Emergency Response
you can ensure UNRWA is there for palestine refugees in times of both calm and emergency.
Emergencies can strike at any moment, anywhere. UNRWA is always there for Palestine refugees and your generosity allows us the agility to respond to both sudden and ongoing emergencies.
Give now and help us continue delivering urgent assistance in an efficient and effective manner to refugees.
Food and income security
UNRWA provides food and income security interventions to promote sustainable livelihoods for Palestine refugees.
In the Gaza Strip alone, over 60% of households are moderately or severely food insecure. That means more than one million refugees rely on UNRWA to put food on the table for their families. In the year 2000, the number of people in need was just 80,000.
Why are people in Gaza becoming increasingly food insecure? Due to the de-development of Gaza caused by the Israeli and Egyptian imposed air, land, and sea blockade, people in Gaza are facing extreme poverty and high levels of unemployment.
Food assistance is the primary focus of our annual Ramadan campaigns. Beyond the month of Ramadan, Americans from coast to coast have gotten creative with their solidarity and hosted Gather for Gaza events as fundraisers to provide food for refugees.
UNRWA USA’s Virtual Ramadan Kitchen
In partnership with UNRWA USA and Mama's Palestinian Kitchen, Palestinian chefs and food bloggers cooked up Palestinian dishes to raise awareness and funds for refugee food assistance.
providing safe drinking water to UNRWA students in Gaza
Safe drinking water is not available on-site at UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip. See what generous supporters are doing to bring sustainable, environmentally-friendly, cost-effective solutions to UNRWA schools in Gaza.
Shelter repair and rehabilitation
UNRWA is Gaza’s gold standard organization when it comes to coordinating housing repairs, gliding over all the considerable political construction material hurdles while closely vetting every single material provider.
UNRWA eligibility professionals first verify proper ownership of a house. Then its engineers inspect residences to ensure habitability, itemize needed repairs, establish costs and quantities, and classify each case as minor—window, wall, roof damage, etc.—or major, general rebuilding.
With each bureaucratic step and supplier documented and in place, UNRWA directly deposits donor gifts into the accounts of approved families, who are responsible for overseeing work completion, or who have already carried out verified repairs through borrowing from family and friends.
The shelter repair program also provides employment to Palestine refugees through UNRWA and supply and contracting work.
