Our Aid Work in Gaza

ANERA has been known throughout Gaza since the early 1980s, when we began our relief aid efforts by working to stimulate job creation and develop sustainable projects across Gaza - in cities, villages and Palestinian refugee camps.

In 1985, ANERA opened an office in Gaza with just three staff members. Our initial relief aid projects focused largely on agriculture, a major source of livelihood in the region. The Gaza City Rainwater Conservation Project, a major project to improve water systems, started in 1989 and spanned five years. By the end of 1980s, ANERA had also computerized the Gaza Chamber of Commerce.

Throughout the 1990s, ANERA's humanitarian relief aid projects helped villages improve wells, cisterns and irrigation systems and also put much focus on Palestinian youth education.

Today, with the help of 18 full-time staff stationed in Gaza, ANERA's education initiative is focused on training preschool teachers, building classrooms and libraries, improving the well-being of children and all Gaza refugees, delivering health care aid supplies, and much more. ANERA is proud to have cultivated so many excellent humanitarian relief aid partnerships and achieved so much with the great people of Gaza.

Some recent highlights –

• Milk for Preschoolers serves nutrient-fortified milk and biscuits to Gaza children in need of relief aid during this time of crisis in Gaza

• Our education aid partnership with Atfaluna Society for the Deaf helps hearing impaired children learn in a supportive, stimulating environment and provides income-generating projects for Gaza adults

• Vitally needed health care supplies get to people who need them, despite border difficulties encountered during times of crisis in Gaza, through ANERA’s deliveries of in-kind humanitarian relief aid donations to 36 medical care institutions