Gaza Relief Programs: Malak Fund & Gaza Giving
Refugee Protection International, Kids Paradise & Partners (2024)
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 Refugee Protection International’s support to charitable nonprofit partners Kids Paradise organization (based in Turkey), Molham Volunteering Team, Rahma Worldwide, and indirectly to the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization.
Refugee Protection International (RPI)’s primary implementing partner on these Gaza relief programs “Malak Fund” and “Gaza Giving” is our longtime Middle East partner Kids Paradise (KP). 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 since early 2024, beginning in Rafah and then moving to west Khan Younis. Hot food has been distributed primarily to women, children and the elderly. Under this program and “Gaza Giving”, access to potable water has been improved for IDPs, while hygiene items, fresh fruit and vegetables, insecticide, gas for cooking, psychosocial support and MPCA has been provided to internally displaced persons (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. Continued donations are needed to prepare for a surge in humanitarian aid once the March 2, 2025 aid blockade will have been lifted on the Gaza Strip.
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, an internally displaced Palestinian woman, lost relatives. She herself was spared while 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. With the resumption of airstrikes on Gaza on March 18, 2025, we learned that 9 more KP volunteers have gone missing. We pray for their safety, the resumption of the ceasefire, the dignified return of hostages, and for the end of the humanitarian blockade.
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. 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 RPI funding and the logistical support of Rahma Worldwide.
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)
