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Basic Needs Grant Recipients
2012
Al Jenoub Society for Women's Health
Project: Assisting needy families during a power outage
Founded: 2005
Location: Rafah, Gaza
The suffering of the Palestinian people has increased as a result of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, especially after the recent war on Gaza which led to the interruption of continuous power. Continuous cutting of power affects their lives and leads to an inability to study at home, especially during the night hours. This brought the idea or providing poor families in the rural and marginalized areas in Rafah governorate with power chargers to provide light in case of power outages. For the above mentioned reasons, the association distributed these chargers to 180 households in rural and marginalized areas in Rafah governorate.
Water Resource Action Project, Inc. (WRAP)
Project: Pilot rain collection system and environmental education
Founded: 2009
Location: West Bank, Palestine
A grant from The Jerusalem Fund funded the installation of a rainwater collection system and a related environmental education program at the Walajeh Co-Educational Basic School. The Walajeh Co-Ed School is in the village of al Walajeh, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, in Area C. It was built in 2007, has 319 students in grades one through nine, and 19 teachers. While WRAP has successfully undertaken rain collection system installations in East Jerusalem, this was be WRAP’s first project in the West Bank. The system is necessary since this school does not have sufficient water during parts of the year when there is little rainfall and alternative water sources are unreliable or expensive.
Ibn Khaldoun Society for Community Development (IKSCD)
Project: Desalination plant; drinking water based on reverse osmosis for children in elementary school
Founded: 2012
Location: Biet Lahia, Northern Gaza
The Gaza Strip in general suffers from a scarcity of safe drinking water. Schools especially lack safe drinking water, which causes many diseases and health problems for children and students. This project sets up a desalination plant to produce 12 cubic meters of drinking water per day according to the health specifications of the World Health Organization (WHO).
American Friends of UNRWA
Project: Emergency school aid in Gaza
Founding: 2005
Location: Khan Younis Elementary School, Gaza
UNRWA’s Gaza Emergency School Feeding Program (ESF) is part of UNRWA’s larger 2012 Emergency Appeal to protect and support the most vulnerable Palestinian refugees living in the West Bank and Gaza. In Gaza where the Israeli blockade has entered its sixth year, the economy has almost completely collapsed, fishing waters and agricultural land are nearly inaccessible, and 95 percent of water there is not clean enough to drink; the population has become severely malnourished. Many kids go to school hungry; some have headaches; others faint in class. Hunger has caused many students to miss school altogether. To mitigate the socio-economic circumstances that create barriers to learning, funding received through ESF was used to provide a daily meal to 3,859 students for 104 school days at Khan Younis Elementary School. The provision of a daily meal ensures that all students have had at least one nutritious meal per day, encouraging academic achievement, and alleviating the economic burden on families.
Future Association for Culture and Development
Project: Large charger lights
Founding: 2005
Location: Al Shoka Area, Gaza
This project focuses on helping people in Rafah area because most of the families of the Gaza strip suffer from difficult economic situations and long periods of power outages. The project helps distribute large charger lights for needy families.
2011
Arab Women's Union of Ramallah
Project: Renovation of plumbing of nursing home for the elderly
Founded: 1956
Location: Ramallah
The nursing home for the elderly in Ramallah was in desperate need of significant renovation. Faulty pipes leaked, flooding contaminated waste water throughout the building and the street. The Jerusalem Fund extended a grant to undertake the renovations, providing a safer and healthier environment for the nursing home’s residents and neighboring community. This new plumbing system has prevented unnecessary exposure to contaminated waste water among elderly residents and has helped reduce illnesses in this already at-risk population.
El-Nahda Association for Development and Growth (NADG)
Project: Locally Grown Produce for families in need
Founded: 2007
Location: Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip
El-Nahda has implemented a program to counter food uncertainty by providing locally grown vegetables (tomatoes, eggplants, lemon, cabbage, carrots, onions and potatoes) to families in need. The Jerusalem Fund's partners at El-Nahda have identified 100 low-income families numbering over 1,000 people to receive this crucial aid. This project also helps the local farmers by purchasing their produce on a weekly basis, and directly benefits the local economy by keeping the flow of money locally in the community.
