Protection and Self-Reliance
Donate for Gaza aid on PayPal or GoFundMe. Over 174,580 internally displaced women & children in Gaza’s camps have received cooked meals, food rations, water, psychosocial support or insecticide through RPI aid to long-time Middle East partner Kids Paradise for projects “Malak Fund” and “Gaza Giving.” 12 community kitchens have been relocated from Rafah & consolidated in the ruins of West Khan Younis in Al-Mawasi. Food from Jordan has been delivered to civilians in northern Gaza in partnership with KP, Molham Volunteering Team and the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization. Since 2015, RPI has also supported its refugee-led charity partners to aid over half a million war-displaced Syrians & disaster victims of other nationalities across northern Syria, Lebanon & southern Turkey. RPI staff & volunteers drive into Ukraine from Romania to deliver aid to displaced orphans, children with disabilities, shelters & hospitals. RPI sells crafts made by refugee women trained with RPI’s funding & training partners MAPS, KP & Way Home Odessa Charity. Shop from RPI at Boston’s 2024 Holiday Market in Snowport Nov. 10 – Dec. 29!
Health and Education
In Ukraine, traveling RPI staff and Romanian volunteers have driven medical equipment & supplies to 7 medical institutions aiding war-affected civilians & supported Ukrainian-run newborn medical evacuations. Thanks to refugee-led implementing partners in Turkey and Iraq, RPI supports children and women with acute malnutrition 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 internal evacuations and pediatric psychosocial care in Gaza through partner Kids Paradise. RPI is exploring possible support to mental health providers for women on both sides of the devastating Israel-Gaza war. 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 reached Turkish & Syrian survivors of the 2023 earthquakes. In Ukraine, traveling RPI staff and volunteers drive aid (generators, kitchen equipment, beds) to shelters for displaced civilians, subsidize rent for displaced orphans & foster parents & aid victims of war-damaged housing with community partners. Earlier RPI-aided projects in the Middle East included upgrading urban housing for IDPs & subsidizing rent for refugees. Thank you to our generous supporters & community-led partners for making these humanitarian efforts possible.
The Impact of Our Collaboration with Refugee-Led & Grassroots Partners