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Gaza Families Enjoying the Productivity of Their Greenhouses
AGRICULTURE Gaza Families Enjoying the Productivity of Their Greenhouses Greenhouses are sustaining families in Gaza. Anera has helped 40 families in Gaza with essential tools and training to install greenhouses on their properties. Food for the Family Jalal has long struggled to find stable income to provide for his family of seven. They live in…
Gaza Greenhouses Give Farmers the Help they Need
AGRICULTURE Gaza Greenhouses Give Farmers the Help they Need Ruby-red, organic tomatoes are flourishing inside Gaza greenhouses. Now farmers can cook delicious dishes, share with their neighbors, and sell the surplus in the market. “We love watching our tomatoes grow and turn from green to red,” says Sabah Fayad as she looks up at her…
Family Farms and Greenhouses
OUR PRIORITIES Family Farms and Greenhouses Food insecurity and unemployment are major challenges in the three countries where Anera works. Since the blockade started in 2006, the economy of Gaza has been stagnating. Add to this intermittent bombing campaigns and a global pandemic and you have a recipe for food insecurity. Eight out of ten…
Solar Cookers & Greenhouses Ease Hardship of Poor Farmers in Gaza
AGRICULTURE Solar Cookers & Greenhouses Ease Hardship of Poor Farmers in Gaza Recent statistics published in Gaza estimate that nearly 60 percent of Gaza’s 1.8 million residents are food insecure. With Gaza unemployment at more than 40 percent, eight out of ten people in Gaza rely on food assistance to survive. Anera’s most recent food…
Livelihoods 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 housing, education, WASH, health and food production systems. Livelihood Recovery In Gaza, 57 years of occupation and 17 years of blockade have substantially affected the population’s economic well-being. In 2022 and the…
Palestine Children’s Day 2024
Palestine Children’s Day is observed on April 5th of every year. In 1995, Yasser Arafat started the commemorative day as a way of shedding light on the injustices and struggles that Palestinian children confront under occupation. On this day, Anera highlights the extreme difficulties faced by children in Palestine. In Gaza, where Israel is waging…
World Water Day
No one should be left behind when it comes to water. This year for World Water Day Anera is highlighting the situation in Gaza and poetry from Indigenous activists.
Does Aid to Gaza Actually Reach People in Need?
Does Aid to Gaza Actually Reach People in Need? Is aid actually getting into Gaza?In short, yes. The aid coming into Gaza is grossly insufficient but it is getting in. Debunking Myths Despite Anera’s daily reports of deliveries, we still regularly hear from people who are surprised to learn that any aid at all is…
Food Production Systems 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 education systems. Long-term damage to Gaza’s food production infrastructure points to the wide ranging scope of the crisis Since the war on Gaza began in October, reports…
A Primer on Gaza
The Gaza Strip is a 25-mile long stretch of coastal land (141 square miles, 365 square kilometers) that is home to a growing population of more than two million people. For such a small place, Gaza has a name everyone recognizes around the globe, but few really understand its history, culture and overall situation. Early…