaza and we’ll DOUBLE YOUR DONATION with 5 more.
$138 – Provide clean drinking water to 20 people for an entire month.
$165 – Ensure nourishing meals for a family with a month-long food parcel. Donate and we’ll DOUBLE YOUR DONATION.
$540 - Provide one child with education for one semester through our mobile schools.
After a year of conflict, over 42,000 Palestinians have been killed – including more than 16,000 children. More than 97,000 people have been wounded, and at least 10,000 are thought to be buried under rubble. Over the past year, many have been killed by secondary causes, such as sicknesses that went untreated because of the attacks. One in five people in Gaza is facing starvation.
Giving hope amid destruction
It’s impossible to overstate the utter destruction that’s still going on in Gaza. Each day more people are dismembered, more children are orphaned, more families forced to flee once again.
But after a year of devastation, much more is needed than simply food and water. While we continue to help families to meet their basic needs with nutritious meals and consistent clean water, we also ask that our supporters help us to provide hope for the future.
We’re launching 3 new projects to improve living conditions, support education, and spread hope.
1. Education
Our 8 mobile schools project will help children to regain their lost education, have a sense of normality and to make friends. Elemntary school-aged boys and girls will have access to English, Arabic, Math and Science classes, as well as a psychotherapist to provide counselling, and psychosocial activities to allow them to play and simply be children.
2. Healthcare and disease
Our health centre in northern Gaza to support around 3,750 people each month, with 10 outpatient clinics. Only 11 out of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are functioning in any capacity and the few hospitals left standing are struggling to treat patients without enough medicine, anaesthesia, doctors, or equipment.
Telehealth & Mental Health
We’ll also be launching a telehealth project which will provide phone consultations to allow sick people to have easy access to specialist doctors, while reducing the load on overstretched health staff in Gaza. Our mental health project will help people to cope with the ongoing trauma they’re experiencing, and our new health centre will support 4,000 people per month.
Hospital Construction
We’ll also be launching a flagship hospital construction project, supporting Gaza’s destroyed healthcare system while giving doctors a place to treat injured and sick people.
Waste Management
Since the sewage system has been decimated, we’re also working to begin a solid waste management project, helping to reduce the risk of disease and sickness, and helping communities to stay clean.
Reconstruction
While we continue to advocate for a ceasefire, and pray for the war to end immediately, we’re also launching a reconstruction Amanah fund, where you can pledge your support to Gaza’s reconstruction. When the war ends, with your help, we’ll be able to immediately jump into gear to rebuild the damage and help families to begin to recover.
Help us to provide the foundations for a better future in Gaza. Support our projects of hope today.
Working with our partners Jordan’s Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), we shipped 5 planes and 3 containers of humanitarian aid, including winter clothing from Jordan to our warehouse in Gaza.
We provided winter clothing to displaced families struggling to stay warm in Gaza.
The Human Appeal Desalination Plant, the largest in Rafah governorate, is now operational, benefitting over 30,000 local inhabitants with improved water quality in the aftermath of recent displacement.
Our medical shipment reached Gaza and we were able to distribute critical medical supplies to Aouda hospital.
Amidst this crisis, Human Appeal is making a difference. Our Water Desalination Plant, the largest in Rafah Governorate, is now operational. Located in the Eastern Gaza Strip, it produces 57,000 litres of clean water every hour.
We continued to distribute hundreds of food parcels and hygiene kits to displaced Palestinians seeking shelter in the central Gaza.
We delivered food parcels, baby formula, nappies/diapers, and other essential items to the paediatric and intensive care departments at Nasser Hospital in South Gaza.
Gaza team deliver fresh bread to displaced families.
We're the only charity operating mobile clinics, which are bringing vital medical aid.
We're the only charity delivering 3x3 metre fire-resistant and waterproof tents in 29 UN sheltered schools.
Youngster proudly displays freshly baked flatbread.
Transformative day for displaced children with Papa Smurf and Mickey Mouse.
Human Appeal staff members uplift children in Gaza.
We distributed flour to displaced families who struggle to access food amid the ongoing bombardments.
Eid Al-Fitr - Human Appeal distributed hundreds of Eid packs to children in Gaza, including 744 toys and 334 boxes of cookies, and carried out activities to lift the spirits of children.
Human Appeal has been providing mobile clinic services in Gaza, with the clinic visiting a different shelter school each week, providing treatment to displaced families that cannot access healthcare.
We provided 47, 835 hot meals in the first 10 days of Ramadan.
We provided 3,631 food parcels in the first 10 days of Ramadan.
We distributed 194,118 hot meals in the second 10 days of Ramadan.
Food Parcels Week 2
We distributed 333,120 hot meals in the final 10 days of Ramadan.
We distributed 8,529 food parcels in the final 10 days of Ramadan.
Your impact since October 9
Since October 9, you’ve helped us to support over 6,105,277 people in Gaza - that’s higher than the population of Gaza because we’ve helped so many people many times over.
With over 32 years of experience in Gaza, we have the expertise and determination to navigate through barriers, source supplies locally, and deliver critical aid to those in need. Even as the war on Gaza continues, our heroic staff in Gaza is able to run incredible projects.
During Ramadan, we helped over 700,000 people, and we delivered your Qurbani to almost 17,000 people, despite the siege and closed borders. Over the past year, we’ve begun the process of sponsoring 4,000 new orphans in Gaza, and we’ve delivered hot meals to over 2 million people.
Find out how your donations are supporting Palestinians.
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Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: "The likeness of the believers in regard to mutual love, mercy, and kindness is that of a body. When any part aches, the whole body aches."
Source - Bukhari
One year on you can still make a difference. Here are 3 important ways you can help us continue our lifesaving work:
Displaced families in Gaza still need help to access food and basic necessities. One year later, it’s our duty to help give them the resources they need desperately, and reignite hope for a better future. Our team is on the ground providing healthcare, waste management and education. Together, let’s plant seeds of hope.
Donate nowHuman Appeal is committed to providing aid in the country or program that you select. In the event we complete the program, exceed the required funds, or are denied access to a particular country for reasons beyond our control, Human Appeal reserves the right to reallocate your donation to another program where it is needed most. Please note that items in Gaza are subject to change regularly; in the event that we cannot secure specific items, we will instruct for items that are very similar.