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education- Haifa
Project: "A Dignified Start"- supplying school bags for disadvantaged Palestinian children in Haifa.
Founded: 2001
Location: The city of Haifa
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education in Haifa (CAAEH) proposed to purchase new backpacks and distribute them to 250 children from low-income families in Haifa. As a result of ongoing discrimination and disregard at both the state and municipal levels, more than 60 percent of Arab children are living in poverty in Israel; moreover, 50% of Arab children in the city of Haifa are poverty-stricken. The backpacks will contain essential, age-appropriate school supplies for students entering the first through eighth grades. This charitable assistance program not only extends local Palestinian families a helpful hand-up at a challenging time of the year, but also provides the staff and board of the CAAEH an important opportunity to engage parents and students at the outset of the fall semester. This allows students and parents to better ascertain their needs so as to formulate effective strategies needed to advocate their rights throughout the academic year. A Jerusalem Fund grant supplied 250 Palestinian pupils an equal starting point for this school year, providing school bags, uniforms and other basic accessories.
American Friends of UNRWA
Founded: 2005
Project: Emergency School Feeding in Gaza
Location: Gaza Strip
This project will support UNRWA’s Gaza Emergency Program, which provides the poorest and most vulnerable Palestine refugees in Gaza with essential humanitarian assistance, most notably through life-sustaining food aid. The project will specifically address the needs of Gaza’s school children, who continue to suffer from a deteriorating socio-economic environment characterized by poverty and conflict. In the children’s daily life, this translates to acute food insecurity, lack of material resources to support their education, and often times a difficult learning environment at home which can contribute to poor academic performance. This project will provide daily meals to 3,859 students for a period of 104 school days. The Jerusalem Fund supported this project because the provision of a daily meal ensures that all students have had at least one nutritious meal per day, encouraging academic achievement, and alleviating the burden on families suffering from the negative impact of deepening poverty.
2010
Ahali Rafah Charitable Association
Project: Winter warm campaign
Founded: 2000
Location: Rafah, Gaza
This project focuses on helping affected people in Rafah area at the beginning of the winter season as most of the Palestinian families suffer from dire economical situation, frequent power outage and fuel shortage. Making winters cold brutal especially on children. The project will help bring some warmth to a number of families that has lost their homes. The Jerusalem Fund grant will distribute blankets on more than 100 poor families who affected in the last war in Gaza strip.
Al Nahda Association for Development and Growth (NADG)
Project: To provide food packages for poor families
Founded: 2007
Location: Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip
With the continuing Israel siege on Gaza and increased economic hardship, high unemployment and crumbling economy. The project will achieve many goals which will provide for poor families suffering from the blockade imposed on Gaza. During this military campaign, many families could not provide for their children. The recent statistics of the United Nations reports 80 percent poverty rate in the Gaza Strip—the highest it has ever been. The Jerusalem fund gave a grant to distribute food packages on the poorest families as identified by our local partners. Each family received a package of flour, cooking oil, canned meat, chicken stock, rice and tea to help alleviate some of the suffering.
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education- Haifa
Project: "Every Child Deserves to Start the School Year Respectfully"- supplying school bags for disadvantaged Palestinian children in Haifa.
Founded: 2001
Location: The city of Haifa
The Committee works to advance the Arab education in Haifa. As a result of an ongoing discrimination and disregard at both the state and Municipality levels, more than 60 percent off Arab children are living in poverty in Israel; moreover 50% of Arab children in the city of Haifa are poverty-stricken. The children's poor conditions drastically affect their schooling, their inability to afford basic school supplies prevent them from fully participating in school and suffer from the stigma of being different than other well-to-do students. This project was initiated in 2006 and the Jerusalem Fund has given to this project in previous years. This year is no different, A Jerusalem Fund grant supplied 200 Palestinian pupils were given an equal starting point for this school year, providing school bags, uniforms and other basic accessories.
Ibn-Khaldoun Society For Community Development
Project: Capacity building for kindergarten governess
Founded: 2002
Location: Northern Gaza District
No one discredits the importance of education for children, and further, the significance of providing a solid educational foundation especially during the formative years. Many Gaza kindergartens, however, are not meeting the needs of their students and cannot provide the resources the teachers need to adequately provide a foundational education for the children.
