GAZA: from emergency to recovery
Why donate for Gaza?
Donating to the Rapid Response for Gaza is essential to sustain our life-altering interventions and ensure they reach those who need them most.
GET INVOLVED
Our monthly updates delivered to your inbox
No spam, promise!
Latest from Gaza
Restoring smiles
Our mental health and psychosocial support efforts continue to expand across Gaza, addressing urgent psychological needs through recreational activities and evidence-based interventions. Our specialized teams continue providing group and individual psychosocial support for children and their caregivers in camps and shelters.
Visualize the future
In Gaza, we invited children to share their dreams during INARA’s safe-space mental health activities.
Through AI-generated visuals, their hopes came alive turning imagination into something they could see and feel.
Medical interventions in Gaza
Access to healthcare in Gaza has been severely compromised by conflict and the destruction of medical infrastructure across the Strip. Almost all healthcare facilities like hospitals and clinics have been damaged or destroyed, and the few that remain are difficult to reach or inaccessible to families with limited means of transportation, leaving many with few options for even basic treatment.
Rapid Response for Gaza
Our interventions prioritize a rapid response to immediate needs. However, each intervention is designed to transition from emergency aid to recovery, adopting a more sustainable approach to addressing the diverse needs of vulnerable children and communities. Based on our rapid emergency needs assessment, the following interventions can be implemented:
Medical Intervention
Currently: We have deployed our medical teams to provide outpatient services and basic medication to people affected by the war and displacement. The team, consisting of a doctor, nurse, and volunteer, is moving around the center, as well as the northern and southern areas of Gaza.
Moving forward, we will reactivate our medical clinics in high-need areas where no other organizations are providing medical interventions and continue our support. Additionally, our medical teams in Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan are prepared to receive medical evacuees and provide surgical and more complex medical treatments. We are currently mobilizing a medical mission and assessing the possibility of conducting surgical interventions inside Gaza.
Mental Health and Psycho-social Support
Currently: We will continue implementing recreational activities designed to address prevalent mental health conditions in the central, northern, and southern regions of Gaza, with plans to expand to other high-need areas.
Moving forward, and leveraging our in-house mental health expertise, we are expanding our intervention by establishing a specialized MHPSS team. This team will provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions, including individualized psychotherapy sessions for children and caregivers, to ensure comprehensive mental health support.
As part of our MHPSS programming, we are piloting adolescent empowerment initiatives such as reading clubs and dedicated safe spaces. These activities—aimed at adolescents, an often underserved population—will foster self-expression, creativity, and innovation. The goal is to create alternative livelihood pathways and promote economic empowerment.
Education in Emergencies (EiE)
Education in Emergencies (EiE): Our assessment indicates that while many organizations are currently providing education, there remains a shortage of essential supplies such as stationery and books. Our intervention will focus on addressing this gap.
Moving forward, as our EiE program has been successfully implemented in Egypt—providing both education and MHPSS in the same location—we plan to replicate this model in Gaza to help children resume their learning. Additionally, we aim to deliver accelerated learning programs to help children catch up on the education they missed during the war and return to age-appropriate classes.
Food & Non-Food Aid
Food Aid: We will continue providing food parcels, as this remains the most feasible approach to food assistance. Now that people are beginning to settle, they have the opportunity to prepare meals using the contents of the food parcels, which are designed to include essential nutrients. In addition to general food support for families, there is a significant need for infant formula and specialized food products to meet the nutritional requirements of young children and newborns.
Non-Food Aid: Families are returning to demolished areas, where there is an urgent need for hygiene and dignity items to prevent the spread of diseases in an already dire situation with limited medical facilities and services.
Clothing and Winterization Items
Clothing and Winterization Items: We have been in the process of transferring two containers of clothing since last year, after the border closed. These containers are on their way to Gaza, and we are hopeful they will enter and address the needs of a large number of children and families. We are also exploring the possibility of transferring shelter items such as blankets and mattresses to meet the needs of families, as winter has already started in Gaza.