Impact of Our Collaboration with Refugee-Led & Community Partners



Protection and Self-Reliance
Donate for Gaza aid on PayPal or GoFundMe. Over 193,894 internally displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip have received hot food, water, hygiene, psychosocial support and other relief through RPI aid to long-time Middle East partner Kids Paradise and other implementing partners. Aid programs “Malak Fund” and “Gaza Giving” focus primarily on women, children and elderly. Since 2015, RPI has supported its refugee-led charity partners to aid over half a million war-affected civilians in northern Syria, Ukraine, southern Turkey and Lebanon. RPI staff & volunteers have made over a dozen trips into Ukraine to deliver aid to displaced orphans, children with disabilities, shelters & hospitals. RPI sells crafts made by displaced women trained in the Middle East & Ukraine with RPI’s funding & training partners MAPS, KP & Way Home Odessa Charity. See WBZ-TV CBS Boston’s interview with RPI in Dec. 2024.
Health and Education
In Ukraine, traveling RPI staff and Romanian volunteers have driven medical equipment & supplies to 7 medical institutions aiding war-affected civilians including in Kherson, Ukraine & supported Ukrainian-run newborn medical evacuations. Thanks to refugee-led implementing partners in Turkey and Iraq, RPI supports children and women with acute malnutrition, medical and maternity needs in northern Syria. In Syrian camps in Lebanon, refugee children are in non-formal primary schools run by refugee-led partner MAPS thanks to RPI’s shoppers of amigurumi crafts made by refugee mothers trained with RPI’s funding. RPI has supported partner-run civilian evacuations and psychosocial care in the Middle East and Ukraine. After the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes, RPI-supported medical care for 80,000 people through our Turkey-based refugee-led partners.
Shelter Conditions
RPI has supported winterization shelter programs for displaced families in northern Syria’s informal camps since 2015 through refugee-led charities in Turkey. With these same charity partners, RPI-funded tents, blankets & insulation for Turkish & Syrian survivors of the 2023 earthquakes. IDPs in Gaza have received emergency shelter insulation materials, floor mats, and heating supplies in the 2024-2025 winter. In 2025, RPI continues to ship humanitarian aid to frontline civilians in Ukraine. In the past, RPI has driven generators, kitchen equipment and beds to shelters for displaced civilians, subsidize rent for displaced orphans & foster parents & aided victims of war-damaged housing with community partners. Earlier RPI-aided projects in the Middle East include upgrading urban housing for IDPs. Thank you to our generous supporters.