How Anera’s Women Can Project Is Helping Women in Gaza Feed Families and Rebuild Lives
by Anera
Mar 19, 2026
In Gaza, where families face displacement, hunger and rising costs, Anera’s Women Can Project is providing both food assistance and income opportunities. What began during the height of the war and famine as a small effort with seven women has grown to support 62 women. Together, they prepare and distribute daily meals to families in…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day
by Anera
Mar 8, 2026
On this International Women’s Day 2024, we share the story of women who benefit from our rooftop garden projects in Lebanon. This is just one of our many projects built to empower women.
Read MorePalestinian Teachers’ Day
by Anera
Dec 11, 2025
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…
Read MoreVoices of Anera Staff from Gaza Through Two Years of WarÂ
by Anera
Oct 16, 2025
This collection highlights the words of our Gaza staff as they lived the war — setting up clinics, delivering water and finding small moments of relief, while trying to survive and care for their own families.
Read MoreLebanon’s Youth at the Frontlines of Recovery
by Sarah Hachem
Sep 19, 2025
by Sarah Hachem, Anera Education/Livelihood Program Manager in Lebanon Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of leading one of the most challenging and most rewarding projects of my career. In the wake of the war in Lebanon, and under UNICEF’s leadership, Anera’s teams mobilized quickly to deliver emergency relief and begin recovery. Today,…
Read MoreA Childhood Under Siege
by Anera
Aug 14, 2025
My Son is Growing Up Without Knowing His Father By Reem, a civilian in Gaza. My son Osama was born on October 3, 2023, in Gaza City — fragile, beautiful, and utterly unaware that he was taking his first breaths in what was about to become a war zone. I had left my husband and…
Read MoreGaza Starvation Deepens
Jul 30, 2025
Anera’s Gaza Director Yazdan El Amawi shares the latest on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where starvation is rising and basic services are collapsing.
Read MoreWhat Remains in Gaza When Normal Life is Gone
Jun 2, 2025
Yazdan El Amawi is the director of Anera’s Gaza office I have spent my entire life in Gaza, yet today I hardly recognize it. Over the last 20  months, and especially these past three, the familiar contours of home have been reduced to piles of concrete and rebar, with our sense of who we are…
Read MoreEarth Day Under Siege and the Fight to Keep Gaza Growing
by Naser Qadous
Apr 22, 2025
“This Earth Day, my thoughts are with Gaza: its land, its farmers, and the small signs of life that still push up from the soil.”
Read MoreGaza’s Survival Depends on Our Steadfastness
Mar 18, 2025
None of us wanted to believe this could happen again. After nearly two months of a fragile ceasefire, mass destruction and loss of life have returned to Gaza. It may feel familiar, but each new wave of violence is worse than the last — compounding the devastation and deepening the challenges. While much remains uncertain,…
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