El-Nahda Association for Development and Growth (NADG)
Founded: 2007
Location: Northern Gaza District
The goal for El-Nahda Association was to identify 150 low-income families with toddlers. A grant from The Jerusalem Fund allowed for the purchase and distribution of health kits which included four cans of baby formula, shampoo, baby powder, diapers, ointment for skin treatment and a toy. Initiatives such as these increase the capacity of local organizations to meet the needs of the people of Gaza, especially the children.
2008
Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education in Haifa
Founded: 2001
Project: School Supplies for Palestinian Children in Haifa
Founded: Haifa
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education in Haifa supplied disadvantaged students with school supplies. As a result of an ongoing discrimination and disregard at both the state and municipality levels, over 60 percent of Arab children are living in poverty in Israel. Moreover 50 percent of Arab children in the city of Haifa are poverty-stricken. The children's poor conditions drastically affect their schooling and their inability to afford basic school supplies prevents them from fully participating in school. The Jerusalem Fund grant equipped 200 Palestinian pupils with an equal starting point for this school year providing school bags, uniforms and other basic accessories.
2004
Atta Services to the Aged
Founded: Ramallah
Atta Services seeks to address issues affecting elderly Palestinians, including their mental and physical health as well as social well-being. Atta Services' Meals on Wheels Program, for example, provides hot meals to the aged in the Ramallah area at least three times a week. This program is an integral part of Atta's outreach program, which also facilitates doctor visits, house cleaning, and visits by Atta Services' staff. In the midst of the harsh Israeli occupation regime, Atta proposed an emergency relief program to alleviate the critical conditions that Palestinians have had to face. Re-starting its Outreach Community Services after the invasion of the Israeli army into the already occupied West Bank, Atta focused on a triad of activities: (1) medical and psychological support; (2) food and sanitation; (3) home repairs and care. The Jerusalem Fund supports the breadth of its programs, but in particular, the Meals on Wheels program to at least 300 beneficiaries on a monthly basis.
Al Jenoub Society for Women's Health
Project: Assisting needy families during a power outage
Founded: 2005
Location: Rafah, Gaza
The suffering of the Palestinian people has increased as a result of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, especially after the recent war on Gaza which led to the interruption of continuous power. Continuous cutting of power affects their lives and leads to an inability to study at home, especially during the night hours. This brought the idea or providing poor families in the rural and marginalized areas in Rafah governorate with power chargers to provide light in case of power outages. For the above mentioned reasons, the association distributed these chargers to 180 households in rural and marginalized areas in Rafah governorate.
Water Resource Action Project, Inc. (WRAP)
Project: Pilot rain collection system and environmental education
Founded: 2009
Location: West Bank, Palestine
A grant from The Jerusalem Fund funded the installation of a rainwater collection system and a related environmental education program at the Walajeh Co-Educational Basic School. The Walajeh Co-Ed School is in the village of al Walajeh, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, in Area C. It was built in 2007, has 319 students in grades one through nine, and 19 teachers. While WRAP has successfully undertaken rain collection system installations in East Jerusalem, this was be WRAP’s first project in the West Bank. The system is necessary since this school does not have sufficient water during parts of the year when there is little rainfall and alternative water sources are unreliable or expensive.
Ibn Khaldoun Society for Community Development (IKSCD)
Project: Desalination plant; drinking water based on reverse osmosis for children in elementary school
Founded: 2012
Location: Biet Lahia, Northern Gaza
The Gaza Strip in general suffers from a scarcity of safe drinking water. Schools especially lack safe drinking water, which causes many diseases and health problems for children and students. This project sets up a desalination plant to produce 12 cubic meters of drinking water per day according to the health specifications of the World Health Organization (WHO).
