Gaza Relief Programs: Malak Fund & Gaza Giving
Refugee Protection International, Kids Paradise & Partners (2024)
Project Summary: 175,000 primarily women, children & elderly have been aided in North Gaza, Gaza City, Khan Younis & Rafah through Refugee Protection International’s support to Kids Paradise & partners Molham Volunteering Team & thereby the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization.
Refugee Protection International (RPI) and long-time Middle East partner Kids Paradise (KP) support community members in Gaza, including Malak Fada and Nour Alnajjar to cook and distribute hot food, water, hygiene items, fresh fruit & vegetables, insecticide, gas for cooking & psychosocial support to internally displaced persons (IDPs). Donations are needed to purchase tents, winter clothing & blankets.
We are devastated to share that 4 of our implementing partner’s volunteers died on October 9, 2024 in the Israeli attacks on Jabalia Camp in North Gaza. These KP volunteers had just finished distributing bread and water with RPI funding when the strikes occurred. There was no safe place to take shelter. Earlier this year, Malak Fada herself lost relatives while she was away from her tent working at the RPI-funded KP 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.
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.
RPI-KP program expanded to support partners Molham Volunteering Team to procure food from Jordan and fund the Jordan Hashemite Charitable Organization to transport the aid to the northern Gaza-Israel border crossing. While the aid convoy was delayed by the IDF 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. Humanitarian access to Gaza from the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is limited, but KP volunteers are in Egypt to source winterization supplies for Gaza with other partners in the RPI-KP Gaza Relief Programs.
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: 6 donation campaigns support our Gaza relief programs with KP and partners. Most recent campaigns are below. Thank you to all of our generous supporters.
Gaza Giving (PayPal)
Malak Fund (PayPal)
Join Malak’s Lifeline for Gaza IDPs (GoFundMe)
Saving lives from the front lines (GoFundMe)
Past Campaign: Support Malak Mission in Gaza (GoFundMe – Completed)
