Child Protection Palestine Project #15351

Maia Project: Clean Water for Children in Gaza

by Middle East Children's Alliance

Maia Project: Clean Water for Children in Gaza

Project Report | Sep 8, 2020
Maia Project: Clean Water for Children in Gaza

By Waed Abbas | Palestine Projects Assistant

Ghada with the children

Our amazing Maia Project Coordinator from Gaza, Ghada Mansi, does regular check-ups on the units installed to provide clean water for children in Gaza. The units could have more than one school or kindergarten conencted to them (some have even 4 schools that work together), and according to Ghada's latest check-up there are approximately 51 water purification units in schools and 21 units in kindergartens. In school children use these units per shifts and each shift would have an average of 1000 - 1100 sudents use the units for clean water, while the avergae of children in kidnergartens benefiting of the unit is 120 child per kindergarten.

As much as we're proud that the project is getting bigger and we're reaching more and more children, our work is far from done. Yet we know with your continous support we'll be able to reach more children in Gaza to provide clean and accessible water.

Children drinking clean water

Happy children :)

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May 12, 2020
Providing Clean Water During COVID-19 Emergency

By Ghada Mansi | Maia Project Coordinator

As Gaza braces for an outbreak of COVID-19, schools have closed. But the Maia Project units in kindergartens all over Gaza are continuing to provide clean drinking water for families during this crisis. Here's an update from MECA's Maia Project Coordinator:

Maia units still working to service the families in their neighborhoods. I spoke to people in Rafah, Al-Mosader village and Al-Shajaiya which are some of the most marginalized and poor areas in Gaza. Families are depending on Maia units to provide safe drinking water during coronavirus crisis. Most of people in Gaza Strip in general and especially in these marginalized areas are day laborers and they don't have a monthly salary so with the restrictions to stop the spread of the virus, their financial situation is very difficult. Maia units helped them to get free drinkable water.

Here are a few examples of families I spoke with who:

- Somaya is a single mother with 5 children living in Al-Mosader village she explained, "Every day I need 2 NIS [equivalent to 57 cents] to buy water and need 2 NIS transportation to reach the nearest desalination plant. It's difficult for me but during the coronavirus crisis it's more difficult because it's hard to find transportation and I don't have money to buy water. Now I get the water for free from Al-Mosader kindergarten which is next to my home."

-In Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, the water quality is especially bad and salty. The residents suffer from the water crisis during their daily lives. But for Mohammed and many other families, they are able to get free water daily from a Maia unit.

- Maram is 5 years old. She and her siblings live in Al-Shajaiya and they go to the nearby Al-Fawares kindergarten near their home every day to get clean drinking water.

The people in Gaza suffer from the water crisis which is caused by the Israeli occupation. With your contributions, we in Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) are working to provide clean, healthy water for Palestinian children by building Maia units in schools and kindergartens. This project helps alleviate the water crisis and though schools and kindergartens are closed, Maia units are contributing to helping with another crisis in Gaza.

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Dec 9, 2019
Schools damaged in Israeli attacks|New water units

By Josie Shields-Stromsness | MECA Program Director

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