American Friends of UNRWA
Project: Emergency school aid in Gaza
Founding: 2005
Location: Khan Younis Elementary School, Gaza
UNRWA’s Gaza Emergency School Feeding Program (ESF) is part of UNRWA’s larger 2012 Emergency Appeal to protect and support the most vulnerable Palestinian refugees living in the West Bank and Gaza. In Gaza where the Israeli blockade has entered its sixth year, the economy has almost completely collapsed, fishing waters and agricultural land are nearly inaccessible, and 95 percent of water there is not clean enough to drink; the population has become severely malnourished. Many kids go to school hungry; some have headaches; others faint in class. Hunger has caused many students to miss school altogether. To mitigate the socio-economic circumstances that create barriers to learning, funding received through ESF was used to provide a daily meal to 3,859 students for 104 school days at Khan Younis Elementary School. The provision of a daily meal ensures that all students have had at least one nutritious meal per day, encouraging academic achievement, and alleviating the economic burden on families.
Future Association for Culture and Development
Project: Large charger lights
Founding: 2005
Location: Al Shoka Area, Gaza
This project focuses on helping people in Rafah area because most of the families of the Gaza strip suffer from difficult economic situations and long periods of power outages. The project helps distribute large charger lights for needy families.
2011
Arab Women's Union of Ramallah
Project: Renovation of plumbing of nursing home for the elderly
Founded: 1956
Location: Ramallah
The nursing home for the elderly in Ramallah was in desperate need of significant renovation. Faulty pipes leaked, flooding contaminated waste water throughout the building and the street. The Jerusalem Fund extended a grant to undertake the renovations, providing a safer and healthier environment for the nursing home’s residents and neighboring community. This new plumbing system has prevented unnecessary exposure to contaminated waste water among elderly residents and has helped reduce illnesses in this already at-risk population.
El-Nahda Association for Development and Growth (NADG)
Project: Locally Grown Produce for families in need
Founded: 2007
Location: Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip
El-Nahda has implemented a program to counter food uncertainty by providing locally grown vegetables (tomatoes, eggplants, lemon, cabbage, carrots, onions and potatoes) to families in need. The Jerusalem Fund's partners at El-Nahda have identified 100 low-income families numbering over 1,000 people to receive this crucial aid. This project also helps the local farmers by purchasing their produce on a weekly basis, and directly benefits the local economy by keeping the flow of money locally in the community.
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education- Haifa
Project: "A Dignified Start"- supplying school bags for disadvantaged Palestinian children in Haifa.
Founded: 2001
Location: The city of Haifa
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education in Haifa (CAAEH) proposed to purchase new backpacks and distribute them to 250 children from low-income families in Haifa. As a result of ongoing discrimination and disregard at both the state and municipal levels, more than 60 percent of Arab children are living in poverty in Israel; moreover, 50% of Arab children in the city of Haifa are poverty-stricken. The backpacks will contain essential, age-appropriate school supplies for students entering the first through eighth grades. This charitable assistance program not only extends local Palestinian families a helpful hand-up at a challenging time of the year, but also provides the staff and board of the CAAEH an important opportunity to engage parents and students at the outset of the fall semester. This allows students and parents to better ascertain their needs so as to formulate effective strategies needed to advocate their rights throughout the academic year. A Jerusalem Fund grant supplied 250 Palestinian pupils an equal starting point for this school year, providing school bags, uniforms and other basic accessories.
American Friends of UNRWA
Founded: 2005
Project: Emergency School Feeding in Gaza
Location: Gaza Strip
This project will support UNRWA’s Gaza Emergency Program, which provides the poorest and most vulnerable Palestine refugees in Gaza with essential humanitarian assistance, most notably through life-sustaining food aid. The project will specifically address the needs of Gaza’s school children, who continue to suffer from a deteriorating socio-economic environment characterized by poverty and conflict. In the children’s daily life, this translates to acute food insecurity, lack of material resources to support their education, and often times a difficult learning environment at home which can contribute to poor academic performance. This project will provide daily meals to 3,859 students for a period of 104 school days. The Jerusalem Fund supported this project because the provision of a daily meal ensures that all students have had at least one nutritious meal per day, encouraging academic achievement, and alleviating the burden on families suffering from the negative impact of deepening poverty.
