Building Infrastructure in the West Bank

Girls at the Bardala Girls School, built by ANERA in the Jordan Valley.

Girls at the Bardala Girls School in the Jordan Valley.

Largely with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.N.'s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), ANERA helps upgrade and refurbish or builds new clinics, hospitals and schools servicing the poorest, most disadvantaged communities.

Schools

In a small farming community near Qalqiliya, with IFAD funds, ANERA built a new kindergarten for the village children. Read the story.

With USAID funding, from 2006 to 2009, ANERA has upgraded the water and sanitation facilities at 10 West Bank schools - rehabilitating and installing cisterns, adding toilets and drinking fountains and installing roof water tanks. Read about the schools renovated in the Bethlehem area.

To counteract problems with overcrowding of classrooms in the West Bank, ANERA has - since 2006 - built with USAID funds four new schools. Read about schools ANERA has built or renovated.

In 2007, with IFAD funding, ANERA constructed 53 new classrooms in 14 schools, impacting nearly 5,000 students in 16 communities across the West Bank.

Health Care Facilities

With USAID funding, from 2006 to 2009, ANERA upgraded the water and sanitation facilities at 11 clinics and 4 hospitals - improving sanitation units, installing sinks in emergency rooms, renovating cisterns and installing water tanks and water filters. Read about Rafidiya Hospital in Nablus and look at before/after pictures of our work at Jenin Hospital.

Date Modified: June 2011