Build Rooftop Gardens for Palestinian Families

More than two-thirds of Gaza’s two million residents are food insecure. Anera's innovative agricultural rooftop project installs rooftop gardens on family homes, including a hydroponic planting system that makes wise use of water. To get each family’s garden started, we provide seeds for herbs and lettuce as well as tomato, pepper and cucumber seedlings. Anera has installed 102 gardens in Palestine. In Palestine, 25% of the households are women-headed. These little gardens grow a lot of food very efficiently, allowing food-insecure families to produce what they need to eat and to barter or generate some income from selling surpluses. Some gardens can grow up to 2 tons of vegetables a year. Farming has been a way of life in the Middle East for millennia. For many families living in dense urban areas or 75-year-old Palestinian refugee camps, these rooftop oases represent a return to the land and to their roots.