Emergency Support for Palestinian Refugees (WB)

 Hello Friends!

Sharing with you another update from our emergency activities

During the holy month of Ramadan and Eif Al-Fitr, we increased our effort to help more families in need during this time. 

With your help, we added one more activity to our list, with the loss of jobs caused by the war, more families have become in need for support. 

In Karama, our team cooked meals for Iftar and distributed for disadvantaged families.

We also increased our cash for work activities, these activities serve two main goals;

• first providing a dignified living for employees in the program to earn a dignified income.
• second is to use this working opportunity to improve public areas through reconstruction, painting, and cleaning based on their professional and /or vocational background.

The selected public areas in Deheisha refugee camp are mainly local organization and centers, including Karama headquarters. Our headquarters needed some small renovations we are also preparing our kitchen for upcoming training activities for refugee women. We took this opportunity to employ some workers who have lost their jobs for seven months now to help us make the needed renovation

Other cities included: kindergartens schools’ especially, the streets around the children’s schools where the team found unprotected electricity wires around the school street which were a life hazard especially to children. 

Finally, we did another round of parcel's distribution in the last ten days of Ramadan, to support families to reduce their expenses as Eid Al-Fitr approached. 

We also faced some challenges 

1. Selection criteria: in this relief project the usuals standard for underprivileged families has worsened significantly compared to the previous relief projects.
2. Budget and Resources Restrictions:  Karama's team works to try and benefit as many families as possible. However, considering this is a crowd-funded relief project, Karama faced obvious budget restrictions.
3. The overall number of beneficiaries for each activity is restricted.
4. Due to the increase in prices of groceries, the contents of the food parcels were limited to a certain price limit and a specific amount. 

The challenges are there, but your support always helps us to make these small differences in people's lives. 

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