Anera’s Gaza office is made up of seasoned education, health and development professionals. For 51 days in July and August, they – like everyone else in Gaza – feared for their lives as bombs rained down on their tiny strip of land.
No one felt safe. And yet, despite the bombs and the fear, Anera’s staff set aside their professional duties and responded to the crisis in whatever way they could be most useful. They took on a variety of emergency relief roles because they wanted to help the neediest in the devastated communities around them.
With the ceasefire, the full scope of what needs to be done becomes clearer every day. Anera’s staff is still distributing relief items like water, food, hygiene kits and more. But they have also resumed their professional roles, doing damage assessments and talking to families who have been displaced to see what more is needed for long-term rebuilding.
Ambulance picking up medicines at Anera’s Gaza city warehouse.
One father picks up a parcel of food from Anera filled with necessities like cooking oil, beans and pasta.
An Anera warehouse staff member moves one of many pallets of health care supplies and medicines, donated by AmeriCares.
Anera has 600 boxes of medicines and medical supplies in our Gaza warehouse ready for distribution as soon as conditions allow it.
A Gaza father signs up for Anera’s emergency food parcels during Gaza war.
Mostafa Al Ghosain delivers life-saving antibiotics to Gaza’s largest surgical hospital.
In Jerusalem, Anera loaded two trucks with enough water for more than 1,600 displaced families in Gaza.
A young boy enjoys some water that Anera just delivered to the school where he and his family have been taking refuge.