2010
Ahali Rafah Charitable Association
Project: Winter warm campaign
Founded: 2000
Location: Rafah, Gaza
This project focuses on helping affected people in Rafah area at the beginning of the winter season as most of the Palestinian families suffer from dire economical situation, frequent power outage and fuel shortage. Making winters cold brutal especially on children. The project will help bring some warmth to a number of families that has lost their homes. The Jerusalem Fund grant will distribute blankets on more than 100 poor families who affected in the last war in Gaza strip.
Al Nahda Association for Development and Growth (NADG)
Project: To provide food packages for poor families
Founded: 2007
Location: Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip
With the continuing Israel siege on Gaza and increased economic hardship, high unemployment and crumbling economy. The project will achieve many goals which will provide for poor families suffering from the blockade imposed on Gaza. During this military campaign, many families could not provide for their children. The recent statistics of the United Nations reports 80 percent poverty rate in the Gaza Strip—the highest it has ever been. The Jerusalem fund gave a grant to distribute food packages on the poorest families as identified by our local partners. Each family received a package of flour, cooking oil, canned meat, chicken stock, rice and tea to help alleviate some of the suffering.
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education- Haifa
Project: "Every Child Deserves to Start the School Year Respectfully"- supplying school bags for disadvantaged Palestinian children in Haifa.
Founded: 2001
Location: The city of Haifa
The Committee works to advance the Arab education in Haifa. As a result of an ongoing discrimination and disregard at both the state and Municipality levels, more than 60 percent off Arab children are living in poverty in Israel; moreover 50% of Arab children in the city of Haifa are poverty-stricken. The children's poor conditions drastically affect their schooling, their inability to afford basic school supplies prevent them from fully participating in school and suffer from the stigma of being different than other well-to-do students. This project was initiated in 2006 and the Jerusalem Fund has given to this project in previous years. This year is no different, A Jerusalem Fund grant supplied 200 Palestinian pupils were given an equal starting point for this school year, providing school bags, uniforms and other basic accessories.
Ibn-Khaldoun Society For Community Development
Project: Capacity building for kindergarten governess
Founded: 2002
Location: Northern Gaza District
No one discredits the importance of education for children, and further, the significance of providing a solid educational foundation especially during the formative years. Many Gaza kindergartens, however, are not meeting the needs of their students and cannot provide the resources the teachers need to adequately provide a foundational education for the children.
El-Nahda Association for Development and Growth (NADG)
Founded: 2007
Location: Northern Gaza District
The goal for El-Nahda Association was to identify 150 low-income families with toddlers. A grant from The Jerusalem Fund allowed for the purchase and distribution of health kits which included four cans of baby formula, shampoo, baby powder, diapers, ointment for skin treatment and a toy. Initiatives such as these increase the capacity of local organizations to meet the needs of the people of Gaza, especially the children.
2008
Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education in Haifa
Founded: 2001
Project: School Supplies for Palestinian Children in Haifa
Founded: Haifa
The Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education in Haifa supplied disadvantaged students with school supplies. As a result of an ongoing discrimination and disregard at both the state and municipality levels, over 60 percent of Arab children are living in poverty in Israel. Moreover 50 percent of Arab children in the city of Haifa are poverty-stricken. The children's poor conditions drastically affect their schooling and their inability to afford basic school supplies prevents them from fully participating in school. The Jerusalem Fund grant equipped 200 Palestinian pupils with an equal starting point for this school year providing school bags, uniforms and other basic accessories.
2004
Atta Services to the Aged
Founded: Ramallah
Atta Services seeks to address issues affecting elderly Palestinians, including their mental and physical health as well as social well-being. Atta Services' Meals on Wheels Program, for example, provides hot meals to the aged in the Ramallah area at least three times a week. This program is an integral part of Atta's outreach program, which also facilitates doctor visits, house cleaning, and visits by Atta Services' staff. In the midst of the harsh Israeli occupation regime, Atta proposed an emergency relief program to alleviate the critical conditions that Palestinians have had to face. Re-starting its Outreach Community Services after the invasion of the Israeli army into the already occupied West Bank, Atta focused on a triad of activities: (1) medical and psychological support; (2) food and sanitation; (3) home repairs and care. The Jerusalem Fund supports the breadth of its programs, but in particular, the Meals on Wheels program to at least 300 beneficiaries on a monthly basis.