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Fighting Food Insecurity and Unemployment with Farms to Fosool
Empowering and supplying farmers to bring fresh and nutritional meals to children in Gaza Across Gaza, families are struggling with food insecurity and unemployment, making it difficult to provide adequate meals for their children each day. Without a properly nutritious diet, children often have poor concentration in school, and suffer from eating and sleeping disorders….
Farms to Fosool Provides Fresh Meals to Children in Gaza
Anera’s President & CEO Sean Carroll heads to one of the preschools that has been positively impacted by Anera. The program serves 12 preschools across Gaza, reaching 1,428 children. It hires 100 local farmers to provide fresh produce and 40 local women, who work overnight to prepare the breakfast meals fresh every morning. The program…
Farms to Fosool
Anera’s new Farms to Fosool program delivers healthy, fresh breakfasts to Gaza preschoolers every school day. We’re building on sustainable, long-term community partnerships connecting family farmers, working women and schools. Farmers participating in Anera’s greenhouse program earn income selling produce to women’s cooperatives. Members of women’s cooperatives earn an income preparing fresh, health breakfasts for…
Anera’s Programs Empower Women in Gaza Through Food Production
Daily life in Gaza has been completely upended since the start of the war. Earning an income is nearly impossible, markets barely function, cash is scarce and displacement has disrupted livelihoods across the territory. Yet despite these challenges, women are finding ways to support their families and communities. With Anera’s support, women in Gaza are…
Gaza
WHERE WE WORK Gaza Click here to edit the dot navigation module. This text is only for editing and will not appear after you publish the changes. Return to the top of the page. Gaza is being erased. Due to a punishing blockade imposed since 2007, about 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people relied on…
Palestinian Teachers’ Day
Palestine observes Teachers’ Day every year on December 14 to honor the crucial role of teachers in Palestinian society. Palestinian Teachers’ Day 2025 December 14, Palestinian Teachers’ Day, is an opportunity to honor the extraordinary educators in Palestine who continue their work despite unimaginable obstacles to educational access. Gaza’s education system has been devastated: over…
Anera in Deir Al Balah, Palestine
GAZA Anera in Deir Al Balah, Palestine Anera has deep roots and over 25 years of history in Deir Al Balah. Since the start of the war in October 2023, the governorates of Gaza have been catastrophically affected by Israeli military operations, leading to mass casualties, widespread displacement and near-total destruction of infrastructure. The blockade…
Health Education
OUR PRIORITIES Health Education Poverty and Conflict Make Good Health Difficult In refugee camps and vulnerable communities in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan families often have limited access to basic necessities for health and hygiene. Families living on low wages, or none at all, can’t afford essential items like toothbrushes and soap. In the crowded Syrian…
Education is Under Attack in Gaza
Part of a series on the impact of the war on all sectors of economic life within Gaza, Anera’s immediate response and plans for the future. Other posts cover livelihoods, housing, WASH, health and food production systems. The Gaza Strip, covering an area of 365 square kilometers, is home to a population of 2.3 million…
What I Saw in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon
I joined Anera in 2015. When I first started, I was taken aback at just how impressive and thoughtful Anera’s programs were (and still are!). The humanitarian and development needs in the communities where Anera works are frequently all too visible, and often it is tempting to rush in with stopgap measures to address acute distress.