Gaza Relief Programs: Malak Fund & Gaza Giving
Refugee Protection International, Kids Paradise & Partners (2024 – 2025)
Project Summary: 193,894 primarily women, children & elderly have been aided in North Gaza (Gaza City and surroundings), Central Gaza (Deir Al-Balah) and South Gaza (Khan Younis and Rafah) through humanitarian programs “Malak Fund” and “Gaza Giving” overseen, mentored and funded by Refugee Protection International (RPI) and implemented in the region by long-time Middle East partner charity Kids Paradise (originally based in Turkey), Molham Volunteering Team, Rahma Worldwide, and with the collaboration of the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Foundation.
Thanks to our generous supporters, community kitchens under the “Malak Fund” program have cooked daily hot meals for tens of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Gaza Strip, beginning in Rafah and then moving to west Khan Younis. Under this program and “Gaza Giving”, access to potable water has been improved and hygiene items, fruit, vegetables, insecticide, gas for cooking, pediatric psychosocial support and MPCA has been provided to IDPs. Over the 2024 – 2025 winter, these vital programs delivered basic shelter insulation materials, floor mats, blankets, winter clothing and thermal wear, as well as heating supplies when feasible, to vulnerable displaced persons sheltering in makeshift tents or damaged housing.
By the height of the 11-week Israeli blockade from March 2 to May 19, 2025 on the entry into Gaza of all humanitarian aid, the RPI-supported Malak Fund community kitchen in Khan Younis had to close its doors to the public due to the severe scarcity of food ingredients and cooking materials. With the blockade being slowly lifted, RPI-funded aid is near the Egyptian border awaiting entry into Gaza and more is being procured. We need continued donations to ease the threat of starvation among the most vulnerable civilians.
We are devastated to share that four of our implementing partner’s volunteers died on October 9, 2024 in the Israeli attacks on Jabalia Camp in North Gaza. They had just finished distributing food and water with our funding when the strikes occurred. There was no safe place to take shelter. Earlier this year, Malak Fada, an internally displaced Palestinian woman, lost several relatives, while she was away from her tent working at the RPI-funded KP Malak Fund community kitchen. Our hearts go out to these victims, as well as the inconceivable number of children and other civilians who have lost their lives in this war. With the resumption of airstrikes on Gaza on March 18, 2025, nine KP volunteers went missing temporarily. On May 20, 2025, our partner’s community worker was out looking for food when he was injured by a blast and rushed to the Nasser Hospital only to find it lacking in antibiotics and burn medications due to the recent aid blockade.
Most recently, Malak Fada’s neighbors, the al-Najjar family in Khan Younis lost 9 of their 10 children, ages one to 12-years-old in a single airstrike on their home on May 23, 2025. Both parents are doctors, and their mother, pediatrician Dr. Alaa al-Najjar was at the Nasser hospital complex treating other war-injured children when she learned of the strike. BBC news has verified external video footage of “small burned bodies lifted from the rubble” of al-Najjar’s home. The world has witnessed this Palestinian mother weeping and embracing her shrouded children in an image too painful for words. We pray for an urgent resumption of the ceasefire, the safety of all civilians, and a dignified return of the hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel.
Aid convoy from Jordan brings much needed food to North Gaza under our joint program (2024)
Project Details: 12 community kitchens were set up in Rafah by the RPI-funded KP Malak Fund Program. Following the May 6, 2024 Israeli evacuation orders to civilians in parts of Rafah, these kitchens were relocated & consolidated in the ruins of West Khan Younis in Al-Mawasi “humanitarian zone.”
Hot meal distribution continues amid the wreckage of west Khan Younis. The provision of community water tanks, water well repairs and extension piping to Gaza’s camps under the RPI-KP Gaza Relief Programs have been critical as children are falling ill from lack of clean water. Israeli evacuation orders issued July 1,2024 for civilians in east Khan Younis caused further displacement and pressure on the RPI-KP Malak Fund community kitchen and on the RPI-KP Gaza Giving distribution of fresh fruits, vegetables, hygiene supplies and other relief items, through Nour and other community members.
Our humanitarian collaboration with Kids Paradise expanded to support partners Molham Volunteering Team to procure food from Jordan and fund the Jordan Hashemite Charitable Organization to transport the aid to a northern Gaza-Israel border crossing. While the aid convoy was delayed by the IDF for close to 2 weeks at the northern crossing, it did enter into North Gaza on August 30, 2024. These vital food supplies were delivered under the RPI-KP Gaza Relief Programs to hunger-stricken civilians in North Gaza – including in Jabalia camp – and Gaza City. RPI funding has since supported the procurement in Egypt of aid supplies intended for Gaza with charity partner Rahma Worldwide. These supplies were warehoused for months outside Gaza’s southern border due to the 11-week Israeli aid blockade on Gaza. RPI and KP are working hard to ensure more aid urgently reaches Gaza.
RPI-KP Gaza Giving Program in war-torn Gaza (2024)
Background: RPI has supported humanitarian aid to the Middle East since the height of the Syrian war in 2015. RPI has collaborated with Kids Paradise since 2019 on improving relief aid, livelihoods, and psychosocial well-being in war-torn northwest Syria and for victims of the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey & Syria. Based in southern Turkey, Kids Paradise was founded by refugee volunteers. In America, RPI sells crafts made by displaced Syrian women trained in a joint humanitarian self-reliance program with Kids Paradise and other refugee-led partners. We are humbled to partner on aiding women, children & the elderly in Gaza. We also hope for an imminent ceasefire, release of hostages & respect for International Humanitarian Law by all parties to the Israel-Gaza war. No child should have to witness such tragedy and loss.
Gaza’s children participating in psychosocial support activities made possible by our giving partners (RPI-KP 2024)
How to Give: We welcome donations through Refugee Protection International’s main donate button (click “Gaza emergency relief”) or through one of 6 fundraising campaigns (2 ongoing and 4 past) that have supported our Gaza relief efforts with KP and partners. Donation checks made out to “Refugee Protection International” may be mailed to Refugee Protection International, PO Box 624, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. Thank you for your generosity.
Gaza Emergency Relief (PayPal, Credit or Debit Card)
Malak Fund (PayPal, Credit or Debit Card)
Gaza Giving (PayPal, Credit or Debit Card)
Join Malak’s Lifeline for Gaza IDPs (GoFundMe – Completed)
Saving lives from the front lines (GoFundMe – Completed)
Past Campaign: Support Malak Mission in Gaza (GoFundMe – Completed)
